The use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) grew dramatically over the past two decades, especially within educational settings. This action research project attempted to determine how IWBs affected engagement, interaction, and learning when used for teacher training. Survey results indicated positive teacher attitudes towards IWBs prior to training, and that these impressions intensified as a re...

The focus of this chapter is the provision of teacher professional development as needed – just in time. The specific context is the application of peer mentoring in teaching and learning with interactive whiteboards. Data was gathered from two research projects that investigated aspects of teachers mentoring colleagues in Australia. In both projects lessons were video recorded and the teachers...

MERIT (Multimedia Extensions of Retrieval Interaction Tools)1 provides a user-centered interface to a database covering European research programs, projects, and consortia in the field of information technology. The system supports the user by offering a selection of sample retrieval strategies, called “cases”, which are modifiable to meet situative requirements. The dialogue is focused by obje...

This paper reports on a study designed to examine the dialogic processes teachers used to sustain focused discussions, using questioning techniques and Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs). IWBs and their related technologies such as plasma touch screens and projected tablets have passed through several phases of implementation as classroom objects, from initial adoption by a few enthusiasts, through...

Over the last decade, interactive whiteboards have become popular teaching and learning tools, especially in primary school classrooms. Research studies from recent literature report on high levels of student motivation, teacher enthusiasm and wholeschool support associated with these technological tools. Much research to date has reported on the potential of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) to i...

The study presented in this paper involved 124 Singaporean pre-service teachers who were attending a core information and communications technology (ICT) module, which is a component of their teacher education program. During this module, the pre-service teachers were introduced to the interactive whiteboard (IWB) through an instructional approach that consisted of tutor modeling, self-paced ex...

This paper describes a new paradigm of programming education using a large electronic whiteboard that combines the merits of classroom lectures using a black/white board and those of computer processing. Using this system, a teacher can write a program on the board, explain it, make the system recognize it and run the program in front of the class while keeping the attention of the students foc...

The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of a technology-supported learning environment utilizing an interactive whiteboard (IWB) and NuCalc graphing software compared to a traditional direct instruction-based environment on student achievement in graphs of quadratic functions and attitudes towards mathematics and technology. Sixty-five high school graduates attending cram schools (c...

The convergence of communications and information technology within education, as well as more widely, means that concepts developed within ITS & AIED are now applicable to a wider range of wired, and more interestingly 'wireless', technologies. Interactive TV, supported by broadband broadcasting, offers interesting possibilities for education. The use of TV (and radio) in education has a long ...

• Sammendrag/Abstract: This research note reviews the literature on the use of and issues around interactive television in various environment, in particular the family and domestic sphere. This work examines the problem of defining the concept of interactivity and provides a historical background to the notion of interactive television. It outlines the various purposes of interactive televisio...