Dr. Anat Cohen

Anat Cohen (PhD) is a senior lector at Tel Aviv University's School of Education, where she heads the Learning and Technology program in the Department of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology. She is a deputy chair holder of technology and education affairs in the UNESCO Chair in Technology, Internationalization and Education; and a research coordinator of Web-Supported Academic Instruction at Tel-Aviv University (Virtual TAU).

Anat holds a BA in School Counseling and Arabic Literature and Language, an MA in Communication and Computers in Education, and a Ph.D. in Science Education (Tel Aviv University).

She has vast research and teaching experience in the field of learning and cyber technologies. For the past 20 years she has been engaged in developing online learning materials, training academic staff and characterizing how to fit learning-management features to the university’s needs.

Her research activities focus on areas such as learning analytics and educational data-mining, social networks and privacy perception, ICT implementation in higher education, cost-effectiveness of online learning, open educational resources (learning object repositories & MOOCs) and mobile-assisted learning.