Google, Oman to enhance hybrid and distance learning

Google, Oman to enhance hybrid and distance learning

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Oman has agreed to continue using Google Workspace for Education platform as the primary educational tool for learning and collaboration within Oman’s public schools’ network for the current academic year.

The Ministry of Education in Oman has renewed its agreement with Google which had last year provided Oman’s educational community with a suite of productivity and collaboration solutions that can flex and adapt to their unique needs and mimic a physical classroom setting.

Through the use of tools such as Google Classroom, Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, as well as Google Meet and Chat and other Education support applications, teachers were able to integrate all the tools in their teaching methodologies.

More than 600,00 students and 40,000 teachers in Oman were able to benefit from the Google Workspace for Education platform educational and collaboration tools since its deployment in early 2020, which has empowered them with new methods of teaching and learning that support distance and hybrid learning.

Recent figures from 2021 reflecting the usage and interaction of students and teachers on the platform in Oman public schools revealed that; more than 150,000 online classrooms were conducted for different school grades and subjects, with the highest levels of organisation in line with the data guidelines