Articles by Maury Elizabeth Brown

Ms. Brown is an assistant professor of English at Germanna Community College in Locust Grove, Virginia and a PhD student in English at Old Dominion University. She researches multimodal composition, digital and video rhetorics, new media, business, professional and technical writing, and games in education and culture.

Learning to Use, Useful for Learning: A Usability Study of Google Apps for Education

Abstract Using results from an original survey instrument, this study examined student perceptions of how useful Google Apps for Education (GAFE) was in students’ learning of core concepts in a first-year college composition course, how difficult or easy it was for students to interact with GAFE, and how students ranked specific affordances of the technology […] [Read More]