Online education and cloud computing collide in TO startup

Every once in a while, industries collide and create immense opportunity. It happened a few years ago with smartphones, when increasingly more powerful computing was enhanced by the explosive growth of the wireless industry.

Desire2Learn Inc. says, is staring into a ?perfect storm? of two industries converging: cloud computing and the enormous technological revolution taking place in the education sector. ?We have a really hot market, at a time when it?s going to explode,??

D2L has become one of the largest global providers of advanced software and mobile applications for the education industry. The Kitchener, Ontario-based company reaches about eight million people around the world every day with programs that allow students to submit assignments online, mobile applications that enable them to stream lectures, and tools that make it possible for teachers to return assignments with audio criticisms attached to the electronic file. This feedback from teachers is often faster and more useful for the student than a written comment. Here is the complete story?

Source: http://dastikop.blogspot.com/2012/12/online-education-and-cloud-computing.html

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