D2L has been chosen by University of Otago, New Zealand’s oldest premier university, to help support all its programmes, online short courses and staff training.
The University of Otago found D2L Brightspace was the winner to replace its legacy platform Blackboard, leveraging the reimagined D2L Creator+ to help instructors create more high-quality learning experiences, powered by H5P Premium. It is also using the powerful D2L Lumi, D2L’s AI-native offering within D2L Brightspace, designed to help save instructors time, create more compelling content and enable a more highly accessible learning experience.
“We are excited to partner with D2L and become the first New Zealand university to use Brightspace as its Learning Management System. We believe the Brightspace platform will meet our needs with opportunities for enhancing our learning and teaching with the features available in Creator+ with H5P,” said Professor Tim Cooper, Dean of Learning and Teaching, University of Otago.
“By choosing D2L Brightspace, Otago is helping to enhance its innovative learning environments to better empower students, faculty and communities with more transformative educational experiences.
“We’re thrilled to help support their mission to shape a brighter future,” said John Baker, President & CEO, D2L.
University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka is Aotearoa New Zealand’s oldest university and provides a research-led learning environment.
The university has campuses in five main centres throughout New Zealand – with the campus in Dunedin and others in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Invercargill.
