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: BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily WeblogGoogle promotes education apps
BoardBuzz has witnessed the growth in educational software. In 2009, U.S. schools and colleges spent an estimated $4.6 billion on educational software.
Bloomberg is reporting that Google is working with educational software companies to create a marketplace for online learning programs.
Already educational games and instructional tools are being offered in the Google Apps Marketplace, Google’s online store that launched in March. Google is now hoping to expand this by creating a marketplace just for education and getting more educational software developers involved.
“If we can provide access to education apps to our 10 million users in thousands of schools, then that would be a win all around,” said Obadiah Greenberg, Google’s business development manager for education, in an interview with Bloomberg.
Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on December 28, 2010 (boomark / email).
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