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Google Classroom for the Online Classroom: An Assessment
Brown, Myra Cook
Distance Learning, v15 n3 p51-56 2018
One educational technology that is worth a look is Google's G-Suite for Education (GS-E). Google has invested a great deal in GS-E and publicizes it as a full-fledged member of Google's family of suites. GS-E comprises Classroom, which acts as the course hub, while the entire suite of other Google products such as Docs, Calendar, Sheets, Hangouts, Chat, and Gmail, support and amplify Google Classroom, as needed. To assess GS-E's merits as a tool for an online course, the author created a module for an introductory online technical communication course. Creating a course module provides a representative experience in course design, which, in turn, can be scaled to include an entire course. Further, because Google Classroom sits at the center of the suite and the other Google tools are pulled into it as needed, using Classroom to create a course module can serve as good litmus test for the entire suite. In this article, author reviews the functionality of the three tabs of Classroom ABOUT, STUDENTS, and STREAM, as well as GS-E's delivery platforms.
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Computer Software Evaluation
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