With the advent of the information age, traditional teaching and researching in today’s higher education faces the challenges like visual limitations, interactivity limitations and so on. The introduction of interactive board will inject new blood to higher education, unleashing professor office ideas and changing academic work places. Interactive whiteboard is not only a teaching tool, but also a key technological support to improve teaching effectiveness, enhance learning interaction and promote collaboration, which has an important role in promoting the teaching and learning environment of modern higher education.
The Shortages in Traditional Higher Education
Visual Limitations:Ordinary screens and blackboards can hinder educators' ability to effectively communicate abstract or spatial concepts, especially in fields such as engineering, math, and science. For example, when explaining math problems in a math class, the instructor has difficulty in presenting the complete steps to solve the problem.
Interactivity Challenges:Ordinary screens and blackboards often lack interactivity in discussions. When a professor and his research team are having a discussion, they are unable to annotate intuitively and efficiently on a shared screen.
Remote Learning Limitations:Post-epidemic era continues the way of online classes in the epidemic era, but many schools are equipped with old equipment, which can cause lagging and unsynchronized audio and video problems, leading to disruptions or poor audio/video quality during video conferences. Besides, online classrooms often face device incompatibility issues.
Limited Multimedia Integration:Ordinary screens and blackboards may not effectively support the integration of multimedia elements such as videos, animations, or interactive simulations. These elements are crucial for providing diverse learning materials that cater to different learning styles and enhancing the overall educational experience.
Adaptability and Flexibility:The fixed presentation of traditional screens limits the ability of teachers to adapt to the different learning styles according to the needs of their students. Teachers may have difficulty adapting or modifying course content in real time, which may affect students' understanding of complex concepts or steps.
Data Security: In higher education, the use of traditional pen-and-paper notes or plain screen displays of research data can raise a number of issues with data breaches. Paper documents can be lost or stolen, resulting in exposure of research data, and data displayed on ordinary screens can be seen by bystanders or unauthorized personnel, especially in public places or shared office spaces.
How do interactive boards transform higher education
Brush Mode & Various Templates
- Handwriting Experience:Most of the whiteboard brushes on the market have latency issues. The brush of nearhub interactive board, with low latency, allows instructors to write, draw, or annotate fluently and naturally, mimicking the experience of writing on a traditional whiteboard or paper. This feature is particularly beneficial in subjects where diagrams, equations, or sketches need to be created quickly and precisely during lectures.
- Health:Traditional chalk use generates dust that can trigger allergies or respiratory issues for some individuals. The brush used on interactive whiteboards effectively reduces dust production, thereby lowering allergen levels in indoor air and promoting a healthier environment.
- Personalization:The brush of nearhub interactive board has a wide range of brushes and colors. The instructors can use different colors to annotate, making annotation more clear. This feature solve the problem of traditional chalk which is fragile and troublesome to change the color. Besides, instructors can choose the template connected to the class content, saving their time and effort.
- Real-time Annotation:Teachers or presenters can annotate in real-time through using a stylus without needing to modify or affect the original document or presentation slides.
Split Screen
- Multitasking:Split-screen allows students and educators to view and compare multiple sources of information simultaneously. For example, a student can have lecture notes or slides open on one side of the screen while researching related topics or references on the other side. This promotes efficient multitasking without constantly switching between applications or windows.
- Visual Learning:When teaching offline, split screen allows instructors to use videos and text in class simultaneously. This can help reinforce learning through different modalities and make complex concepts more accessible.
Infinite Canvas & Real-time Whiteboard
- Infinite Canvas:In traditional classrooms, due to limited space on the blackboard, instructors may face issues of continuity when explaining problems or presenting content, particularly in explaining complex mathematical problems. With interactive board, instructors can draw write, draw, or display content within an infinitely large virtual space, enhancing the coherence and effectiveness of teaching.
- Simultaneous Editing:Interactive whiteboards support simultaneous editing by multiple people on the whiteboard hardware or hardware plus remote software. When working on a research project, multiple researchers can discuss and organize research data, results, and ideas on the same whiteboard. This helps to unleash professors' office ideas, promoting more direct and closer communication and collaboration between faculty and professors.
Data Protection & Access Control
Paper documents may be lost or stolen, and data displayed on ordinary screens may be seen by unauthorized people. To address these issues, many higher education colleges and institutions are turning to use more secure technologies, such as interactive board. It can provide enhanced security measures through dedicated user accounts, access control and identity authentication. This ensures that instructors and researchers can handle and share critical research data in a secure environment.
Online Course & Virtual Meeting
- Device Compatibility:The post epidemic era continues the way of online classes in the epidemic era. Online classes are incompatible with different terminals of students, while interactive board can realize multiple terminals at the same time. Students can use various devices such as ipad, computer, smartphone, etc. to take classes.
- Software Compatibility:Software incompatibility can lead to functional limitations that can affect productivity or the learning experience. The interactive board can not only compatible with multiple video meeting platform,like zoom, google meeting, but also compatible with some courseware for cold specialties, which can be downloaded from Google Play Store.
- Clarity and Sound:There are problems like lagging, echoing during lessons when using ordinary devices. Nearhub interactive board, equipped with 4k video resolution and built-in noise reduce mic, ensures clarity of courseware and good radio reception, avoiding audio and video desynchronization for remote listeners. It enhances user experience and increases efficiency for online course or virtual meeting.
Conclusion
Interactive board plays an essential role in higher education for either general teaching or academic research. The use of technology like interactive board in college and institution can create flexible teaching places and academic work places, unleashing students’ and professors’ creativity.
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