In Summary
This week has been amazing yet engaging, as our group prepares its logistics and groundwork for our eLearning case study.
The task that I am also required to prepare for the E-Learning case study focuses on the groups topic: Evaluation of learning and teaching technologies at USP. The E-Learning case study that I have also selected is to also examine the impacts of technologies on student learning (face to face, blended, and online) and this will be carried out here at Laucala Campus (Face to Face mode)and in selected regional campuses (Blended and Online).
As for the e-Facilitation; the groups proposed topic focuses on the use of solar energy as a sustainable approach to mitigating climate change impacts in the Pacific. The topics of the eLearning case studies focuses on the introduction, the history of solar as a mitigating and sustainable resource for climate change in the Pacific, the advantages and disadvantages of solar energy. Finally, its implications to climate change mitigation and adaption in the Pacific Islands.
The eLearning case study that the group will focus on in Assignment 3 is on the Island of Tokelau. The reasons has to why Tokelau is chosen as a case study site is remarkably astonishing.
Tokelau is one of the world’s
most remote countries – and the first to generate its energy supply using only
photovoltaics from solar energy.
The island nation consists of
three small atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, north of Samoa, and can only be
reached by boat.
For a long time, the islanders relied almost exclusively on
diesel generators to meet their electricity needs. This was expensive and
accounted for the most of pollution in the area. The electricity supply was far
from reliable, with intermittent blackouts.
However, 2012 Tokelau became the
first country in the world with an energy supply based fully on photovoltaics.
At one megawatt of power, the entire facility is the largest inverter dominated
solar off-grid system in the world. The plants generate more energy than the
1,411 inhabitants of Tokelau need.
The significance of Tokelau's solar energy project has lead to the reduction of its fossil fuels consumption, has also made Tokelau the lowest emitter of carbon dioxide world wide and Tokelau now uses more renewable resources than anywhere else in the world.
Attached is the documentary clip of how Tokelau switched to Solar Energy!
Attached is the documentary clip of how Tokelau switched to Solar Energy!
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