Google Play for Education Challenges Apple’s Dominance in the Classroom

This stuff is not for gamers but for the education of children and this is in fact a good step taken by the Google crew. By this, the schools would start and prefer to distribute apps, videos and books on the student’s tablet. With this, schools will be able to order large number of purchased videos, apps and books from the store so that these can be put in use for interactive study. This is expected to bring a bright class content on Android tablets in school while the tech giant has plans to set innovative educational apps for teachers and students.

Categorization of the apps will be on grounds of the curriculum, grades and standards providing the perfect content for the students of a particular class. For example, you can find math apps appropriate for kindergarteners. The development crew of Google is building strong networks of K-12 schools in order to grant service with ‘Google Apps for Education’ and in thought, the nexus tablet is likely to be a suitable one for this purpose. By this fall, the education-based Android app store is likely to launch while Google will start accepting the submissions of apps this summer. As a matter of fact, guidelines via developer.android.com/edu will be posted by Google.

Google Play for Education is to work against the entry of Apple into the classrooms as the latter had launched iBooks 2 for textbooks, iBooks Author and iTunes U app accessible to K-12 educators last year. According to Google, hitherto in 2013, it had about 900 million activations on Android which is up from the 100 million it announced at I/O two years back. There are more than 700 billion people on this planet and Google has initiated the plan to reach all the way long.