PAPERLESS JOY

Taking exams and correcting and scoring exams, in addition to the teacher’s administrative work, would become much more effective when done in a paperless manner.

Easy editing of documents also leads to the printing of multiple versions of the same document.

I bought a document scanner with an autoloader and scanned in all my paper-based documents into electronic files which I neatly organized into relevant folders on my computer.

I gradually became 100 percent paperless, and now I only use paper when I am required to by regulations or the law.

Furthermore, a paperless way of reading, researching and completing assignments would provide all the flexibilities mentioned in this book to both students and teachers.

I would obviously also do all the writing, editing and commenting on texts electronically, directly on the electronic document.

they can produce a paperless generation of students who are acculturated to using ICT-based media instead of paper.

My first step toward paperlessness was to stop reading research reports in printed format on paper, but instead reading them directly from the screen. Incrementally I would get better and better at it, to the point now of now finding it easier and more natural to read from a screen than from paper.

there is a persistent myth that paper is superior to ICT applications,

The American Consumer Institute, for example, has estimated that the Internet will save the world from approximately one billion tons of carbon emissions in the next ten years. This number can be broken down into the following carbon footprint-reducing features: · eCommerce will reduce emissions by 206 million tons of carbon, mainly in the form of