Abstract
It may be hard to see how mobile phones can help address the adverse effects of climate change. As a practitioner, who since 2008, has been teaching at the university and using mobile phone to teach and deliver learning content to students in Kenya, I have witnessed the potential mobile phones have in reducing over-reliance on paper in teaching and learning. Data shows that learning institutions and especially universities that have the capacity to embrace mobile technology are pulling in the opposite direction. Most instructors still use the traditional way of teaching whereby they send reading materials and assignments to students via email or post such materials to learning management systems like Moodle, Google Classroom and other learning platforms. Since reading online is expensive, many learners print the materials instead. If we are to quantify the tones of papers used to produce learning and teaching materials daily, it is enormous. Cutting down on paper use is one of the easiest ways to lower carbon footprint. In this presentation, I share ideas on how mobile learning can help address the adverse effects of climate change by reducing over-reliance on paper in teaching and learning.
Presenters
Timothy GachangaLecturer, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Tangaza University College, Nairobi Municipality, Kenya
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Innovation, Mobile learning, Mobile devices, Learning content, Deforestation, Climate change
