The predecessor to Google Drive was Google Docs, which provided users with the ability to share and collaborate on documents together. As the loyal user of Google Drive/Docs since its launch, and the author of this mobile learning project striving of being as current as possible, I carefully curated a number of best educational articles available, either from reputable sources on the Internet, or my recent teaching practices and learning experiences, significantly empowered with the best practices and feedback from professional community and thousands of students from my postsecondary institution where we use Gmail as an educational email service as part of Google Apps for Education, including 30GB of merged Google Drive/Docs/Gmail/Picasa Web Albums cloud storage. To emphasize the focus of this mobile learning project on ease of use, so instead of basic textual descriptions and explanations, the balanced compilation of text, images and videos is presented for better immersion and understanding of this decent cloud storage/service technology. Lately, its use in education is rapidly becoming increasingly widespread, though the amount of in-depth academic research on the effectiveness and implications of Google Drive/Docs is still limited in scope. Google Docs was introduced in February 2007, and after years of improvements became Google Drive in April, 2012. The suite is powered by decent technology recently developed and considerably more advanced than it was possible a few years ago, when it was known as “Google Docs”. Google Drive and Google Docs are free applications in the cloud-based Google Apps Suite highly suitable for advancing the practices of modern constructivist pedagogy/andragogy. Google Drive and Docs are the components of an integrated cloud storage and service that provides a single place to store, access, create, edit, and share documents, files, and folders of all types. Google Drive and Google Docs: Features, Affordances, Constraints and Usage
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