Google is announcing at EDUCAUSE today that, four years after introducing Google Apps for Education, it now has 10 million active users at universities and K-12 schools worldwide. Active users are people within Google Apps domains who have signed on within the last 7 days and include students, staff, alumni, and even parents (in some K-12 settings), depending upon how the schools have rolled out the services.
In a blog post this morning, Google noted,
In the last four years we’ve seen a lot of changes, both to our tools and the general landscape of cloud computing in higher education.