Smart technologies are taking over classrooms and conference rooms around the world, and the demand for interactive collaboration tools only keeps growing. The interactive whiteboard market, for example, is currently valued at $4.31 billion, and is expected to grow to $5.61 billion by 2023.
So, what is driving the demand for interactive whiteboards? And what does your organization have to gain from getting in on the action? Keep reading to find out.
Interactive Whiteboards Enhance Learning and Collaboration
In the education sector, schools and universities are adopting more and more digital tools, making interactive whiteboards the standard rather than the exception. Flexible technology platforms like interactive whiteboards help create personalized learning experiences that improve educational outcomes over the long term. In fact, 75 percent of teachers believe digital learning content will completely replace printed textbooks by 2026.
For organizations in the corporate sector, the increasing need to collaborate and communicate across dispersed teams is a key driver of interactive whiteboard adoption. Interactive whiteboards allow both remote and in-person meeting attendees to view the same screen, share screens and files, and easily access saved content once the meeting is done.
3 Ways Interactive Whiteboards can help your organization
Perhaps you’re finding it harder than you expected to part with those pretty markers and make an investment in something new and unfamiliar. Find out more about how you could benefit from interactive whiteboards and you just might change your mind.
- Improved learning. Whether you’re teaching in a classroom or presenting in a meeting, interactive whiteboards let you use photos, maps, graphs, charts, and videos to help illustrate your point or back up your data.
- More productive collaboration. Interactive whiteboard tools allow presenters to share screens so participants can keep up with what is being discussed even if they aren’t physically in the room. You can also annotate the content on an interactive whiteboard and any notes are automatically captured. So instead of spending their time furiously writing things down, students and meeting attendees can focus on contributing to the discussion in real-time.
- BYOD compatibility. Laptops are becoming a classroom mainstay and more than 30 million primary and secondary school students use learning apps on a computer or tablet. In the corporate world, employees are just as likely to be working from a mobile phone, tablet, or personal laptop as they are from a company-issued device. Interactive whiteboards can be accessed from any smart device so participants can connect and share from anywhere using an interface that is familiar.
get the help you need to stay on trend
Interactive whiteboards aren’t going anywhere, but the technology will continue to evolve. Staying on top of the latest trends will help ensure you are investing in the most up-to-date solutions to meet your collaboration needs. Request a meeting with ClarkPowell today to discuss your options for collaboration tools.
