Social Media & Academia

Tuesday, 14 October 2014

The Paperless Challenge


Google Classroom provides  yet another option to avoid such student ques.

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Students waiting in line to print their assignments at the Matheson Library, Papua New Guinea University of Technology.

The ques at the Library's photocopy and printing service prompted this post. We can help students save on the cost of printing assignments by using Web 2 applications for electronic submissions and marking of assignments.

Other universities are doing this and  PNG University of Technology can follow suit. In an earlier post (Blogging for Teaching & Learning)  i suggested lecturers creating and using blogs and My Drive for teaching and learning activities and of course quick interaction with students.

In the process of writing this post i attended a presentation on Cloud Computing by Mr Douglass Kala at our IT Department today, 15.9.2014. Here i learnt of a newly released Google application known as classroom ( http://classroom.google.com/) that provides another option for teaching and learning. Classroom was  designed specially for learning and teaching between teachers and students.

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