Competencies for e-Instructors: How to Qualify and Guarantee Sustainability

Yasemin Gulbahar; Filiz Kalelioglu

Contemporary Educational Technology Vol. 6, No. 2 (2015) pp. 140–154

e-Learning is becoming more popular than ever with the advent of new technologies and new inventions for teaching and learning. Hence, competent e-Instructors are key to successful e-Learning implementations and they should have the appropriate...

A Survey on ICT Usage and the Perceptions of Social Studies Teachers in Turkey

Yasemin Gulbahar; Ismail Guven

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 11, No. 3 (2008) pp. 37–51

Turkey has been undertaking many projects to integrate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sources into practice in the teaching-learning process in educational institutions. This research study sheds light on the use of ICT tools in...

Building Digital Learning Culture into Pre-service Teacher Education

Ismail Guven; Yasemin Gulbahar

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 261–269

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the building of a new digital culture in preservice teacher education in terms of the professionalism and new digital skills expected of teachers. Policymakers and school administrators look for beginning...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, faculty development

Implementing Project-Based Learning and E-Portfolio Assessment in an Undergraduate Course

Yasemin Gulbahar; Hasan Tinmaz

Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 38, No. 3 (2006) pp. 309–327

In this case study, the aim was to implement project-based learning by utilizing e-portfolio assessment in a small-scale classroom (N = 8). The compulsory Design, Development, and Evaluation of Educational Software course in the curriculum of the...

Why Do Learners Choose Online Learning: The Learners' Voices

Hale Ilgaz; Yasemin Gulbahar

International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on E-Learning 2017 (2017)

Offering many advantages to adult learners, e-Learning is now being recognized--and preferred--by more and more people, resulting in an increased number of distance learners in recent years. Numerous research studies focus on learner preferences for ...

Towards an Adaptive Learning Analytics Framework

Yasemin Gulbahar; Denizer Yildirim

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 1025–1032

Recently, understanding and optimizing learning, and the environments in which learning occurs through learning analytics and adaptive and personalized approaches have gained more significant importance. There are many models proposed for such...

Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Assessment of Web-Based Courses: A Discussion and Analysis of Learners' Individual Differences and Teaching-Learning Process

Yasemin Gulbahar; Soner Yildirim

International Journal of Instructional Media Vol. 33, No. 4 (2006) pp. 367–378

This study examined the role of individual differences and the quality of the teaching-learning process on learning outcomes in a web-based instructional environment, and explored the implications of those variables on the design, delivery and...

Teacher Training on Human Rights Through E-Learning

F. Dilek Gozutok; Yasemin Gulbahar

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 666–671

The aim of this study is to evaluate the pilot study of teacher training through e-learning. Therefore, the fifth book is selected from the series of books titled "I am a Humanbeing: Education on Human Rights for Primary School". The pilot study...

Topics: Evaluation, Training, Teachers, Educational Technology, Elementary Education

Communication and Collaboration, Satisfaction, Equity, and Autonomy in Blended Learning Environments: A Case from Turkey

Yasemin Gulbahar; R Orcun Madran

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 10, No. 2 (Apr 02, 2009)

Research studies conducted in the area of e-learning and blended learning lead to the emergence of new concepts, which directly influence quality. Among these concepts, the ones taken into consideration for this research study are as follows:...

Can We Address Learning Styles of Students in Traditional And Web-Based Courses: Perceptions of Faculty Members and Preservice Teachers

Yasemin Gulbahar Yigit; Soner Yildirim

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1238–1243

The present study explored faculty members' and preservice teachers' perceptions on addressing learning styles in different instructional environments, namely in traditional classroom and web-based instruction. This study used data from faculty...

Topics: Faculty, Instructional Design, Teachers

Teaching Computational Thinking to In-Service Computer Science Teachers through a Massive Open Online Course

Yasemin Gulbahar; Filiz Kalelioglu; Serhat Bahadir Kert

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 922–928

Having gained popularity in recent years, the computational thinking concept has become an important subject of computer science education for students of all ages. Moreover, with the revision of computing course curricula for K-12 in most countries,...

Topics: Lifelong, informal, and nontraditional learning, MOOC’s, Open Teaching, and Open Educational Resources, Computational Skills

Use of a Content Management System for Blended Learning: Perceptions of Pre-Service Teachers

Arif Altun; Yasemin Gulbahar; Orcun Madran

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education Vol. 9, No. 4 (October 2008) pp. 138–153

This study presents the development, implementation and evaluation phases of a content management system to be used in higher education settings in a blended learning environment. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it is aimed to observe...

Development and Evaluation of an Interactive WebQuest Environment: "Web Macerasi"

Yasemin Gulbahar; R Orcun Madran; Filiz Kalelioglu

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 13, No. 3 (2010) pp. 139–150

This study was conducted to develop a web-based interactive system, Web Macerasi, for teaching-learning and evaluation purposes, and to find out the possible effects of this system. The study has two stages. In the first stage, a WebQuest site was...

Utilizing Learning Analytics in Measuring Students’ Learning Outcomes: Re-examining an Online Course Grounded in the Cognitive-Affective Theory of Learning with Media (CATLM)

Mohamed Ibrahim; Rebecca Callaway; Yasemin Gulbahar

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2019 (Nov 04, 2019) pp. 502–512

The purpose of this study was to use learning analytics to measure students’ learning outcomes in an online course using the design principles of cognitive-affective theory of learning with media (CATLM). The results indicated that the use of...

Topics: online learning environments, E-learning/E-training, Learner Analytics

Development and Pilot Implementation of Online Teaching Style Survey (OTSS)

Okan ARSLAN; Yasemin GULBAHAR; Christian RAPP; Kaan Zülfikar Deniz

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1530–1535

The aim of this study is to create an online teaching style inventory by investigating other teaching styles in the literature within the scope of EU FP7 Era.Net RUS (Russia) project called Somecat (Social Media as a Catalyser for Cross National...

Topics: Implementation Experiences, Groupware & WWW-based Tools