Education News put together an info-graphic highlighting the decline of printers on college campuses. Coincidentally, my wife, Ruthann Thomas, who is a professor at Hendrix College gave her students the opportunity to opt-in to a paperless semester. All handouts will be delivered electronically and assignments will be submitted, graded, and returned electronically too. If you’re willing to go the eBanking route, why not further embrace the digital age?
If you’re a faculty member or a student, how do you feel about a paperless course?
Tim is a Fellow in Digital Humanities and Pedagogy at Hendrix College and publisher of Scintilla. You can follow him on Twitter at @singlesoliloquy. If you'd like to schedule a meeting click here.
I hope so: printing is an enormous waste of university resources. Better screens (higher PPI) and cultural changes should move printing into lower use. I mean, why else would Dunder Mifflin release the Pyramid:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2011/10/01/look-out-apple-dwight-schrute-has-a-reality-distortion-field-too/