e-Learning and the aspect of students in forestry and environmental studies

Abstract

The new information technologies (ICTs) and the services they provide, is a tool that can transport data with high speed and allow the diffusing of vast amount of knowledge and information, to lay the groundwork to redefine a new improved relationship between person and environment with benefits that are important for both recipients. The need for a sustainable natural environment, based on sustainable facts, has led to the resurgence and support of systems such as agroforestry, whose services are vital to the life of modern man. This work will therefore focus on a presentation of modern technology and tools of e-learning, describes the current situation in in the European Union and Greece, but also examine the need for the participation of these tools in agriculture and forestry courses, particularly those of agroforestry systems and the aspects of students in forestry and environmental studies. For that reason, finally presents results from a survey that took place amongst students of Faculty of Forestry and Natural Environment