Dear Commons Community,

For those of us who follow the activity of online software providers, Desire2Learn announced yesterday that it was renaming its learning-management system, which will now be called Brightspace. It will also be adding several new features including game-based learning. In addition, the company said it was teaming up with IBM to improve Desire2Learn’s predictive analytics and with Microsoft to add a Windows 8 mobile app for e-books to Desire2Learn’s offerings.

This seems to be a good move for Desire2Learn in its competition with BlackBoard, Inc.

Tony