Submitted by: The Two Sides Team January 5, 2010
This research by Maria Enroth, ‘Environmental impact of printed and electronic teaching aids, a screening study focusing on fossil carbon dioxide emissions, Advances in Printing and Media Technology, Vol 36, 2009. Accepted for publication’, investigates the environmental comparision between traditional text books and web based teaching methods. It reveals that, if high energy computer systems are use, the environmental cost of computer based learning can be 30 times higher that traditional books.