Smart Boards (Interactive Whiteboards)

Smart Boards wasted billions in educational budgets, with 90% of teachers using them merely as expensive projectors, according to a 2016 Johns Hopkins study. This failure is cheaper per unit than #6 MOOCs but equally devastating in impact, showing no improvement in student outcomes compared to traditional whiteboards. The average interactive whiteboard cost $2,500 more than a standard board, yet standardized test scores remained flat over five years of deployment—a 0% gain that is 100% less than the promised ROI.