| Summary: | 碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 應用心理學系碩士在職專班 === 101 === Because of the active promotion made by the government, interactive whiteboards and electronic textbooks have become more and more prevalent in the classrooms of our junior and preliminary schools. On introducing these new and high-tech teaching media to Taiwan, we need to put many important conditions into consideration in order to make the users (i.e., teachers) take full advantages of interactive whiteboards and electronic textbooks. One of the most fundamental conditions to be considered is the usability and learnability issues of these media. However, on reviewing the literature, most researchers focused on the teaching strategies and learning effects of the interactive whiteboard and the electronic textbook. In contrast, few studies have explored the usability of these media.
In this study, we observed and recorded the processes of using electronic textbooks on the interactive whiteboard by preliminary-school teachers in real classrooms and aimed at revealing the usability issues and user experiences of the interactive whiteboard and the electronic textbook based on both quantitative and qualitative data with the hope to provide practical suggestions to current and potential users, interactive whiteboard manufacturers and electronic textbook publishers.
This study revealed that the key factor to determine the user's rate of success, task time, expected and experienced difficulty of task and the score of the System Usability Scale was not the existent experience with the electronic textbooks per se but the effort of studying the user manuals of them. Only reading for a dozen of minutes could significantly improve aforementioned behavioral performances and subjective feelings. In addition, we also provided several suggestive opinions for the electronic textbook publishers to revise their current products and some concrete suggestions for further studies in the future.
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