Information Technology Utilization in Environmentally Friendly Higher Education

Leon Andretti Abdillah, Arif Ainur Rofiq, Dian Eka Indriani

2018

Abstract

The awareness of an environmentally friendly learning process has been of concern lately. IT offers some applications that are able to provide better green education environments in higher education sectors. This research involves top social information technology applications, DropBox and WordPress. DropBox is the most popular cloud storage in the world. Meanwhile, WordPress is a top content management systems at the moment. This research examines the utilization of those two applications in student assignments and presentations. The study observed 150 sophomore students in computer science faculty. The results show that the use of DropBox and WordPress in higher education learning activities is able to significantly reduce paper and ink usage. The combination of those two applications create a very handy and comfortable environment for students in higer education. This strategy reduces the consumption of papers and inks and is accepted well by most of the students.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Abdillah L., Rofiq A. and Indriani D. (2018). Information Technology Utilization in Environmentally Friendly Higher Education.In Proceedings of the Built Environment, Science and Technology International Conference - Volume 1: BEST ICON, ISBN 978-989-758-414-5, pages 350-355. DOI: 10.5220/0008908303500355

in Bibtex Style

@conference{best icon18,
author={Leon Andretti Abdillah and Arif Ainur Rofiq and Dian Eka Indriani},
title={Information Technology Utilization in Environmentally Friendly Higher Education},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Built Environment, Science and Technology International Conference - Volume 1: BEST ICON,},
year={2018},
pages={350-355},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008908303500355},
isbn={978-989-758-414-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Built Environment, Science and Technology International Conference - Volume 1: BEST ICON,
TI - Information Technology Utilization in Environmentally Friendly Higher Education
SN - 978-989-758-414-5
AU - Abdillah L.
AU - Rofiq A.
AU - Indriani D.
PY - 2018
SP - 350
EP - 355
DO - 10.5220/0008908303500355