Green examination: integration of technology for sustainability

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• 作者：Roohul Abad Khan ; Mohammed K. Al Mesfer…
• 关键词：Green examination ; Integration of sustainability ; Environmental impact ; E ; examination ; Paperless
• 刊名：Environment, Development and Sustainability
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：19
• 期：1
• 页码：339-346
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• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Sustainable Development; Environmental Management; Environmental Economics; Ecology; Economic Growth; Economic Geology;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2975
• 卷排序：19

文摘

The recent development of infrastructure all around the world has resulted in an increasing trend of online examination in universities. The paper is an approach in theory and practical aimed at analyzing the feasibility of sustainable examination in four universities and its environmental impact reducing the paper use terming it as green examination. The paper studied the integration of sustainability through the use of computers and technology in the examination of the universities viz. King Khalid University (KKU), Saudi Arabia, Integral University (IU), India, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India, and The Hague University (HU), The Netherlands. The study has analyzed the trend of paper requirement, paper utilized and paper wasted in all the four universities. The environmental impact resulting from reduced paper use has been also analyzed. The feasibility of e-examination, its implementation and the implications has been undertaken in the study. The study concludes that the e-examination can almost make the examinations paperless and feasible in the four universities.