TLT CoffeeRead: Google, Microsoft woo higher ed with free online services

Posted on August 1, 2008 
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Google, Microsoft woo higher ed with free online services

What do you all think the advantages/drawbacks to these kind of partnerships for higher ed?

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2 Responses to “TLT CoffeeRead: Google, Microsoft woo higher ed with free online services”

  1. dave on August 1st, 2008 8:34 am

    Under the circumstances, using an internet based, commercially developed service seems logical. If circumstances were different, a major east coast research institution like ours would have developed their own web based services. If we become renters of technology, what do we do with all of our technologists? Do they get jobs with Google or do we find them cubicles where they can surf out their final days??

  2. Jim Jansen on August 2nd, 2008 6:31 am

    I partnered with Google for the Google Online Marketing Challenge (GOMC)- http://www.google.com/onlinechallenge/2008winners.html!

    Great experience for me and the students. Got a lot of good press and one of the winning Penn State team in The Google Online Marketing Challenge – http://live.psu.edu/story/33562.

    So, I am fine with the whole concept. Apple has been doing it for years at the K12 level.

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