Special issue 2010, Volume 26: Call for articles

Interactive whiteboards: An Australasian perspective

Articles are invited for a forthcoming special issue of AJET to be published in 2010, entitled Interactive whiteboards: An Australasian perspective, edited by Dr Michael Thomas (Japan) and Dr Tony Jones (Australia). Announced in AJET Editorial 25(5) and emailings to various listservers, Interactive whiteboards will be AJET's first special issue.

Though interactive whiteboards (IWB) are strongly associated with educational institutions and researchers in the United Kingdom (Miller, Glover, Hennessy, Higgins, Kennewell et al., e.g. Learning, Media and Technology, 32(3 ), 2007; AARE, 2006), they are also increasingly being used in other parts of the world, including Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia. This special edition invites contributors from the Australasian region including Australia and New Zealand, as well as casting further afield to educators and trainers in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

This issue of AJET will include articles (between 5,000-8,000 words), which address theory, research and practical issues related to the adoption and integration of interactive whiteboards and their associated technologies. Topics may include those listed below, but articles on other aspects of interactive whiteboards in education and training are also encouraged.

• Teacher training and professional development
• IWBs in schools, further or higher education
• IWBs and ICT policy
• Designing and producing resources for IWBs
• Literature reviews dealing with the Australasian region
• IWBs and the implications for digital publishing and e-learning materials
• Implications for teaching and learning methodology
• Subject specific case studies (e.g. IWBs and mathematics)
• IWBs and the enhancement of learning outcomes and/or learner behaviour

Time schedule

Guest editors

Dr Anthony Jones is Cluster Leader in ICT in Education and Research at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia. He has been a primary school teacher, has taught secondary mathematics and ICT and is now a teacher educator. He has been teaching with and about computers for decades, and is currently undertaking a research project into connecting students who are absent from school due to a chronic illness to their teachers with various forms of ICT. In his PhD Anthony examined mathematics and ICT in the context of pre-service teacher education.