Eitan.ac.il Website Review

Menachem Begin, the sixth Prime Minister of Israel, wrote in his Order of the day while serving as the commander of the Etzel on 1947: First, ask your soul, whether you're right - or not. If your idea is not right - do not start; …; But if you believe you're right; …; then do not ask what are the chances of victory; do not look who are walking behind you; …; Go forward! Do not give up. Doing the beyond is to boldly go where no man has gone before, to believe nothing is impossible, to try and look beyond what is obvious today and inspire others to work as one, without fear, in order to make the beyond happen today. This is Eitan. Hello! Eitan stands for Educational Information Technology Research Institute, a not for profit (best known in Hebrew as MALKAR), academically-oriented organization. Our mission is to search, research and develop new ways on how to make students learn better, how to help teachers to be more productive and everyone everywhere to be part of a lifelong community of innovators. The unique characteristic of Eitan lies in its DNA as a young and visionary initiative, with the ability to adapt to changes in order to create real impact on the environment, During our 18 years of operation and with the help of many sponsors and caring volunteers, we established hundreds of interactive online and free to use courses and content systems in Hebrew. Our huge experience was driven by and drove much of the research, as Eitan was a pioneer on investigating the implementation of theories such as constructivism and constructionism and predicting the rise of the semantic web, social networks, mobile, video and humanistic computing interfaces, as part of learning environments that empower the learner The multi-disciplinary applied research conducted at Eitan focuses on identifying and clas*ifying the many constraints and challenges of the different actors that prevents technology from playing a significant role in learning and teaching. Our belief is that technology holds the