Google Offers Apps for Education to Philippines Universities

Google’s (News - Alert) education applications have been changing the way that people learn using technology all over the world. It appears that one new area of the world that is getting the apps is the Philippines. The search engine giant has just announced the “Schools Gone Google” project. This particular project is giving the 16 biggest universities in the Philippines access to the Google Apps for Education.

These applications are actually a suite that includes hosted email and Google Drive. Drive is the search engine company’s answer to Microsoft (News - Alert) Office and the programs are often offered free of charge to various colleges and universities. Thanks to giving away the programs for free, almost every college in the small nation will be able to gain access to these applications.

When talking about using the Google Apps for Education, Google actually allows for the inbox having 30GB of inbox space (which is twice the normal 15GB of space) Google also allows for 5GB of free Drive storage, and there is an option to add as much as 16TB of storage for each user. This means that a student could conceivably store every single homework assignment they do on the cloud.

This kind of move is beneficial to a nation like the Philippines. While they certainly have laptops and tablets, quite a bit of schoolwork, including tracking grades and taking down lesson notes and plans are still done on regular old pads of paper. Google Drive will allow for teachers to store everything they need on the Drive while also being able to quickly and easily collaborate with colleagues.

Class projects between numerous students will also be that much easier to work on. Google apps allows for a presentation style document to be made in the vein of Microsoft. That could make sure the students who may not feel like they have enough time to get together will be able to still put their presentation together in time for deadlines.