Abstract:

This study examines the important of e-board learning and its effect in teaching at Defence University in Sri Lanka. Even after 3 years of usage of e-Boards there are some practical issues on usage of e-Boards. Therefore this study examines students’ and teachersimpact on e-board for learning and teaching process. In a developing country the importance of underlying information technology principles that are critical for an in-depth learningby e-board platform. A structured multiple choice questionnaire was distributed among students’ and lecturesthat were enrolled and employed at the General Sir John Kotelawela Defence University, Sri Lanka. A total of 300 students and 30 lectures participated in this study and completed written and online questionnaire related to e-board. The outcome of this study shows that there is a strong positive response on e-board learning among students and they believe lack of support from the technical support to improve the current situation. Lecturer’s perspective was entirely different they believe mixture of traditional method or blend will improve the quality of learning than eboard. Therefore there were somewhat 50% or more lectures avoid using the new technology due to this reason. Both parties believe that e-board is better than multimedia. Although the outcome is preliminary in nature, the results provide cause for concern over the status of e-board education in Sri Lanka which is not satisfactory

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