IWBNet has examined the impact of the successful whole of school introduction of IWBs in a cross section of schools in the UK, the US and Australia and from that study identified a number of key findings relevant to all schools contemplating the shift to IWBs.

Mal Lee and Dr Arthur Winzenried undertook the study in the latter part of 2005 and early 2006.

The findings are summarised in the article by Lee and Winzenried entitled Interactive Whiteboards and Digital Take Off. Achieving Total Teacher ICT Usage.

To download the summary, click here.

A media release is available for Partners wishing to utilise these findings.

IWB ACCEPTANCE RESEARCH

IWBNet is conducting an international research exercise on the reasons why teachers are prepared to accept IWBs as an integral part of their everyday teaching.

The research builds on the findings of IWBNet’s digital take off research where in the sample schools all the teachers were prepared to use IWBs in their everyday teaching.

That research didn’t seek to ascertain why.

That is what we are doing now.

Would you like to involve your school in the research project?

You’ll need to have a significant proportion of your teachers comfortably using IWBs, and to administer the questionnaire to just those teachers.

The questionnaire takes teachers only a few minutes to complete.

In the test runs we administered the questionnaire at the start of the staff meetings but it will be up to you to decide on how to conduct the exercise.

We would like to involve primary and secondary teachers in a range of countries.

If you would like to participate would you email Mal Lee at info@iwb.net.au

The offer to participate will close on May 26

Click here to download a copy of the questionnaire to be administered.