Smart-Board Technology Integration in Teaching

The Interactive White Board Technology (IWBT) holds many pedagogical promises and aims to elevate teaching to new heights in higher education. This research attempts to unveil many of the issues surrounding this technology. IWBT comes with a portfolio of redundant hardware components and software solutions that could intelligently facilitate the teaching process making it more rich, exciting and interactive. In addition, the touchable smart board adds more functionality and could encourage student participation and involvement in learning. However, the IWBT is recent and issues emanating from its use in teaching are unclear. This research takes a more proactive approach in developing different scenario integrating the IWBT in key technical concepts pertaining to different departments in the College of Information Technology. It is believed that adopting such approach could, at least, eliminate initial expected resistance amongst teachers and students. The research also solicits the views of teachers and students about the IWBT. Initial insights suggested that the IWBT could be used in teaching technical courses. However, its full success is contingent upon addressing certain factors highlighted in this research. The research highlights different contributions, contentions and future research areas.