AN ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURE GRADUATE COURSE CONDUCTED THROUGH DISTANCE EDUCATION AND ITS IMPACTS ON STUDENT LEARNING PROCESS

Year 2023, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 147 - 164, 31.12.2023

Mehmet Şener , Mehtap Özbayraktar , Neslihan Türkmenoğlu Bayraktar

https://doi.org/10.58317/eksen.1341384

Abstract

A multidisciplinary atelier course conducted through distance education in Kocaeli University Faculty of Architecture Graduate Program in 2020/21 Fall Semester is analyzed in this article concerning the impacts of the alternative and versatile methods followed during the course process on student learning achievement. The aim is to reveal the new pedagogical visions and contributions that the methods of this course can provide to student learning and instructor intervention in architecture graduate education. During the course, the stages of determining the workshop groups, discussing the activities with the groups, and developing suggestions, conducting discussions in the distance education environment on the students' study subjects and activity plans, and delivering the final report based on the activity week process and the products obtained were carried out. The required data, including the evidence of actual learning achievement in this course, is derived from a catechetical survey with 12 students who took the course, while the final statements and inferences of the study are based on the achievements and critics of these students about the course. The results obtained from this survey are reciprocally evaluated with the learning achievement targets that are placed in the course syllabus at the beginning of the semester with concrete numerical values to observe the level of achievement of these learning targets. The learning achievements that students gained most apart from the determined learning achievement targets of the course are the development of presentation abilities of students, the provision of exchange of ideas with students from different departments and with the lecturers apart from their thesis advisors, and the possibility of following the processes of different work items. The findings of this study express that the program and the methods of this course can be instructive for implementing new approaches in post-pandemic distance and face-to-face education of architecture in graduate programs.

Keywords

Alternative distance education, Multidisciplinary atelier course, Architecture graduate education, Flexible/adaptable master's course

Thanks

We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Oya Şenyurt for her contributions to “Master’s Atelier Course 1” and the students of this course (Elif Çelik, Merve Kılınç, Eda Güzelay, Pelin Kartal, Büşra Altın, Meryem Zafer, Müserref Bilge Evren, Alihan Enhoş, Seda Dal, Büşra Başböğer, Murat Kara, Ayşe Tuğçe Balaban, Onur Kuzu, Müjgan Öztürk) for their successful studies in the course and contributions to the survey made for this article.

UZAKTAN EĞİTİM İLE YÜRÜTÜLEN ALTERNATİF BİR MİMARLIK LİSANSÜSTÜ DERSİ VE ÖĞRENCİNİN ÖĞRENME SÜRECİNE DERSİN ETKİLERİ

Abstract

Bu makalede, Kocaeli Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi Yüksek Lisans Programı'nda 2020/21 Öğretim Yılı Güz Yarıyılında uzaktan eğitim yoluyla gerçekleştirilen multidisipliner bir atölye dersi ve dersin yürütülmesi sürecinde izlenen alternatif ve çok yönlü yöntemler, öğrencinin öğrenme başarısına etkisi bağlamında incelenmektedir. Bu derste izlenen yöntemlerin mimarlık lisansüstü eğitiminde öğrencinin öğrenmesine ve eğitmenin müdahalesine katabileceği yeni pedagojik vizyon ve katkıları ortaya koymak, bu çalışmanın temel amacıdır. Ders sürecinde sırasıyla atölye gruplarının belirlenmesi, gruplar ile etkinliklerin görüşülmesi ve öneriler geliştirilmesi, öğrencilerin çalışma konuları ve etkinlik planları üzerine uzaktan eğitim ortamında tartışmalar yürütülmesi, etkinlik haftası süreci ve elde edilen ürünler üzerinden final raporunun teslimi aşamaları gerçekleştirilmiştir. Derste öğrenme başarısının sağlandığına dair kanıtları içeren veriler, dersi alan 12 öğrenciyle soru-cevap yöntemiyle gerçekleştirilen bir anket ile elde edilmiştir. Öğrenme hedeflerine ulaşma noktasındaki başarı düzeyini gözlemleyebilmek için bu anketten elde edilen sonuçlar ile dönem başında ders izlencesinde yer verilen öğrenme başarı hedefleri karşılıklı olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Dersin belirlenen öğrenme başarı hedefleri dışında, öğrencilerin en çok elde ettiği öğrenme kazanımları; öğrencilerin sunum yeteneklerinin geliştirilmesi, farklı bölümlerdeki öğrencilerle ve tez danışmanı dışındaki öğretim elemanlarıyla fikir alışverişinin sağlanması ve farklı iş kalemlerinin süreçlerini takip etme olanağı bulmaları olmuştur. Çalışmada ulaşılan bulgu ve sonuçlar, bu dersin programının pandemi sonrası uzaktan ve yüz yüze mimarlık lisansüstü eğitiminde yeni yaklaşımların hayata geçirilmesi için yol gösterici olabileceğini ortaya koymuştur.

Keywords

Alternatif uzaktan eğitim, Multidisipliner atölye dersi, Mimarlık lisansüstü eğitimi, Esnek/uyarlanabilir yüksek lisans dersi

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