Paperless Schools

Several European schools

Between 2008 and 2010 several European schools collaborated during Paper Free Weeks and posted some information on the The Paper Free Week Wikispace. Not a lot of information is presented, but some of the early photos show participants with paper and later photos do not.

West Des Moines campus

Des Moines Area Community College, Iowa

Wired in 2002^[1] reported about the opening of Des Moines Area Community College's West Des Moines campus. It boasted of having no library and instead a resource center equipped with computer workstations that can access the Web, e-books and online journals.

The campus is part of a multi-campus college and a review of their website shows that the college has the following paperless features:

• an online registration process (but not for international students)
• online classes

However, there are also many non-paperless features:

• bookstores
• library
• PDF forms which require printing and signing

It would be interesting to know more about the experiences of the campus and how successful they have been in reducing a paper on campus.

South Korean Schools

In 2011, Mind/Shift reports on "South Korean Schools Go Paperless. Can Others Follow?" with South Korea’s Education Ministry planning to have elementary-level content digitized by 2014, and high school level content ready by 2015.

It would be interesting to see how much progress South Korea has made towards this vision.

Colegio Banting, Mexico

According to the Google for Work blog, Colegio Banting, a school without any IT support in Mexico was able to go paperless with [Google] Classroom.

1. ^ Who Needs Paper? Not Iowa College, Wired 6 August 2002, http://www.wired.com/culture/education/news/2002/08/53747