Colleges test the limits of cloud

by Zoe Alsop, CNBC

Thanks to cloud computing software, colleges are now able to stretch the capacity of the virtual lecture hall to include thousands of students around the world. “The cloud is critical to what we do,” says Anant Agarwal, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CEO of EdX, a nonprofit open-source platform for MOOCs founded by Harvard and MIT. When Edx launched two years ago, Agarwal expected 1,000 students to enroll in his course on circuits. 155,000 signed up. “Because of cloud computing, with a few keystrokes, we were able to scale up,” he said.

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