Date: July 1, 2008
SMART takes pole position in Irish Interactive Whiteboards market
These new figures (released recently by DTC) mean that the company has overtaken all other providers to become leaders in this market.
SMART Board interactive whiteboards are now used to teach over 18 million students in more than 600,000 classrooms, in 100 countries across the world.
“We are seeing significant growth in the Irish interactive whiteboard market. Technology is becoming an integral part of any classroom, and schools are increasingly committed to offering the best learning experience to their students. To do this, they are using the most cutting edge technology available today. SMART Boards provide students with an interactive, enriched experience in the classroom.” said Graham Wylie, Group Product Marketing Director at Steljes, sole distributor of SMART technologies in Ireland.
SMART also supports the role out of its technology to schools through the provision of SMART Education Development Consultants (EDCs), who are fully qualified teachers as well as SMART experts.
“A contributor to our growth and a key benefit that SMART offers to adopters of our technologies is access to EDCs,” continued Wylie. “They are unique in the industry as they provide not only a huge amount of expertise in SMART’s entire range of classroom technology solutions, but are also teachers that understand student’s real needs. EDCs advise teachers on the optimum use of the technologies to ensure maximum impact and experience for their pupils.”