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An interactive whiteboard (IWB) device can either be a standalone computer or a large, functioning touchpad for computers to use. Interactive whiteboards are widely used in classrooms, boardrooms, and training environments, providing an innovative way to share information, facilitate discussions, and enhance the overall learning or business communication experience.
Smart Technologies [2] (styled as SMART Technologies) is a Canadian company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and wholly owned by Foxconn. [2] Founded in 1987, SMART is best known as the developer of interactive whiteboards branded as the "Smart Board" (styled as SMART Board) popularly used in education and business.
Open-Sankoré is the first feature-complete open-source interactive whiteboard. In contrast to other similar software, its file format is text-based and uses a W3C web standard, allowing to be displayed in a modern web browser and enabling lessons to be distributed online without additional software. Second, the software can be extended using ...
Videoconferencing and data conferencing software often lets documents as on a physical whiteboard. In hybrid whiteboarding , special handwriting detection software allows for physical whiteboards to be shared with remote and distant users, often allowing for the simultaneous addition of digital content.
The interactive whiteboard is an example of computers replacing traditional classroom technology. The early 1990s marked the beginning of modern media technology such as CD-ROMs as well as the development of modern presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint. [3]
OpenBoard is a free and open-source interactive whiteboard software compatible with any projector and pointing device. It was originally forked from Open-Sankoré in 2013 [2] with the intention to focus on simplicity and stability. The license was upgraded from LGPL-2.0-only to GPL-3.0-only. Since version 1.7.2 it is using QT 6 framework.
Mimio has perhaps the broadest core product line in the Interactive Classroom Technology market. Mimio's product line ranges from MimioTeach, a portable interactive solution that, as Mimio puts it, "turns any whiteboard into an interactive whiteboard in thirty seconds," through MimioProjector, MimioBoard Touch and a family of four Interactive Flat Panel Displays introduced in 2013.
The goal of the Edusim project is to provide an example platform, and initial resources for demonstrating the use of lesson driven 3D virtual environments in the classroom or for training purposes using interactive surfaces and/or whiteboards as the hardware platform for the "immersive touch" 3D NUI direct manipulation of the 3D learning content.