Why Google Apps for Education? Where Stand Pakistan?
Google Apps Education Edition is a free suite of hosted communication & collaboration applications designed for schools and universities.
Google Apps Education Edition is coming to an open source learning management system near you. Moodlerooms, a Moodle partner, is launching a new enhancement to the open source LMS in collaboration with search giant Google to provide access to the application suite using a single sign-on.
Google Apps Education Edition is the widely deployed hosted application suite that includes communications tools like as Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Talk; collaboration apps, such as Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Labs (for software code review); and various administration features and APIs for integration with existing systems.
In Pakistan the following universoities and institutes are using Google Apps
The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Alumni
Virtual University,
FAST-NU,
University of Central Punjab,
Karachi University,
Aitchison College,
CASE,
Kinnaird,
University of Gujrat
and IBA Sukkar.

