Selected studies carried out within the Center for Research on Innovation in Learning Technologies during the year 2023-2024

2025


Characteristics and effectiveness of formal and informal teacher professional development for remote teaching of educators in different career stages. 
Shamir-Inbal, T., Avidov-Ungar, O., Hadad, S., & Blau, I. (2025). Research & Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 20.


Teaching in Virtual Reality: Examining Teacher Roles Across Varying Levels of Immersion.
Schwartz, E. & Blau, I. (2025).  In T. Bastiaens (Ed.), Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning (pp. 1134-1139). Barcelona, Spain: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). 


Crafting personalized learning experiences in 3D environments with pedagogical conversational agents.
Joint Proceedings of LAK 2025 Workshops (pp. 35-40) co-located with 15th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2025) Dublin, Ireland, March 3-7, 2025. CEUR-WS.org (Vol. 3995).


Not Just Four Walls: A flexible learning space as a model for collaboration and techno-pedagogical innovation for pre-service teachers.
Avdiel, O. & Blau, I. (2025).  In R. Jake Cohen (Ed.), Proceedings of society for information technology & teacher education International Conference (pp. 95-100). Orlando, FL, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.


Metacognitive scaffolding for digital reading and mind-wandering in adults with and without ADHD.
Brann, A., & Sidi, Y. (2025). Learning and Instruction, 95, 102051.


Students' motivation to learn mathematics predicts their STEM career expectations and mediates the effects of gender, parental occupations and math classroom environments
Caspi, A., & Gorsky, P. (2025).  International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-025-10581-8


Cyberbullying and problematic internet use in adolescents with ADHD: Exploring the relationship with moral disengagement and social skills.
Eden, S., Heiman, T., Olenik Shemesh, D., & Yablon, Y. (2025). Frontiers in Public Health, Volume 13.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1577900
 

Artificial Intelligence Models and Trainee Teachers Comparison of Attributional Patterns Toward Students with and without Learning Disabilities.
Levkovich, I., Rabin, E., & Elyoseph, Z., (2025). Research in Developmental Disabilities, Volume 160, 104970.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2025.104970


Higher education students' perceptions of ChatGPT: A global study of early reactions.

avšelj, D., Keržič, D., Tomaževič, N., Umek, L., Brezovar, N., Iahad, N. A., Abdulla, A. A., Akopyan, A., Aldana Segura, M. W., AlHumaid, J., Allam, M. F., Alló, M., Andoh, R. P. K., Andronic, O., Arthur, Y. D., Aydın, F., Badran, A., Balbontín-Alvarado, R., Ben Saad, H., Olenik Shemesh, D.,    ... Rabin, E.,…. (2025). PLOS ONE.

 

Work-family conflict among Turkish teachers during lockdown
Göksün, D. O., Sunar, A. S., & Rabin, E. (2025). Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 11, 101358.,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101358


Mediation of work-and-family conflict in the relationship between social-and-organizational support and teaching self-efficacy: The case of parent-teachers working remotely. 
Rabin, E., Goldberg, S., & Blau, I. (2024). Education and Information Technologies29, 22545–22566.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-024-12732-w


Artificial Intelligence competency framework for teachers and students: Co-creation with teachers.
Filo, Y., Rabin, E., & Mor, Y., (2024).European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 26(1), 1-14. DIO:10.2478/eurodl-2024.


STEM career expectations across four diverse countries: Motivation to learn mathematics mediates the effects of gender and math classroom environments.
Caspi, A., & Gorsky, P. (2024). International Journal of STEM Education11, article 52.

2024


Mediation of work-and-family conflict in the relationship between social-and-organizational support and teaching self-efficacy: The case of parent-teachers working remotely. 
Rabin, E., Goldberg, S., & Blau, I. (2024). Education and Information Technologies29, 22545–22566.


Artificial Intelligence competency framework for teachers and students: Co-creation with teachers.
Filo, Y., Rabin, E., & Mor, Y., (2024).European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 26(1), 1-14. DIO:10.2478/eurodl-2024.


STEM career expectations across four diverse countries: Motivation to learn mathematics mediates the effects of gender and math classroom environments.
Caspi, A., & Gorsky, P. (2024). International Journal of STEM Education11, article 52.


A quantitative examination of half-belief in superstition. 
Caspi, A., Shmuel, E., & Chajut, E. (2024). Journal of Individual Differences, 45 (1), 16-31.


Using Emojis That Alter the Meaning of Written Messages to Communicate Interpersonal Relations. 
Caspi, A., & Raz, G. (2024). Media Psychology, 1–27.


Pedagogical strategies employed in the Emergency Remote Learning Environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: The tale of teachers and school ICT coordinators. 
Hadad, S., Shamir-Inbal, T., & Blau, I. (2024). Learning Environments Research, 1-24. 


Big lessons from Singapore and Israel.
 Heng, M. A., Blau, I., & Anwar, N. D. (2024). In M.A. Heng (Ed.), Inspiring Purpose in High-Performance Schooling (pp. 108-131). London: Routledge.


Problematic Internet Use and well-being: A mediated-moderated model of socio-emotional factors. 
Olenik-Shemesh, D., Heiman, T., & Wright, M. (2024). Journal of Genetic Psychology, 185 (2), 91-113.


Mediation of work-and-family conflict in the relationship between social-and-organizational support and teaching self-efficacy: The case of parent-teachers working remotely. 
Rabin, E., Goldberg, S., & Blau, I., (2024). Education and Information Technologies.


Opting out as an untapped resource in instructional design: Review and implications. 
Sidi, Y.& Ackerman, R. (2024). Educational Psychology Review, 26 (2), 41.


Towards learning analytics for student evaluation in the Metaversity.
 Winer, A., & Geri, N. (2024). Joint Proceedings of LAK 2024 Workshops (pp. 284-291) co-located with 14th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2024) Kyoto, Japan, March 18-22, 2024. CEUR-WS.org (Vol. 3667).

2023


Cyberbullying and PIU among adolescents before and during COVID-19 Pandemic: The association with adolescents' relationships. 
Eden, S., Yablon, K., Olenik-Shemesh, D., & Heiman, T. (2023). Youth and Society, 1-24.


Pre-Service Teachers, attitudes toward integrating digital games in learning for developing higher-order thinking and lifelong learning –Insights for training. 
Eyal, L., Rabin, E., & Meirovitz, T., (2023). Education Sciences, 13 (12), 1165.
https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13121165

Social capital in high-schools: teacher-student relationships within an online social network and their association with in-class interactions and learning. 
Kasperski, R., Blau, I., & Ben-Yehudah, G. (2023). Interactive Learning Environments, 31(2), 955-971.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2023.1985012

Objects’ perceived meaningfulness predicts both subjective memorability judgments and actual memory performance. 
Shoval, R., Gronau, N., Sidi, Y., & Makovski, T. (2023). Visual Cognition, 31 (6),472-484.


Selected studies carried out within the Center for Research on Innovation in Learning Technologies during the year 2021-2022 

2022


Professional development processes of teachers in different career stages and in different Covid-19 pandemic periods. 
Avidov-Ungar, O., Hadad, S., Shamir-Inbal, T. & Blau, I. (2022). In E. Langran (Ed.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference – SITE 2022 (pp. 312-318). San Diego, CA, nited States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

When context meets knowledge in University professional education: organizational factors influencing coherence in teaching and social work.
Becher, A. (2022). Higher Education, 83(3), 577-595.


How instructivist versus Constructivist Pedagogical Perspectives of Code Teachers Affect Visual Programming Artifacts of Students?.
 Blau, I., Shamir-Inbal, T., & Kesler, A. (2022). Bastiaens (Ed.), Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning (pp. 1131-1136). NY, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/221423/


Cyber-victimization experience among higher education students: Effects of social support, loneliness, and self-efficacy. 
Heiman, T., & Olenik-Shemesh, D. (2022). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Manuscript : ijerph-1662053


Perception of the strength of prosodic breaks in three conditions: Explicit pause, implicit pause, and no pause. 
Silber-Varod, V., Alfon, E., & Amir, N. (2022). Proc. Speech Prosody 2022, 475-479.


Computational Chemistry in the undergraduate classroom–pedagogical considerations and teaching challenges. 
Tuvi‐Arad, I. (2022). Israel Journal of Chemistry, 62(1-2), e202100042.


The effects of personal values and message values on vulnerability to phishing. 
Caspi, A., Sayag, M., Gross, M., Weinstein, Z., & Etgar, S. (2022). Personality and Individual Differences, 186B, 111335.


Let them choose: Optional assignments and online learning patterns as predictors of success in online general chemistry courses. 
Feldman-Maggor, Y., Blonder, R., & Tuvi-Arad, I. (2022). The Internet and Higher Education, 55, 100867.


Crosschecking teachers' perspectives on learning in a one-to-one environment with their actual classroom behavior–a longitudinal study. 
Peled, Y., Blau, I., & Grinberg, R. (2022). Education and Information Technologies, 27(4), 4841-4864.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-021-10809-4


Social-emotional and cognitive aspects of online teaching during Covid-19. 
Sidi, Y. & Eshet-Alkalai, Y. (2022). In: Y. Eshet-Alkalai, I. Blau, A. Caspi, S. Etgar, N. Geri, Y. Kalman, V. Silber-Varod (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th Chais Conference for the Study of Innovation and Learning Technologies: Learning in the Technological Era, Raanana: The Open University of Israel 


Which pedagogical strategies are prevalent in emergency remote teaching? Crosschecking teachers and ICT coordinators' perspectives. 
Shamir-Inbal, T., Blau, I. & Hadad, S. (2022). In E. Langran (Ed.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference – SITE 2022 (pp. 692-696). San Diego, CA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

2021


Exploring the relationship between problematic internet use and well-being among adolescents: The mediating role of resilience, self-control, negative mood and loneliness. 
Olenik-Shemesh, D. (2021). Journal of Child and Adolescent Behavior, 8(4), 1-8.

Resilience and self-concept as mediating factors in the relationship between bullying victimization and sense of well-being among adolescents. 
Olenik-Shemesh, D., & Heiman, T. (2021). International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 26 (1), 158-171.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2021.1899946

Behind the scenes of educational data mining. 
Feldman-Maggor, Y., Barhoom, S., Blonder, R., & Tuvi-Arad, I. (2021). Education and Information Technologies, 26 (2), 1455-1470.

How versatility performance influences perception of charismatic speech: A study on two Israeli politicians. 
Niebuhr, O., & Silber-Varod, V. (2021). Interaction Studies, 22(3), 303-342.


Facilitating emergency remote K-12 teaching in computing-enhanced virtual learning environments during COVID-19 pandemic-blessing or curse? 
Shamir-Inbal, T., & Blau, I. (2021). Journal of Educational Computing Research, 59(7), 1243-1271.