Shoham - The Center for Technology in Distance Education
Shoham was established in April 1995 as a professional organization focusing on the informed integration of information technologies into the Open University teaching paradigm. The Center deals with the development, evaluation, research and integration of technology-based pedagogical solutions to meet the various needs of academic courses offered by the University, enabling it to provide a higher quality and more effective and enjoyable learning experience to its varied and dispersed student body.
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Director - Edna Tal-Elhasid
- Head, Pedagogical team - Ofra Haneman
- Head, Technological Development team - Itai Hareven
- Head, Video and Broadcast Studio team - Amir Winer
- Head, Interactive Study Materials - ıAmir Winer
Administration
- Hila Alfasi - Administrative assistant
- Ofra Beck - Classroom filming coordinator
The Pedagogical team – Instructional designers and project managers
- Ofra Haneman - Head
- Dr. Tsily Raz-Liebermann - Instructional design, Video in teaching
- Shlomit Zarchovitz - Instructional design, Audio-books
- Tami Neuthal - Instructional design, training coordinator
- Itay Ophir - Head of Moodle characterization, instructional design
- Michal Bezer-Amar - Instructional design, training
- Hadar Rotem-Rotches - Virtual classroom coordinator
Technological Development team – Development, operation and maintenance of the learning environment
- Itai Hareven - Head, System characterization
- Goly Rabanim - Systems manager, ass't. to head of Moodle environment project
- Guy Avraham - Systems
- Uri Sheffi - Development of Internet applications
- Orit Mendelovich - Manager of the learning environment and of support system
- Natalia Rotenberg - Head of Russian language studies, developer
- Roi Yarkoni - Learning environment development team leader, head of Moodle environment project
- Yifat Shaked - Learning environment development, responsible for technical operation of the learning environment
- Miri Hefetz - Learning environment development
- Shimon Nagar - Learning environment development
- Dimitri Zabiagilski - Learning environment development
- Gabriel Weissbuch - Quality assurance (QA) team leader
- Nadav Leshed - Quality assurance
- Anna Komha - Quality assurance
- Carmit Torres - Quality assurance, Automated testing
- Moshe Schwartz - Quality assurance
Video and Broadcast Studio team – Development, operation and maintenance of the video and synchronous learning systems
- Amir Winer - Head
- Gaby Hayoun - Advanced technology and studio development manager
- Asaf Avrahami - Video technicians team leader
- Ido Bason- Video technician
- Daniel Cosin - Video and sound technician
- George Koshkhadze - Video technician, Outdoor filming
- Baruch Babiv - Video technician, sampling
- Oded Kaufman - Video technician, Video support
- Reuven Marianski - Video technician, outdoor filming
- Efrat Savir - Video lesson coordinator
- Michal Bezer-Amar - ıVirtual classroom coordinator: training and integration
- Ofra Beck - Classroom filming project coordinator
- Ido Halfi - Video technician
- Yaron Helfer - Video technician, sampling
- Lidar Saker - Logistics coordinator and Quality Assurance
Interactive Study Materials – Development, design, integration and maintenance of interactive study materials
- Amir Winer - Head
- Liat Berstein - HTML developer
- Ofer Vainer - Filming and video production coordinator
- Gal Abramovski - Video editor
- Beni Zaks- Interactive development
