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Table 1 Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of the SL project

From: Transforming learning for the smart learning paradigm: lessons learned from the Palestinian initiative

Strengths

Weaknesses

• Most of the schools’ principals and teachers supported the project

• Acceptable infrastructure in the schools

• Proliferation of digital technology in the schools

• Interactive book for four topics

• Availability of Wi-Fi Internet and 3G

• Emerge new teaching methods among teachers

• Acceptance of local community to support the project financially.

• High percentage of using Internet

• Different types of devices with different operating systems.

• Lack of high-quality of content

• Low bandwidth of the school network

• Lack of guideline, vision, and goal

• Lack of collaborative with local universities

• Culture of teachers

Opportunities

Threats

• High providing schools with different devices

• Professional development of teachers

• New jobs in design content

• Students’ equity of using new technology

• Mitigate of teachers’ daily difficulties

• Cooperation with local universities

• Share ideas and experience with technology

• Checkpoints and the separation wall

• Standardization of the content and assessment

• Parent’s interfere

• Students privacy