Ubiquitous mobile educational data management by teachers, students and parents: Does technology change school-family communication and parental involvement?

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1231-1247

  Blau, Ina ^a   Hameiri, Mira ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b Oranim Academic College of Education   (Israel)

Author keywords

Distributed leadership and accountability; Gender differences in mobile parental involvement; School Community of Innovation model; Teachers, students, and parents; Technological determinism; Ubiquitous mobile educational database

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963642568     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10639-016-9487-8     Document Type: Article

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