Dive Brief:
- Dropbox, the cloud-based file-sharing and collaboration tool, has landed a number of university clients in its early push into the education space.
- The founder’s alma mater, MIT, made the service available to its entire campus community last summer, and edSurge reports that the University of Oklahoma, Cal State Fullerton, and Cleveland Community College have now followed.
- Dropbox has created a range of compatibility options for institutions already using Office 365, Google, Blackboard, and TurnItIn, and the company plans to expand the number of integrations.
Dive Insight:
Document sharing has never been easier. Dropbox is one of many cloud-based solutions for document storage and digital backup. EdSurge reports that many institutions have turned to the service after recognizing that so many members of their campus communities were already using it, or paying for it. Like the most successful ed tech initiatives, campuswide adoption has come following broad use, rather than in hopes of spurring it. Dropbox, though, has major competition from Google and its Drive for Education service.