article thumbnail

Are eBooks More Environmentally Friendly?

Kitaboo

Manufacturing e-readers also consume natural resources like copper, lithium, cobalt, etc. ’ — say: Agricultural residues, renewable energy, and recycled paper are quickly becoming the norm in book-making, reducing the dependency on trees. When used, an e-reader, in its lifetime, could consume 194 megajoules of electricity.

eBook 52
article thumbnail

Megatrends – are they friends or foes of sustainability?

Learning Pool

For example, the majority of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) utilise lithium-ion batteries which are difficult to recycle. While businesses are exploring new ways to recover value from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, the need to educate entire supply chains still exists and will be critical to how sustainable these can be.

Lithium 92
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

For me it is a blog community and following many experts on Twitter. Many of the blogs I follow are part of the eLearningLearning community. When it comes to free cloud apps, I also share them on my blog's Free Cloud Apps page. However, being involved in an e-learning community is a big help.

article thumbnail

Social Media Goals

Clark Quinn

Talking to them, and the others there (Vignette & Lithium) has me reflecting more broadly. However, I don’t know if having a separate app for blogs, wikis, and all works, as you want profiles and discussions to be integrated, so reckon you do want a social media environment, or you’ll have to use a lot of glue.

article thumbnail

Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

There were about 7 examples mentioned including Intuit using a Wiki-like system for customers to ask questions/get advice around taxes, using a group blog with students prior to a formal learning event, the US Army's use of collaboration tools to share best practices in Iraq, and several others. Choose the top 3-5. There were a few others.

Wiki 105
article thumbnail

What is Microlearning?

Edume

If you want to learn all about crypto currencies, lithium-ion batteries or content marketing you are going to have to commit some serious time. If you want to find out more about creating great microlearning videos, we've created a three-part series of blog posts on this topic and you can find the first part here.

article thumbnail

Hot List - April 1, 2009 to April 11, 2009

Tony Karrer

In my previous post on this topic, I outlined five change factors: The E-learning Curve blog shares thought-provoking commentary and practical knowledge for e-learning professionals. Blog CBT Distance Learning University 2.0 That's so old, I blogged about it last week. This is her blog. Didn't you read my Tweet?