The Critical Factors Affecting Elementary and Junior High School Teachers’ Use of Interactive Whiteboard

[[abstract]]The research through literature review and expert interview to build constructing of the critical factors affecting elementary and junior high school teachers’ use of interactive whiteboard. Utilizing AHP and DEMETAL to distinguish the critical factors affecting elementary and junior high school teachers’ use of interactive whiteboard, including three major criteria and eleven sub-criteria. According to the expert questionnaire, this study to analyze the priority and causal relationships of the criteria. The results generated by AHP and DEMATEL show that ranking three major criteria were User's characteristic, interactive whiteboard’s characteristic and External environmental factor; the five priories of sub-criteria were new technology acceptance, interactivity, functionality and convenience, subject and information technology into teaching. Combining the priority and causal relationships, to improve the intention that teachers adopt interactive whiteboard base on teacher’s information ability, interactive whiteboard’s characteristic and cooperate with teaching way to achieve the purpose that information technology into teaching