In approaching Activity 2, I wanted to evaluate an open source technology. \u00a0While Google has developed several open source applications, I chose to focus on Google Docs.<\/p>\n
Face 1: Market Focus <\/strong><\/p>\n Google Docs is being used in a variety of settings from K-12 to higher education institutions as well as in business venues.<\/p>\n Face 2: Types of Offerings<\/strong><\/p>\n Google Documents encompasses a variety of offerings from word processing to presentations.<\/p>\n Face 3: Who is the Buyer?<\/strong><\/p>\n Because Google Documents is open source technology, there is no \u201cbuyer\u201d per say, but rather a customer. The decision to use Google Docs can be made by individuals or by institutions. In the educational arena, many utilize Google Docs for its collaborative features.<\/p>\n Face 4 \u2013 Global Markets<\/strong><\/p>\n Face 5 \u2013 Development of the Market<\/strong><\/p>\n A growing demand for open source applications ensures the continuing development of the market for application such as Google Docs. Other open source roducts such as OpenOffice \u00a0provide competition in the market. As a company, Google is committed to ongoing development and open access to an both products and an infrastructure which allow for ease of access (portability). For more information see http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/corporate\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Face 6 \u2013 Learning Technology Competing with Other Forms of Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n I am not entirely sure how to address this aspect. While Google Docs is not solely a learning technology, the growing demand from various sectors for open source productivity applications stimulates competition. Within the educational realm, the need for dependable, collaborative applications ensures that Google Docs and other developing open source productivity applications will be well received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In approaching Activity 2, I wanted to evaluate an open source technology. \u00a0While Google has developed several open source applications, I chose to focus on Google Docs. Face 1: Market Focus Google Docs is being used in a variety of settings from K-12 to higher education institutions as well as in business venues. Face 2: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mod03the-global-learning-technologies-marketplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Google Docs is uniquely positioned in the global marketplace. Due to the popularity of Google\u2019s free web browser and electronic mail service, customers can easily access Google documents. For those who are unfamiliar with how to use Google documents, tutorials are readily available such as this one from CommonCraft.<\/span><\/h3>\n
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