“Distance Learning”: The Operation of an Interactive System Designed to Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness in Learning and Achievement

Offir, Baruch

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-35061-5_7

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“…We should not flood the schools with technology. Rather the "islands of success" conception should be used and technologies should be implemented in defined places, within limited frameworks, such that the factors that influence success can be examined, evaluated and quantified (Offir, 1987(Offir, , 1988(Offir, , 2000Offir & Cohen-Fridel, 1998). A proper combination of these means during the learning process requires a change in the teaching method.…”

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Moving from a “Flood Our School” to an “Islands of Success” Conception in the Process of Advancing Underprivileged Children

Offir

Wengrowicz

2012

International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education

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Policy makers in education do not perceive the education system as a unique discipline, but rather judge it using terms appropriate for the world of economics. Methods of analysis and decision-making that exist in the world of economics are implemented in the field of education. This reality was the basis for the authors’ research on the integration of technological systems for the advancement of students which was conducted as part of their desire to understand processes of change in learning systems. It became clear that in order to succeed in the process of integrating innovative technological systems in the schools, society should not “flood the schools” with technology, but should rather use the “islands of success method.”

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