D2L

Desire2Learn [D2L]
Company type	Public
Traded as	TSX: DTOL
Industry	Educational Technology; Learning Management Systems; Content Authoring Systems; Educational Cloud Software;
Founded	1999
Founder	John Baker
Headquarters	Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	John Baker (CEO); Stephen Laster (President); Jeremy Auger (Chief Strategy Officer); Anna Forgione (Chief Legal Officer); Josh Huff (CFO); Amy Clark (CPO); Lee Poteck (CRO); Brian Finnerty (CMO);
Products	Brightspace, Creator+, Performance+, D2L Lumi, Achievement+, Course Merchant, Services, Cloud, Support
Brands	Brightspace, Open Courses
Number of employees	1,200+ (2024)
Website	www.d2l.com

D2L (or Desire2Learn) is a Canada-based global software company with offices in Australia, Brazil, Europe, India, Singapore, and the United States.

D2L is the developer of the Brightspace learning management system, a cloud-based software suite used by schools, higher educational institutions, and businesses for online and blended classroom learning. The company is also the developer of Open Courses, a Massive Open Online Course platform.