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These universities will be part of the group created by Google for Spain called Forum of Universities in the Cloud (FUN)
More than 400,000 new users are added to the program of Google Apps for Education including more than 11,000 are in the Region of Murcia
Google presented today in Madrid Universities Forum in the Cloud (FUN) at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain.
Thirteen universities and Spanish business schools, including Catholic University of Murcia, is part of this group which aims to create a space in which all universities adhered to share their codes of good practice and ideas as well as helping to keep the contact between them in a fun and simple.
The agreement reached by Fun with Google, will provide students, faculty and staff, a series of customizable tools to work together and students can learn most effectively.
This set of tools including email, word processors, communication tools and private file storage and sharing, setting up a 'virtual desktop' which increases the current space and services e-mail account of the students and will be accessible to both through Internet and mobile devices.
In the case of the Catholic University of Murcia, more than 11,000 users (including teachers, students and administrative staff) start using the educational version of Google Apps.
The UCAM with Google has set up for this course UCAM Apps, a dynamic package of tools that allow community members UCAM multiply their performance at all levels through a proactive working environment coordinated virtual network.
From the Catholic University explains that the implementation of UCAM Apps represents a giant leap of quality, both in the management of internal operating processes, as in the application and development of various systems of teaching, learning and research methodologies , through reciprocal information flow between students, faculty and staff specializing in management tasks.
Technical Director of Computer Services and the project UCAM, Sergio León, stated that UCAM Apps will be an improvement in students' work between groups.
"It's a commitment to teamwork and collaborative tools, as stated in the ESS" has qualified.
"Cloud computing is a technology spread throughout the world, especially in the U.S., where over 60% of the top universities have already adopted the technology of Google cloud. Europe is moving fast in this area. We are pleased to announce that Spain, together other
pioneering countries like the UK and Ireland is leading the adoption of cloud technology.
With this innovative group of universities, we can say that over 19% of all universities in Spain have taken a step forward in innovation, "said William Florance director of Google Apps for Education in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa ).
With the creation of this group Google may establish a direct and simultaneous contact with the universities to explain the operation of such applications and inform new developments in Google Apps.
The 400,000 new users of these universities are in addition to over 15 million users already use Google Apps for Education worldwide.
Google Apps tools to be implemented will enable universities and business schools to work in a 100% web or what come to be known cloud computing.
Spain is the only country in Europe where 19% of universities are in the Google cloud.
The presentation was attended by the Secretary General of Innovation, Juan Tomás Hernani Burzaco, Juan Junquera Earlier, Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information Society, representatives of the 13 educational institutions and William Florance, director of Google Apps for Education EMEA.
About the Catholic University of Murcia
Following the words of his Holiness Pope John Paul II spoke in his Apostolic Constitution "Ex Corde Ecclesiae" of August 15, 1990, reminding the bishops a special responsibility to promote Catholic universities and aware of the importance of the presence of Christians in the academic and cultural life of our time and especially the third millennium, sits the initiative of the Fundación Universitaria San Antonio de Murcia promote the creation and operation of the UCAM.
In response to this call of the Church, was born the first Catholic University, promoted and founded by laity, with the consent of the Diocesan Bishop and canonically erected in accordance with Article 3.3.
the Holy Father's Apostolic Constitution.
The Catholic University San Antonio (UCAM) is intended as a fundamental objective of an institutional guarantee the presence of Christians and evangelical teaching vocation in academia, science and culture of our time, with the desire to provide a valid tool that answers from Faith to major problems and issues of contemporary society, deeply rooted Christian and thereby contributing to cultural development and progress, social and human of the same.
About Google Apps for Education
Google Apps for Education is a free solution for communication and collaboration applications to web-based colleges and universities.
Google Apps includes Gmail (webmail services), Google Calendar (shared calendaring), Google Docs (documents, spreadsheets and presentations online), Google Video (10 GB free space to share videos securely and privately) and Google Sites (create a team website with videos, images, and documents embedded gadgets) as well as administrative tools, customer service and access to APIs for integrating Google Apps with existing IT systems.
For more information: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/es/edu/index.html
Source: UCAM
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