Nil Göksel

Anadolu University · School of Foreign Languages

As information and communication technologies and learner characteristics in higher education develop, so do distance education methods, which are implemented at various levels by higher education institutions. The involvement of students in the learning process is one of the most crucial factors to consider throughout the distance education applic...

This study's objectives are to assess the demographic and technological readiness of Eskişehir Province secondary school students (grades 9-12) for online learning in the context of these characteristics. The study, which was constructed using the cross-sectional survey model, the study's link was distributed to all high school students enrolled in...

Kişilerin ses kayıtlarını dinlediği önemli mecralardan biri, açık ve uzaktan öğrenme alanıdır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, Anadolu Üniversitesi Açıköğretim Sisteminde öğrenim gören bireylerin sesli malzeme kullanımlarını çeşitli açılardan incelemektir. Kişilerin sesli malzemeler hakkındaki fikirleri, malzemeleri kullanım tercihleri, malzemeleri kullanmaya...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, çevrim içi ölçme-değerlendirme etkinliklerinde kimlik tanıma ve doğrulaması yapılmasını sağlayacak bir sistemin kullanımının, öğrencilerin görüşlerini ne yönde etkilediğini ve öğrencilerin kullanım deneyimlerini belirlemektir. Çalışma, Y tarafından finanse edilen Z Programı çerçevesinde X Projesi (XXXXXXXX) kapsamında gerçekleş...

Information and communication technologies have been transforming the way we teach and learn. Either for facilitating teaching practices or for making learning more interesting and joyful for the learners, artificial intelligence-based applications are utilized in recent years. In this connection, this study intends to examine if automated feedback...

Distance learners can be accepted as autonomous, self-regulated learners who can design their own learning processes since they are active users of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). With this perspective, the first aim of this study was to detect the usage frequency of self-regulated learning skills and digital literacy skills; and to...

This study aims to examine to what extent are the students aware of the AI based systems used in language learning. The design of the study was determined as a quantitative research method. For this purpose, a web-based questionnaire was applied to 204 students with A1 and A2 English levels enrolled in the Open Education Faculty, and thus data were...

Amid the vast spread of the coronavirus pandemic, educational institutions have shifted to online learning across the world. In this connection, people of different cultures are experiencing a rigid period in which mainly school administrators, instructors, and students have to teach and learn at a distance due to corona restrictions. In this conte...

We live in a period when schools are involuntarily closed; human life gradually slowed down and came to a halt due to a pandemic, but distance education is already underway. While some higher education institutions have been struggling to meet distance education, the ones that have currently provided distance education in many parts of the world co...

As the world closed schools due to the pandemic, distance education became the lifeline for connecting teaching and learning. For the pandemic, there were additional variables encountered, such as the rapid timeframe, the large number of faculty and students involved, lack of infrastructure, lack of online teaching experience, unknown perspectives...

Internet paved the way for educational technologies which have gradually gained importance in the field of education and has passed the learning responsibility to the student. Succeeding this phase, Personal Learning Environments has gained a significance to support students’ active role of in organizing their own learning within online platforms....

Education community has once again understood how important open and distance learning applications are, as education is limited to the home with the effect of the global pandemic. In fact, some institutions, which have been planning to take steps towards digitalization, suddenly had to switch to emergency remote teaching applications with the effe...

This study offers an explanatory case study research that reflects on how the motivational design based supplementary activities are used in a social network site, namely Facebook, affect online EFL learners' process of learning. The participants consisted of 105 online EFL learners who contributed to the study on a voluntary basis. The data was ga...

Though only a dream a while ago, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a reality, being now part of our routines and penetrating every aspect of our lives, including education. It is still a field in its infancy, but as time progresses, we will witness how AI evolves and explore its untapped potential. Against this background, this chapter examin...

Mobile Technologies and Augmented Reality in Open Education is edited by Gülsün Kurubacak and Hakan Altınpulluk. The book was published by IGI Global in 2017. The book is 366 pages. The ISBNs of the book are as following: ISBN13: 9781522521105, ISBN10: 1522521100, and EISBN13: 9781522521112. DOI number of the book is: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2110-5

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a sense of community could be enhanced via learning activities delivered through a Facebook group within a self-paced distance-learning course. A closed Facebook group was created for a voluntary English as a foreign language course. Four types of learning activities were delivered via the Facebo...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) designed upon the idea of free, open and worldwide knowledge sharing, have been an out-spread response to global educational needs of distant learners since 2008. In this connection, MOOCs have a pivotal importance for not only providing educational equality for millions, but being a unique opportunity for suppor...

In a technology dominated world, useful and timely information can be accessed quickly via Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs). By the use of these assistants built into mobile operating systems, daily electronic tasks of a user can be accomplished 24/7. Such tasks like taking dictation, getting turn-by-turn directions, vocalizing email messages...

In late 2012, the New York Times called 2013 as the year of the MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses. Over the past two years, MOOCs have been one of the trendiest approaches to teaching online. One of the attractions of a MOOC is the idea of sharing knowledge with a large worldwide audience free of charge in online environments. Another major pote...

This study intends to explore the current trends in the field of distance education research during the period of 2009-2013. The trends were identified by an extensive review of seven peer reviewed scholarly journals: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. 331 articles was reviewed. Mainly content anal...

Lifelong Learning (LLL) has been a remarkable response to people-centered educational demand of 21st century. In order to provide effective formal, non-formal, and informal learning, immersive educational activities undertaken throughout life should be aimed to create a learning society in which people can experience individual and collective learn...