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Amzalag, Meital; Shapira, Noa – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
This study examined an online professional development program designed to support meaningful acquaintance and reduce stereotypes and prejudices among teachers from different cultures in Israeli society. The rationale of the online program was based on the premise that indirect online contact might improve intergroup relations in diverse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Development
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Shapira, Noa; Amzalag, Meital – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2021
Purpose: The current research presents findings from an innovative online Teachers Professional Development (TPD) program entitled -- The Israeli Society is Meeting Online. This study aims to examine to what extent does online contact promote meaningful acquaintance among teachers from different cultures in Israeli society, and how did the online…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Distance Education
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Beverley McCormick; Roger Austin; Rhiannon N. Turner; Elaine Hoter; Miri Shonfeld – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2024
The contact hypothesis, initially formulated in 1954 to delineate conditions conducive to addressing entrenched intergroup differences, has undergone continuous evolution. Originally based on face-to-face interactions, it began incorporating virtual contact from 2006 (Amichai-Hamburger & McKenna). The subsequent proliferation of blended…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Ghilay, Yaron; Ghilay, Ruth – Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
The study examined a new model called TMOC: Training to Management of Online Courses. The model is designed to train lecturers in higher-education to successfully create, deliver and develop online courses. The research was based on a sample of lecturers, who studied in a course based on the new model at the Mofet Institute in Tel-Aviv (n = 20).…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Shapira, Noa; Kupermintz, Haggai; Kali, Yael – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2016
This study examined a professional development program designed to support Civics teachers in their efforts to promote empathy among Israeli Jewish students towards Israeli Arabs. The design rationale for the program is that teachers should experience empathic processes themselves before supporting their students in such an endeavor and that…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Civics, Empathy, Jews
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Bastiaens, Theo, Ed. – Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2022
The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) is an international, non-profit educational organization. The Association's purpose is to advance the knowledge, theory, and quality of teaching and learning at all levels with information technology. The "EdMedia + Innovate Learning" conference took place in New York,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Flipped Classroom, Online Courses, Student Projects
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Pieterse, Efrat; Peled, Yehuda – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2014
This research examines the feasibility and benefits of using Twitter as a support tool to enhance social interaction among teachers in their first year of service, as they participate in an online induction workshop, and as a tool to aid the workshop's moderator in monitoring the group and enhancing and supporting the early-service teachers'…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education, Interaction
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers