The leaflet “Digital Learning and its environmental impact” provides an insight on digital learning tools and its environmental impact. It was created in the framework of the Erasmus+ project “Beyond the tales“. 

Organisations working within different formal and non-formal educational environments need to face the rising challenges of developing projects, and at the same time create valuable educational experiences by incorporating specific digital instruments into the whole process of learning. In this aspect, digital learning is a learning experience facilitated by using digital technology that gives learners more control over their time, place and path of learning. 

The Internet and proliferation of internet access devices has given learners the possibility to learn anywhere they choose to, which means that learning is no longer restricted to a classroom. However, digital learning tools have an underestimated and at the same time significant impact on the environment mainly due to their energy consumption and “digital pollution”, which need to be taken into consideration when creating comprehensive and holistic educational experiences.