Evaluation of the Use of Interactive Whiteboard for ICT Assisted Education at the University of Indonesia

In this paper we review the utilization of a new equipment called Interactive Whiteboard to assist teaching and learning process at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Indonesia. Interactive whiteboard is a board that is connected to a computer in which a user can touch the whiteboard to give some input instruction to the system. The Interactive Whiteboard was initially purchased to support some work related with virtual reality research. Meanwhile the interactive whiteboard has also been tested and used by a few lecturers to help them in improving their teaching method. In this paper we assess the use of the output devices called Interactive Whiteboard in research and teaching. This paper describes the benefit and some hindrance in fully utilizing the touch large screen equipment. Some assessment of user opinion on the use of this device for 3 Dimension or virtual reality presentation as well as computer assisted education has been conducted and reported in this paper.