(Cross-posted on the Google Student Blog ) We had a busy summer here at Google interacting with students through a wide variety of scholarsh...
Sesame Street comes to Google: Improving our education system at the Breakthrough Learning forum
If you could reinvent the American education system, what would you do? It's a question we think about a lot here at Google. This week w...
Five years of introducing students to open source
We've just concluded our fifth Google Summer of Code , our flagship global program to introduce college and university students to open...
The Fighting Irish: a Google Apps Education success story
We love hearing from schools using Google Apps Education Edition , especially when it's helped them save money, gain back time or make s...
Two views from the 2009 Google Faculty Summit
(Cross-posted from the Google Research Blog ) We held our fifth Computer Science Faculty Summit at our Mountain View campus last week. Abou...
Announcing the 2009 Google Online Marketing Challenge winners
This year we held the second Google Online Marketing Challenge — a global university competition, launched last year , that gives undergra...
Google heads to grade school: New resources for K-12 teachers and students
We use the Internet all the time: at home, at work (especially at Google!), on the move, and, increasingly, at school. We believe that the I...
Free webinar: Google Apps Education Edition
Around the world, schools and universities continuously face the difficult challenge of reducing costs while improving the quality of educat...
Congratulations Eric Yang, winner of the 2008-2009 National Geographic Bee
1. Timis County shares its name with a tributary of the Danube and is located in the western part of which European country? 2. Name this ea...
More tools and tricks for teachers
Hello teachers, We hope that your desk was deluged with a bunch of shined-up apples this morning as a thank you from your students for all t...
Google's 2009 EMEA Faculty Summit
Our Zurich office was proud to host Google's second annual EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions) Faculty Summit last month. Ei...
Schools get the "App"titude across the globe
Since the launch of Google Apps Education Edition in October 2006, millions of people at thousands of schools in more than 100 countries ha...
Students share their Apps stories
You might remember reading about our trip " App to School ," when we hit the road in our retro biofuel bus to visit ten universit...
The latest on Google Apps for Education
It was exactly two years ago at the EDUCAUSE conference that we first announced our free Google Apps offering for educational institutions...
Information poverty
Today is Blog Action Day , an annual event that rallies blogs around the world to post about a common cause. This year's issue up for di...
This year's Faculty Summit
Recently we hosted more than 90 distinguished faculty members from roughly 60 North American universities to the Googleplex for the 4th Annu...
Appy trails
A few weeks ago we announced our adventurous (some call it crazy) plan to drive across the US in an eco-friendly retrofitted 1970s bus, vis...
Back to school with more than 1 million users worldwide
Google Apps is rapidly gaining momentum in education. We now have more than a million people on campuses worldwide actively using Google...
Students surf their way to success
Early on in my career at Google I was approached by a former professor of mine, Jamie Murphy, who was eager to give his students hands-on ex...
Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning
Management guru Peter Drucker noted that companies attracting the best knowledge workers will "secure the single biggest factor for com...