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The Ultimate Guide to Instructional Design

Our experts break down what instructional design is, what instructional designers do and share tips for creating engaging, inclusive educational content that learners will love.

  • 9 Things to Consider Before Making an LMS Switch

    About the eBook Your LMS functions as the heart of your academic institution—it not only hosts and manages learning material, but also helps students to successfully hit learning outcomes. However,…

  • SNHU turns student data into student success

    How SNHU Turns Student Data Into Student Success Ensuring student success has become one of the biggest challenges for colleges and universities. With the adoption of education technology, higher education…

  • Make Data-Driven Decisions with D2L Brightspace

    Now more than ever, instructors need easy-to-action, on-time information that supports student growth without breaking the bank. Get ready to move beyond the limitations of a learning management system (LMS)…

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Removing Economic Barriers to Education

Pima Community College serves a diverse community of learners that rely upon online connectivity to achieve their academic success. As such, they are deeply committed to their students by discovering innovative ways to lower costs while continuing to provide a high quality education to students, regardless of the barriers they face, whether economic, location, or personal schedule.

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Why SNHU chose Brightspace as their LMS

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is at the forefront of online learning. In fact, they have been named the #1 Most Innovative University in the north, three years running. While they support more than 3,000 on-campus students, they also have over 80,000 online students. To manage the current and anticipated growth, it became clear that SNHU needed to upgrade their LMS. Their existing legacy product simply wasn’t flexible enough, nor able to grow at the pace that SNHU required.

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GAAD: The Important Story of D2L’s Accessibility Interest Group

D2L’s Accessibility Interest Group has helped solve complex problems through a deeper understanding of accessibility.

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GAAD: How Virtual Reality Can Transform the Way People with Disabilities Learn

VR can make the impossible possible for people with disabilities, but only if environments are made accessible.

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Preparing students for long-term career success and increasing engagement with Brightspace Parent & Guardian

Providing students with more opportunities to learn, to further their education into post-secondary, and to connect with their courses in a more meaningful way is of major importance to the SNP STEAM Academy. Created as an extension of Six Nations Polytechnic, the STEAM Academy provides a secondary-school education in a culturally diverse community, with a strong focus on connecting students to careers in the technology industry. Students can attend this program entirely for free. Using a blended learning approach, students can earn their Ontario Secondary School Diploma and earn college credits towards their college diploma within a 5-year period. And this is what makes them unique.

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Empowering Instructors to Teach the Way They Want to Teach

One of their main drivers is to provide freedom and autonomy to their students seeking an online education. They provide the technology tools to enable students to access course material, classroom discussions, and homework while doing so at their own pace. They were looking for an education technology solution to help them optimize the building and maintenance of their 10,000 course sites a year.

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What is Universal Design for Learning?

UDL in learning is about designing learning environments that are accessible to and effective for everyone.

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What is Inclusive Design for Learning?

This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, learn about how to design learning experiences for human diversity.

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