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Blau, Ina; Shamir-Inbal, Tamar – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
This study examines how the leaders of technology integration in educational institutions--school principals and ICT facilitators--assess systemic changes that occurred in their schools. The study collected the data from Israeli elementary schools towards the end of the third and the fourth years of the gradual National ICT program. The research…
Descriptors: School Culture, Technology Integration, Elementary Schools, Administrator Attitudes
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Shamir-Inbal, Tamar; Blau, Ina – Computers in the Schools, 2017
Technological changes in the digital age require schools to integrate innovative technologies in learning and the curriculum. This study analyzes data collected from elementary schools toward the end of the second and the third years of the national program for the gradual integration of ICT in Israeli schools. The study examines how school…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Elementary Schools
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Heng, Mary Anne; Blau, Ina; Fulmer, Gavin W.; Bi, Xiaofang; Pereira, Andrew – Journal of Moral Education, 2017
Purpose is an intention over the long-term to have an effect on the world that is both meaningful to oneself and to others. What are schools doing to help students use the knowledge and skills they learn in school in their own lives and aspirations? This is the first study that compares adolescent purposes and life satisfaction in Singaporean and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Adolescent Attitudes, Moral Values
Blau, Ina; Weiser, Orli; Eshet-Alkalai, Yoram – Research in Learning Technology, 2017
This controlled experiment examined how academic achievement and cognitive, emotional and social aspects of perceived learning are affected by the level of medium naturalness (face-to-face, one-way and two-way videoconferencing) and by learners' personality traits (extroversion-introversion and emotional stability-neuroticism). The Media…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Response
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Blau, Ina – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2011
This study explores the relationships between Internet abuse (IA)--self-disclosure, online application usage, and relationship types--traditional long-distance, purely virtual, and migratory mixed-mode. An online questionnaire was administered to 2884 children and youth. According to the hypotheses, applications differed in their relationships…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Safety, Children
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Caspi, Avner; Blau, Ina – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2011
The influence of media richness, media attentional load, social influence and users' prior experience with media on selection of media to transmit different messages to peers within an educational organization was tested. Media were discriminated by all potential variables. Support was found for the role of prior experience and social influence in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Experience, Rural Schools
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Gorsky, Paul; Blau, Ina – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
Upon completion of a graduate level course at the Open University of Israel, one instructor received very high student ratings while the other received very low ratings. We utilized this exceptional situation to perform ad hoc analyses of their course forums. The objective of this study was to map the dialogic behavior that occurred and to create…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Online Courses, Foreign Countries, Best Practices