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Yefim Kats

Yefim Kats received his PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His teaching and research interests include informatics, instructional design, e-Learning, and social implications of technology. Dr. Kats has an extensive curriculum development and teaching experience with traditional, hybrid, and online courses. His research record includes peer-reviewed publications in informatics, curriculum development, instructional methodology, e-Learning, and social aspects of technology. Dr. Kats is a recipient - as the Principle Investigator - of the federal research grants the National Research Council and the National Institute of Health. He is currently a Coordinator of the Graduate Instructional Technology Program at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, USA.

Publications

Integrated Support of Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders and Learning Disabilities

This chapter outlines the integrated approach to support children and young adults diagnosed with learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In this context, the...

Education and Technology Support for Children and Young Adults With ASD and Learning Disabilities

Among the disabilities covered at the state and federal levels, autism and related conditions are a sharply growing diagnostic category among children and young adults. In...

Integrated Support of Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders and Learning Disabilities

This chapter outlines the integrated approach to support children and young adults diagnosed with learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In this context, the...

Preface

This Preface is included in the book Supporting the Education of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Educational Leadership and Integrated Support for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

This chapter addresses the integrated approach to the support of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). In this context we, first, discuss the legislative...

Educational Leadership and Integrated Support for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

This chapter addresses the integrated approach to the support of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). In this context we, first, discuss the legislative...

Learning Management Systems and Instructional Design: Best Practices in Online Education

The technical resources, budgets, curriculum, and profile of the student body are all factors that play in implementing course design. Learning management systems administrate...

Learning Management System Technologies and Software Solutions for Online Teaching: Tools and Applications

With the rapid proliferation of distance learning, schools confront the difficult problem of choosing and managing an appropriate technological environment that fits their...

Computer Technologies in Logic Education

The recent truly revolutionary changes in information technology triggered the rapid proliferation of educational software supporting introductory as well as advanced...

Computer Ethics and Intelligent Technologies

This article is a survey of moral and social challenges related to the development of intelligent technologies and the emerging phenomenon of the Semantic Web. We explicate the...