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Toronto (CA), June 2023 - D2L, a global learning technology company, has announced a redesign of its Brightspace Community platform. The Brightspace Community site is the primary destination for D2L's community of clients, partners, users, developers, and D2L staff to find and share product and industry resources and connect with others through membership and discussion forums.

Potsdam (GER), May 2023 - In April 2021, a consortium coordinated by the University of Potsdam began developing the Bildungsraum Digital (Digital Learning Space) project, or BIRD for short. In the context of the German government’s Digital Education Initiative, BIRD is the first of four prototypes for a future national education platform and makes possible the testing of structures for data exchange, the interoperability of various platform types, and the implementation of standards. Prof. Ulrike Lucke, the BIRD project’s head, will elucidate the status of the National Education Platform, 24 May at 15.00 as part of the Digital University session at LEARNTEC.

Herrsching (GER), May 2023 - Bernhard Drees is Head of the Department of Work Organization & Social Sciences at the Bavarian University of Public Service. His courses are based on an unusual methodological mix: "The inverted classroom meets agile competence orientation". This is also his topic at the "university@LEARNTEC" on 23 May at 10:30 on the Focus Stage in Hall 1.

London (UK), April 2023 - ARuVR, a multi-award winning end-to-end, enterprise-grade Extended Reality (XR) training platform, has announced a three year partnership with City, University of London to provide its award-winning technology and expertise to engineering, computer science, and applied mathematics undergraduate and postgraduate students within the School of Science and Technology. The endeavour will be the UK's largest bespoke augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and metaverse design training centre.