An increasing number of university freshmen has been observable in absolute number as well as percentage of population over the last decade. However, at the same time the drop-out rate has increased significantly. While a drop in attendance could be observed at the same time, statistics show that young professionals consider only roughly thirty percent of their qualification to originate in the...

The purpose of this study was to explore secondary school teachers’ perceptions of interactive whiteboard (IWB) training workshops in Taiwan. This study also sought to identify potential problems associated with the design of IWB training workshops in order to improve their effectiveness. This research employed observations and interviews to collect research data. Observations were made at the ...

This paper describes a computer-based Interactive Biomimetic Space (IBS) installation. Through an interactive process, a user creates and relates new spaces. The simulation of a simplified ecosystem populates the created space with life. The installation attempts to inspire architectural design ideas by integrating biological principles. In particular, the biological concepts of stochastic moti...

BoardTalker is an assistive technology system that is designed to help visually impaired students by allowing them to hear material that is written extemporaneously on a whiteboard during class. The system uses a touch-sensitive electronic whiteboard that the teacher can write on with his or her finger. Material written by the teacher is converted to ASCII text and displayed on the surface of t...

Working within a task-based approach to the teaching of speaking, two interactive whiteboard-based pre-task activities focusing on different phases of the speech production process (Levelt, 1989) were developed and compared with an activity based on the speaking activities currently offered in English as a foreign language course books. The first activity, Dialogue Expansion, was based on expan...

This study developed a web-based multimedia whiteboard system to help students learning with mathematical problem solving. The purpose is to promote a new online mathematical learning model that students not only use electronic whiteboard to write down their mathematical problem solving solutions but also use voice recording tool to give oral explanations about their thinking behind the solutio...

In this paper, we report on an empirical evaluation of selected aspects of DOLPHIN, a meeting room environment of computers networked with an electronic whiteboard Our results show that in a face-to-face meeting, the use of DOLPHIN'S hypermedia functionality changed the nature of the product and the way groups worked, compared to using only electronic whiteboard functionality Groups organized t...

We report from a case study of the implementation of an electronic whiteboard system at two emergency departments at Danish hospitals. The purpose of such whiteboards is to support the clinicians in maintaining an overview of the patients at the department. The electronic whiteboard system was designed in collaboration with clinicians from the departments, present more information, and allow so...

While the pervasive use of interactive whiteboards in education has emphasized the need for large public displays, a growing number of schools are moving towards a one to one (student to computer) ratio. Thus there is significant interest in understanding how personal devices (e.g. laptops, clickers) can be coupled with large public displays in a technology enabled classroom. We describe a corr...

We will present Common Knowledge (CK) – a pedagogical and technological innovation that supports teacher orchestration of inquiry discourse occurring in the digital and classroom environments. We designed CK to support a “knowledge community” pedagogy where students add their own ideas, build on peers’ contributions, and structure their inquiry. Using tablets, students contributed to a knowledg...