Using the interactive whiteboard as a tool in university classrooms
Keywords:
interactive whiteboard, ICT, virtual learning environments, teacher educationAbstract
The experience that is the result of an innovation made in the call for teaching improvement, Action 9's I Own Teaching Plan all academic convenes the University of Seville (Spain). The propose initiatives aimed at innovation and improvement of teaching practice in universities to enable the teachers implement new teaching techniques consistent with the objectives set in the development of the subjects that he teaches. Priority lines that frame our work is the study and experimentation of new teaching methods, learning-oriented and assessment of general and specific skills, in our case of the subject Information Technology and Communication, and the promotion and use of active methodologies and promoting teamwork. The experience has been developed during the academic year 2011-12 and it involved a total of 111 first-year students of the grade of the Faculty of Education at the University of Seville (Spain). There have been several objectives of our work, the main immersing our students in educational innovation and learning through the use of the interactive whiteboard while we generate new methodologies in the classroom involving the active participation and collaborative of students in the class dynamics.
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