Case Study: Desire2Learn achieves seamless mobile, in-platform e-textbook commerce with Elastic Path

E-learning Leader Deploys Mobile-Enabled Commerce Focused on the Digital Experience

Desire2Learn (now D2L) is a cloud-based learning management company serving hundreds of institutions and millions of learners. Although its Learning Suite provided comprehensive course tools and mobile access, students still had to buy textbooks outside the platform, creating a fragmented experience and a missed revenue opportunity for the company and its publishing partners.

Desire2Learn chose Elastic Path Commerce to commerce-enable its Binder tablet app and Binder Shop HTML5 storefront, launching the consumer-facing business in five months with Elastic Path Professional Services, AWS hosting, and integrations for account entitlements and tax processing. The solution lets students buy or rent e-textbooks in-app (with self-service digital returns and PayPal support), created publisher revenue-share opportunities, reduced call-center volume, and delivered a seamless, mobile-first digital learning experience.

Desire2Learn

Terry Markle

Ecommerce Product Manager