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...

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

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...