The use of the interactive digital board in the teaching-learning process in Higher Education

Abstract

Concerning to information and communication technologies (ICT), there is a variety of resources that can be used to make the development of the teaching-learning process more dynamic and interesting. The interactive digital board (IDB) is one option relatively new in the educational context from which there is a wide variety in the mean: tactile-digital board with a mesh, electromagnetic digital board with pencil, tactile-digital board by infrared and digital board by ultrasound-infrared with pencil. About that last one, it was studied its functioning as a didactic resource and even its implementation in the development of methodologies that foster the pedagogic innovation. Moreover, it was verified the qualitative and quantitative aspects that let visualize the academic performance of the students. For this, the evaluative case was implemented as methodology of investigation.

It concludes that the IDB is a resource that helps to take advantage of the classes because it allows to create activities like concept maps, insertion of documents, video and images for the students to interact and make their learning meaningful. Another important aspect is that when using this type of resources, the teacher improves his pedagogic practice

Conocimiento Educactivo, Vol. 2, 2015: 65-78

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