An Example of STEM Education in Turkey and Distance Education for Sustainable STEM Learning
Abstract
Global competition, which affects the future of all living things on earth, relies on the
economic powers of countries. Education, on the other hand, is the most sensible investment that
countries can make for their future. Having emerged from these considerations, STEM education aims
to raise the knowledge and skills acquired by students to the synthesis and evaluation stages in
Bloom’s taxonomy with an interdisciplinary perspective. The first aim of this two-stage multiple case
study was to explore STEM education project in Kayseri, Turkey, and evaluate on site by determining
the opinions of all the stakeholders. The results from the first stage were related to readiness,
practices, problems, and suggestions regarding STEM education. Considering the pivotal role of
technology among other STEM education disciplines, the fact that this new generation of learners,
also called digital natives, take this education only face-to-face in schools is an element that will
affect its sustainability. Based on this premise, the second aim of this study was to explore the
feasibility, sustainability, and extensibility of distance STEM education based on distance education’s
expert opinions. The results from the second stage had implications for the design and implementation
of STEM education. Conducted based on the opinions of almost all relevant stakeholders, this study
includes an example of STEM education practice implemented in Turkey and multidimensional
evaluations of delivery of STEM education via distance education.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Gizem Tekin Poyraz
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This is me
0000-0002-8257-0108
Türkiye
Publication Date
October 31, 2019
Submission Date
June 23, 2019
Acceptance Date
September 30, 2019
Published in Issue
Year 2019 Volume: 7 Number: 4