Desire2Learn

Confidential – June 4, 2012

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Agenda

• Introductions• Trunity Platform Overview– Platform Demo

• Examples of Trunity Content Collection– Re-Using Content

• Integration/Collaboration Possibilities• Product Strategies• Business Models• Technology Discussions

Introductions

Terry B. Anderton, Co-Founder & CEO

Dr. Joakim Lindblom, Ph.D., President & CTO

Dr. Kevin Eaton, Sr. Director of Development

George Bukow, Sr. Director of Product Mgmt.

ABOUT TRUNITY

Founded: August 2009

Headquarters: Newburyport, MA

Number of Paid Staff: 14 Employees + 6 Paid Consultants

Volunteer Staff:Additional 2,500+ SME’sfrom 160 universities & 60 countriesContributing Original Content

Trunity Platform: 1M page views/mo

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Trunity: Cloud-based Aggregation and Delivery of Knowledge Content for Learning and Research

DigitalCollections

Lesson Plans and Curriculum

Publishers

Journals and Research Papers

Enterprise

K-12 & Universities

Libraries

Learning Exchange

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2 Types of “Sites”

1. Repository (Collection)– Non-Ordered Structure– Content is stored in a Customizable Taxonomy

• Hierarchical• Advanced Search capabilities

– Crowd-Sourced– May be Public or Private

2. Virtual Textbook/Classroom– Ordered Structure– Creation methods

• Authored completely on platform• Curated from Repository Content• Imported from Digitally Published content

• All Content may utilize Publish Workflow (Peer-review)

Publishing Workflow

• Ensures Vetted Content• Manage & Maintain

Publicly Displayed Material

• May be implemented on either Public or Private Repositories

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Create/Edit Content

Submit Document

Review Process

Approved

RepositoryPost to Repository

Yes

No

The Trunity Platform – Site Demo

Trunity Knowledge Exchange - Public Collection Examples

Encyclopedia of Earth (eoearth.org)• Crowd-sourcing with quality control

• 2000 SMEs from 60+ Countries

• Citable resource approved by educators

• 1M unique visitors/mo, mostly education

• Resulted in the awarding of multiple NSF grant awards, including OCEAN OIL and CAMEL projects

CAMEL (camelclimatechange.org)• Seeded with $1.6 NSF grant

• Crowdsourcing) of Climate Change Mitigation and E-Learning teaching materials

• 30 top-tier universities, with and additional 60 coming on board

• Resource for educators approved by educators

• All contributions are made pro-bono

• For use as source materials to Trunity Learning™

• A model for the future of education

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Programming 101

Intro to JavaScript

Debugging with Firebug

Videos

Articles

Books

The Theory of DOM

Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript

Adobe buys Nitobi

Code injection, error throwing

Creating Virtual Textbooks & Courses

Programming 101

Intro to JavaScript

Debugging with Firebug

Videos

Articles

Books

The Theory of DOM

Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript

Adobe buys Nitobi

Code injection, error throwing

Trunity Cost Structure

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Learning Exchange

Author

Students

The Trunity Model

UniversityContent

Publisher

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UniversityBookstore

Creating Virtual Textbooks

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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Video 1

Chapter 6

News Article

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Trunity LMS(Tightly integrated with content)

• Lightweight Functionality– Exams/Surveys

• True/False & Multiple choice• Certification support• Import functionality (.csv)

– Assignments• Ability to upload documents

– Reporting & Tracking• Usage• Grades (export to .csv)• Activities

Virtual Textbook & LMS – Bringing it all TogetherChapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Video 1

Chapter 6

News Article

Chapter 7

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Assignment 3

Assignment 4

Quiz 1

Exam - Final

Exam – Midterm

Term Project

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Virtual Textbook & LMS – Bringing it all Together

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Video 1

News Article

Chapter 7

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Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Quiz 1

Assignment 3

Exam – Midterm

Assignment 4

Term Project

Exam - Final

Collaboration – Social

• Discussion Forums – Per Class• Comment threads are attached to content• Private messaging• Sites can be Hierarchical• Hierarchy Navigation is built into the platform• Trunity Fosters Collaboration Through Communities of

Content– Grade Level– Subject– School– Custom

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Discussion

Potential Collaboration/Partnership

1. Trunity Integrated in the D2L Environment

2. Light-weight Social LMS with Content – (D2L-Branded version of Trunity)

3. eReader – Technology Collaboration

4. Potential Business Models

5. Technology Integration Discussion

Potential Business Models

• K-12– Partnering with Publishers– D2L + Provide a subscription to publisher’s content via Trunity platform– Schools can create classes/virtual textbooks from publisher’s library

• Higher Education– Students purchase access through the D2L/Trunity platform– Royalty payments are distributed to all participants

• Users with pre-existing license with Publisher

Trunity API Basics

• Completely RESTful – CORS compliant for cross domain requests from Javascript

• Transmitted over HTTPS• Returns JSON representations of objects• Currently based upon user/password authentication and then

token-passing

ContentAPI

Endpoint

Mobile Reader

Trunity.Net

3rd Party Integrations

Library Services

User Management

Security

Publishing Flows

Business Rules

Trunity API Basics

• Each request is optionally accompanied by a user ID and an authorization code

• The authorization code is obtained via a login attemptGET /users/login?userId=105487&password=abcd {“UserId”: 105487, “AuthCode”: “feb291ee3a02caa791a9bfd55a14ed7d”}

Trunity API Basics

• The authorization code and user ID can then be passed to verify the user has access to the specified piece of content • (if it would otherwise be private, restricted, etc)

• GET /view/article/fd87982?userId=105487&authCode=feb291ee3a02caa791a9bfd55a14ed7d

• {“title”: “My Awesome Article”, “authors”: [{“authorId”: 193, “authorName”: “Kevin Eaton”}],“body”: “<p>This is a sample article</p>”}