Analysis of the possibilities of using Google Classroom as Moodle replacement

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2017.07.03.40" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2017.07.03.40</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2017.07.03.40" target="_blank" >10.15405/epsbs.2017.07.03.40</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Analysis of the possibilities of using Google Classroom as Moodle replacement

Original language description

Moodle is the most popular open source e-learning system, which is available for free. In 2015, Moodle had 22,98 % market share. Just for sake of illustration, Blackboard LMS had 34,22 % (iSpring, 2015). Although Moodle is commonly used on all types of schools in the Czech Republic, its complexity and robustness can be a problem for example at primary school. Simply put, it is too complicated in case that we want to use very simple and straightforward e-learning with basic functions. According to the Pareto Principle, 80 % of users need only 20 % of features available in LMS. That´s why Google released in 2014 Google Classrom - a very simple and easy-to-use LMS with elements known from world of social networks. Its market share is rapidly growing (Ronen, 2014) and by now, schools in the Czech Republic use this tool since it is a part of free Google Apps for Education. It is also available for non-pofit organisations for free. Google constantly improves this tool. In our research, we focused mainly on following questions: Is Google Classroom ready to replace Moodle? What are advantages and disadvantages of Google Classroom? Is it missing any important features and tools? For comparison, we used well-known methodology by Burgerová, introduced in 2013. This paper introduces Google Classrom and presents first results of comparative study.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

2ND CENTRAL &amp; EASTERN EUROPEAN LUMEN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - MULTIDIMENSIONAL EDUCATION &amp; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. ETHICAL VALUES (MEPDEV), 2ND EDITION

ISBN

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ISSN

2357-1330

e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

322-331

Publisher name

FUTURE ACAD

Place of publication

NICOSIA, 1703

Event location

Targoviste, ROMANIA

Event date

Nov 17, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000416073300040