The 9-months old Google Apps Marketplace is adopting over 20 educational apps from 19 vendor apps, such as learning management systems (the LearnBoost gradebook or the K-12 LMS Haiku for example), bibliographic tools like EasyBid, and learning aids (such as Grockit and DreamBox). The new apps are integrated with a school’s Google Apps for Education accounts, such as Google Calendar and Docs, greatly expanding the potential for apps to be available for integration and distribution in the educational domain.

Din Heiman, COO of BrainPOP says that “Google Apps Marketplace can contribute to education because of the convenience that it can afford teachers and their students. The BrainPOP app will enable easy access to BrainPOP subscriptions, and will help keep track of valuable formative assessment data via shared teacher spreadsheets.”

DreamBox Learning is one of the many apps that’s part of today’s release, launching DreamBox Learning K-3 Math, an adaptive web-based learning tool for young students.  It provides one-click access to reporting dashboards, for both teachers and school administrators to monitor individual student progress and classroom performance data.

The educational category in the marketplace comes with both free and paid additional apps, and will help schools obtain budget savings, cloud solution and various communication tools, as is now serving over 10 million students and teachers.  According to the 2010 Campus Computing project, nearly 85% of four-year colleges and universities are already using or considering moving to the cloud by offering hosted email to their students. Writes Google, “of those schools that have already made the move, more than 56% of them have gone Google.”