Hulya Avci

Texas A&M University | TAMU · Department of Educational Psychology

The current proposal is part of a larger study that aims to synthesize the existing research on in-service teachers' digital competence over the last ten years in the context of K-12 education. In this presentation, we will focus on the definition of 'digital competence' and its overlap with similar terms. This systematic literature review used thr...

This paper explores the art history instructors' practice-based reflections on their adoption, implementation, and use of the educational video game, ARTè: Lumiére, in relation to their undergraduate students' engagement and learning experience during the gameplay. We gathered data from three art history instructors teaching in higher education thr...

Understanding the adult learner and the literature is key to impacting student learning. The focus of this study was adult learning in the distance learning context. This session will share our findings and discuss the lessons we have learned from conducting an extensive research project with many diverse members. Participants will be given the opp...

Mentoring and coaching school leaders is an on-going process. Even during a crisis, such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the needs of school leaders do not change. The Education Leadership Research Center transformed traditional face-to-face mentoring and coaching into virtual professional development (VPD) using a variety of designs. This session...

Research is still emerging on how to develop teacher leaders’ instructional capacity. We implemented research-based practices through virtual mentoring and coaching (VMC) using virtual professional learning communities (VPLC) for building teacher leaders’ instructional capacity. We examined the effectiveness of the VMC using VPLC from the perspecti...

Modern visual arts education focuses on the development of students’ creative expression but cultivating art appreciation skills is equally important in art education. Art educators might need to adopt a variety of pedagogies to teach foundational concepts of art appreciation. Regarding that, this presentation will demonstrate an art-based game pro...

Roundtable virtual presentation on game-based learning and art education.

In this presentation, we demonstrated ARTé: Formal Analysis, an educational game that aims to facilitate college students in learning to write a formal analysis of art, applying basic knowledge about the formal elements of line, perspective, scale, color, value, light and composition to describe and analyze the formal structure and meaning of an ar...

In this presentation, we will demonstrate ARTé: Formal Analysis, an educational game that aims to facilitate college students in learning to write a formal analysis of art, applying basic knowledge about the formal elements of line, perspective, scale, color, value, light and composition to describe and analyze the formal structure and meaning of a...

Abstract: In today’s world, there has been a growing proclivity in promoting and teaching digital skills, which are more crucial than ever before, considering the world transformed by technology. In parallel with it, the term “Digital Intelligence (DQ)” has gained a global recognition as we enter the age of digital transformation. In a simple defin...

Computational thinking is a problem-solving method applying computer science techniques and encourages programming or coding skills among children. A programming or coding language is a special language for describing computation and expressing a set of instructions on what tasks a computer needs to execute. There has been an ongoing discussion in...

As learning a foreign language poses a number of challenges for the students, it has become indispensable to search for “optimal” conditions to enhance opportunities of engaging in the target language. Within this context, the Mobile-Blended Collaborative Learning model has been integrated in and out of the classroom learning in order to enable lan...

This paper reports on a part of a case study of a set of English foreign language learners who participated in a project work involving both synchronous and asynchronous collaborative interactions mediated through a social messaging application, WhatsApp. The purpose of the study was to explore how the students who usually experience lack of exposu...

The ubiquitous use of mobile devices for informal learning has aroused attention in foreign language learning context recently. As learning a foreign language poses a number of challenges for the students, it has become indispensable to search for ‘optimal’ conditions to enhance opportunities of engaging in the target language. Within this context,...