Google Apps for Education to Reach 10 Million Malaysians in New Education Program

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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced yesterday that that its Google Apps will be used for educational purposes by 10 million Malaysian students, teachers, and parents. Furthermore, the government will also ‘deploy’ Chromebooks to be used in the country’s primary and secondary schools. VentureBeat believes that the government chose Chromebooks because of their relative affordability. All of this is to support Malaysia’s 12-year education blueprint.

The government plans to provide 4G internet access, a virtual learning platform, and a minimum 10:1 ratio of students to computers to all 10,000 schools in Malaysia. Those Chromebooks will definitely help the students get more familiar with computers, and of course will also make sure Google is very much central to people’s lives starting in the early school years.

Google Apps for Education has gained quite a few partners across the Asia Pacific region in the past few years. Among them are Thailand’s Khon Kaen University, Indonesia’s Petra University, the Philippines’ Commission for Higher Education, Singapore’s Ministry of Education, and India’s University of New Delhi faculty of management. There are currently 3,000 schools worldwide that are using Chromebooks for educational purposes.

(Source: Google via VentureBeat)