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1 Desire2Learn Confidential – June 4, 2012 (confidential – by permission only)

2 Agenda Introductions Trunity Platform Overview – Platform Demo Examples of Trunity Content Collection – Re-Using Content Integration/Collaboration Possibilities Product Strategies Business Models Technology Discussions

3 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’s from 160 universities & 60 countries Contributing Original Content Trunity Platform: 1M page views/mo (confidential – by permission only)

4 Trunity: Cloud-based Aggregation and Delivery of Knowledge Content for Learning and Research Digital Collections Lesson Plans and Curriculum Publishers Journals and Research Papers Enterprise K-12 & Universities Libraries Learning Exchange (confidential – by permission only)

5 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)

6 Publishing Workflow Ensures Vetted Content Manage & Maintain Publicly Displayed Material May be implemented on either Public or Private Repositories (confidential – by permission only) Create/Edit Content Submit Document Review Process Approved Repository Post to Repository Yes No

7 The Trunity Platform – Site Demo

8 Trunity Knowledge Exchange - Public Collection Examples Encyclopedia of Earth (eoearth.org)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)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 (confidential – by permission only)

9 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

10 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 $2 $5 $2 $1 $2 $3 $4 $3 $2 $1 $4 $0 $2 $5 $2 $3 $4 $3 $2 $4 $0 $25 $35 $25 (confidential – by permission only)

11 Learning Exchange Author Students The Trunity Model University Content Publisher $$ $ $25 $ $ $ (confidential – by permission only) University Bookstore

12 Creating Virtual Textbooks (confidential – by permission only) Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Video 1 Chapter 6 News Article Chapter 7 Chapter 8

13 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

14 Virtual Textbook & LMS – Bringing it all Together Chapter 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 (confidential – by permission only)

15 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 (confidential – by permission only) Assignment 1 Assignment 2 Quiz 1 Assignment 3 Exam – Midterm Assignment 4 Term Project Exam - Final

16 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 (confidential – by permission only)

17 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

18 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

19 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

20 Content API Endpoint Mobile Reader Trunity.Net 3 rd Party Integrations Library Services User Management Security Publishing Flows Business Rules

21 Trunity API Basics Each request is optionally accompanied by a user ID and an authorization code The authorization code is obtained via a login attempt GET /users/login?userId=105487&password=abcd {“UserId”: 105487, “AuthCode”: “feb291ee3a02caa791a9bfd55a14ed7d”}

22 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=feb291e e3a02caa791a9bfd55a14ed7d {“title”: “My Awesome Article”, “authors”: [{“authorId”: 193, “authorName”: “Kevin Eaton”}], “body”: “ This is a sample article ”}


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