Study on the research hotspots of interactive whiteboards in education

Based upon 107 research studies on educational applications of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) from ERIC database in the latest decade, this study selects 36 high-frequency descriptors to conduct co-word analysis for exploring the research hotspots of IWBs on educational applications. The results show that over the past decade, the research hotspots of IWBs on educational applications are mainly concentrated on seven areas, including: teaching strategies and methods, instructional effectiveness, technology diffusion and infusion, the users, mathematics education, science education in primary schools, and language teaching and learning.