Talk:Desire2Learn

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Most recent anonymous edit has the comment "(Corrected founding history - company actually had two founders (search for "Anil Sabharwal Desire2Learn" and you'll find a number of older references to both of them when the company first started))" ---- No you don't. All the references to Anil Sabharwal are sourced from Wikipedia?!?

mattclare (talk) 02:43, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, not true:

^[1] Desire2Learn was founded in 1999 by John Baker and Anil Sabharwal, both recent grads from the University of Waterloo. What began in Kitchener as the brainchild of two bright students has grown into a leading edge e-learning solutions company whose software is used at more than 450 institutions around the world.

^[2] Desire2Learn.com is an Internet education company started by two University of Waterloo graduates, Anil Sabharwal and John Baker. The company has contracts across North America, including a deal to develop the University of Guelph’s online MBA programme. In an interview with the National Post, Sabharwal spoke out for the quality of online education: “If we are not offering the ultimate courses and the ultimate educational experience for the students out there, then in essence, we’re hindering ourselves.” — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.85.175 (talk) 07:06, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Article Creation Process

There are a number of items in this entry that are in need of update (the company's name, for example). I work at D2L and would appreciate some advice on the most transparent way to make these updates.

Williamson.danny (talk) 19:45, 4 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I second that this article is reviewed.

McFishing (talk) 02:38, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I move to declare this reviewed!

mattclare (talk) 17:33, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

McFishing and mattclare: If you want feedback and approval, use the seek feedback on your new article link in the notice. Stuartyeates (talk) 05:28, 21 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi all, I my opinion as someone that works in the industry (Matt Clare http://www.brocku.ca/ctlet/about-ctlet/staff ), authored the CEO John_Baker_(entrepreneur)'s article and is NOT a client, the article about Desire2Learn is need. They are a big company in the North American's eLearning industry and were involved in the largest patent infringement lawsuit in the industry. Blackboard Inc. sued Desire2Learn, technically won, and then on March 25, 2008, the US patent office issued a non-final action rejecting all 44 claims of Blackboard's patent.^[3]. In fact this article is linked from Blackboard_Inc.#Blackboard_legal_issues.

This article needs more information about the patent lawsuit, as it does read a little like promotion material. I'll look around.

13:50, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi,

I feel like I'm Alice in the rabbit hole! I've left a message for PhantomSteve indicating why I don't think the page should be deleted. I'm waiting for a response. In the interim, I followed the instructions that had previously been provided by PhantomSteve to include the "hangon" tag. I await your response and guidance.

Thanks! WildWomenWin (talk) 08:52, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://www.kitchener.ca/en/businessinkitchener/SupportingAndGrowingYourBusiness.asp
^ http://mediumutm.ca/backissues/Archives/November13/feature_story_2.htm
^ Rejection of Blackboard's patent Retrieved November 11, 2008

Origin of Company's Strange Name?

Do any of you dudes know where the company's name came from? I am not an English speaker (or whatever they speak in Canada ), but I always thought that in a phrase like "desire 2 [sic] learn," the "to" is a preposition and spelled out as such. In this case there appears to have been some sort of confusion with the homonym. It would seem that this confusion is significant and should be included in the article. Like I said, my English is garbage and there may be some strange Canadian dialect that they are deploying, but the strange name should be explained in the entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.14.36.165 (talk) 22:28, 4 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2013 outage

Currently, there is information in this article about a service outage experienced by this company. Such information doesn't belong in an encyclopedia article unless it is something of enduring interest that significantly adds to a reader's understanding of the topic. This is not a news article and I propose removing the material pending further discussion. ElKevbo (talk) 19:29, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hearing no objection, I'm going to remove the information. If someone really thinks it belongs in the article, please (a) discuss it here and (b) use this as a better source than the ones I am removing. ElKevbo (talk) 15:54, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

University of Waterloo Digital Experience Innovation Community

Another editor is insisting that this article include a mention of "The Digital Experience Innovation Community at the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus [which] was established on the Desire2Learn platform." I don't see how this adds to a reader's understanding of this topic and remain convinced that it should be removed. Can other editors please comment or contribute to this discussion? Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 12:00, 7 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.kitchener.ca/en/businessinkitchener/SupportingAndGrowingYourBusiness.asp

[2] ttp://mediumutm.ca/backissues/Archives/November13/feature_story_2.htm

[3] Rejection of Blackboard's patent Retrieved November 11, 2008

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