Paperless Education

Paperless education

Since the introduction of computers in modern society, their advocates believe that it will be more efficiency to creat a “paperless sociey”. Most universities and colleges are tend to paperless education inclueds lecture, learning activities and exams. It is intended to imply a reliance on computers and conputer-based technologies to access data, information, documents, and similar materials and additionally to include the electronic submission of assignments.

There are still a lot of controversy about paperless would be a positive or negative for student. We cannot achieve a totally paperless classroom, we can greatly reduce the dependence on printed documents. Reducing the amount of paper used in cousework, resouce materials, teaching aids, assignments, and reference matierials has many direct and indirect advantages. A paperless approach permits corrections or adjustments to be made once in the source document anf then all readers will immediately have access to the corrected document. Nowadays, our most common approach of learning is using the powerpoint as resouce materials and teaching aids. In one such study the author identifies assignment feedback as an area improved by electronic rather than paper media.

(http://content.hccfl.edu/faculty/michaelmoats/Paperlessclassroom.htm 31/10/2010 )

The powerpoint as a straightforward way contain the key point in a lecture and paper lecture notes are no longer handed out during lectures. It have many advantages, first of all, the lecture slideshows incorporate a large number of high quality, computer-generated of each concept. Student might found it more clear than tha traditional approach. In some cases, computer animations and video clips have been employed as well. This wealth of images has been refrees to by the students as a major aid to their understand. At the same time, the powerpoint system might be convenient for teachers, a clearly structure and content frame. That...