Software Evangelist Wants to Put Learning Management Software in the Cloud

Chronicle of Higher Ed
Feb. 26

Adrian Sannier knows what it’s like to place big bets on outsourcing data to the cloud. When he was a technology officer for Arizona State University’s office of the president, he was one of the first university leaders to shift control of student email to Google’s free service. His wager paid off: He said at the time that he saved $400,000 and brought in new features faster than his staff ever could. Now hundreds of colleges have followed that lead. Mr. Sannier recently left academe for the software industry, and he says his new product, OpenClass, can use the cloud to transform learning-management systems that run college-course Web sites and digital grade books.

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