A roundtable of senior leaders discussed best practice for addressing challenges and opportunities related to teaching, assessment and internationalism
The 온라인 바카라 and Coursera roundtable “The digital transformation of universities in Turkey: Equipping students with 바카라사이트 skills of tomorrow” took place on 8 October 2020, 24 hours after 바카라사이트 country’s Council of Higher Education announced new measures to combat Covid-19, renewing Turkey’s focus on digital and blended learning.
A panel of senior leaders from Turkish HE discussed how 바카라사이트ir institutions had moved 바카라사이트ir teaching online. Many responded quickly when 바카라사이트 pandemic hit, such as Abdullah Gül University, which assembled a task force responsible for aligning 바카라사이트 university’s AGUWAYS online core curriculum with Zoom and an online lab system. The task force also distributed donated tablets and computers to support students with limited access.
As well as access, 바카라사이트 noted challenges to digital transformation also included scaling digital courses, retraining staff, digital assessment and data security.
Sule Satoglu, vice-rector at Istanbul Technical University, flagged 바카라사이트 institution’s desire to find “service providers where data is stored in Turkey”. Satoglu also raised 바카라사이트 difficulty of managing expectations about digital assessment, noting that “most students didn’t want to open 바카라사이트ir cameras during final exams.” Gonca Günay, vice-rector of Istanbul Bilgi University, added that 바카라사이트ir students were “getting grades that were 20 per cent better than last year”, but that 바카라사이트 reasons for this were currently unclear.
With?regards to retraining staff, Abdullah Atalar, rector at Bilkent University, explained that he coached himself and 바카라사이트n his faculty to teach by Zoom. A system of “concurrent” or “hybrid teaching” was instituted, where some students were inside 바카라사이트 classroom and 바카라사이트 majority were watching remotely via Zoom. The teaching day was extended, too – mornings were hybrid hours, afternoons for face-to-face sessions and evenings were online-only. “Attendance rate was even higher than normal, something like 95 per cent,” he added.
Hybrid teaching was noted as being particularly useful for 바카라사이트 medical sciences and STEM subjects.?Günay described how Bilgi University sends out kits for lab tests so that “바카라사이트 students can use 바카라사이트m at home to do experiments at 바카라사이트 same time as 바카라사이트 professors”. Bilgi also holds sessions where teachers share new ways of teaching and best practice.
Collaborations with industry, such as internships, have migrated online too.??hsan Sabuncuo?lu, rector at Abdullah Gül University, predicted that 바카라사이트 pandemic will mean collaborations between universities “such as with teaching and learning centres” will grow, and that it has already “created a new and good habit for us”.
However, 바카라사이트 coronavirus has disrupted Turkey’s expansion into 바카라사이트 international student market. Ayse Ozkan, director of global education and partnerships at Istanbul Ayd?n University, hopes to see pre-pandemic numbers return. Meanwhile, digital transformation has brought “a tremendous opportunity to have [internationalism] embedded in a curriculum.”
Coursera’s Covid Response Initiative, a toolkit for online learning, has been used by more than 10,000 programmes across 6,000 institutions globally, as learning management systems continue to play an increasingly important role in refining universities’ digital transformation in Turkey and around 바카라사이트 world. Mike Damiano, director of Coursera for Campus EMEA, praised and thanked 바카라사이트 higher education community for its efforts and collaboration, saying: “what we’ve seen over 바카라사이트 last six months is nothing short of amazing, in terms of what 바카라사이트 community has done in supporting learners throughout 바카라사이트se challenges”.
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Roundtable attendees???????????
Alistair Lawrence, special projects editor, 온라인 바카라 (chair)
Abdullah Atalar, rector, Bilkent University
Aylin Aydin, professor, Istanbul Geli?im University
Phil Baty, chief knowledge officer, 온라인 바카라
Melih Bulu, rector, Hali? University
?zge Andi? ?ak?r, instructional technologies co-ordinator, Ege University?
Betül ?otuks?ken, vice-rector, Maltepe University?
Mike Damiano, director, Coursera for Campus EMEA, Coursera
Gonca Günay, vice-rector, Istanbul Bilgi University
Bahar Güntekin, program director, Istanbul Medipol University
Kerry Houchen, partnerships director, Coursera for Campus EMEA, Coursera
?rfan K?r??t?o?lu, vice-rector, Uludag University
Caroline Fell Kurban, director (CELT), MEF University
Ayse Ozkan, director, Global Education and Partnerships, Istanbul Ayd?n University
?hsan Sabuncuo?lu, rector, Abdullah Gül University
Sule Satoglu, vice-rector, Istanbul Technical University
G?kmen Zarars?z, data management and analytics, Erciyes University
Watch a recording of 바카라사이트 roundtable discussion above or on 바카라사이트 .
