Confessions of an elearning skeptic

I have been pondering the many advantages of elearning this week and stumbled across one I hadn’t considered before. Elearning is green learning. Given that its world environment day today, it seems appropriate to make this the topic of a blog entry. When selling elearning within an organisation the focus is on efficiency and effectiveness. What about the environment? Think of all the paper that an organisation can save by not priniting out class manuals and handouts. Think of all the greenhouse gasses that are saved by staff not having to travel to and from training. In an organisation like mine this could be huge.

This got me digging around and I came across an great UK site called www.learningfootprint.com.  On it you can determine your organisation’s ‘learning emissions’ and how to reduce your learning footprint.

In May 2008 the NSW government announced that it would be carbon neutral by 2020.  This is the way of the future for all organisations and elearning is another tool to make it happen.  But how many of us think about our learning footprint and what we can do the reduced carbon emissions?

We can all do our part.  Go forth and eGreen!

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