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Monash University is embracing Google for all of its 58,000 students as it prepares to customise Google Apps for Education, including switching from its current in-house email system and encouraging students to use other online tools available through Google.
Vice-chancellor of Monash, Professor Edward
Byrne, said today that adopting Google email and applications was a
“clever solution to the ongoing challenge of providing accessible,
user-friendly and cost-effective e-communication tools to a growing
Monash community.”
Professor Byrne said that online communication is one of the dominant
mediums through which the university’s students and staff exchange
information, build knowledge and interact with the global community,
“so naturally we want to adopt the technology that will best ultilise
this medium.
“We want to give students the best online tools on offer in order to
boost their communication and information sharing capabilities and in
terms of our e-technology capital, we are giving the University plenty
of room to grow in the future.”
Australia’s largest university is going Google with Monash University
set to offer customised Google Apps for Education to all of its
students.
Professor Byrne said all of the 58,000 students would be given sign-up
details for their opt-in Monash gmails next month, along with
information about how they could use other online tools available
through Google Applications.
Monash vice-president (administration), Peter Marshall, said the move
reflected the university’s commitment to using the “best technology
available and to continually find better ways to facilitate quick,
efficient and versatile communication and information-sharing
capabilities.
According to Marshall, advantages of switching to Google Apps from the
current in-house email system included increased storage capacity (up
to 7GB from the current 250MB for each user), instant chat
functionality, the integration of email with online calendar and the
ability to work collaboratively on shared documents.
Marshall said there was also the potential to spread the benefits of
the new email system to Monash alumni, and the university was
investigating the potential of email for life and email-forwarding
services to its global alumni community.
Monash is Australia’s largest university with 58,000 student and 7,000
staff, and the research intensive university is a member of Australia’s
Group of Eight and has an international focus, with campuses in
Malaysia and South Africa, a graduate school under construction in
India and a research and teaching centre in Italy.
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