Educational Technology and Computing

Educational Technology and Computing

Dr. Serap Yılmaz Özelçi lisans eğitimini Selçuk Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesinde, yüksek lisans ve doktora eğitimini de Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Eğitim Programları ve Öğretim Anabilim dalında tamamlamıştır. Halen Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesinde öğretim üyesi olarak görev yapmaktadır. Dr. Yılmaz Özelçi'nin çalışma alanları eğitimde program geliştirme, eğitim felsefesi, düşünme eğitimi, eleştirel düşünme ve öğretimi ve öğretmen yetiştirme programları  konularından oluşmaktadır. 

Dr. Münire Aydilek Çiftçi received her bachelor’s degree in Preschool Teacher Education from Ege University in 2008. She completed her master’s degree in Preschool Education at Çukurova University in 2011 and earned her Ph.D. in 2017. She worked as a preschool teacher between 2008 and 2010. From 2010 to 2017, she served as a research assistant at the Faculty of Education at Çukurova University. Between 2018 and 2022, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Child Development (Undergraduate Program) at Cappadocia University and served as the department chair.

Within the Erasmus Student Exchange Programme, she studied for one semester as an exchange undergraduate student at KATHO–Katholieke Hogeschool Zuid-West Vlaanderen in Belgium. She also participated in special education training at the Maria Grzegorzewska University (Academy of Special Education) in Poland. In 2016, she was a visiting researcher at the Child Development Laboratory at the University of Maryland with the TÜBİTAK 2214-A International Research Fellowship Programme for Ph.D. Students. In 2018, she earned the title and authorization of Creative Drama Trainer/Leader from the Contemporary Drama Association (Çağdaş Drama Derneği). Since 2022, she has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Preschool Education at Necmettin Erbakan University, Ereğli Faculty of Education. Her academic interests include early childhood development and education, creative drama and play in early childhood, and child and family research within multicultural and intercultural frameworks.

Özgen Korkmaz is a professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Science at Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University. Dr. Korkmaz's area of expertise is educational technology. His research interests include computer education, programming education and thinking skills. He is also an expert in scale development.

I hold a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology specializing in educational measurement and assessment from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently, I am a Visiting Faculty and instructor at the University of Alabama. My research interests revolve around Item Response Theory and Rasch model applications in educational and psychological assessment data.

Skills and expertise:

• Educational Measurement
• Computerized Adaptive Testing
• Item Response Theory
• Psychometrics
  
  

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elif Polat serves in the Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Türkiye. She has broad experience in national and international projects funded by the European Union, UNICEF, and TÜBİTAK, focusing on instructional technology, inclusive education, and artificial intelligence in education. She has also published widely in peer-reviewed journals.

Instructional Technology, Inclusive Education, Artificial Intelligence in Education

Doç. Dr. Semiha KULA ÜNVER

Dr. Parlak Rakap earned her undergraduate degree in Preschool Education from Gazi University in 2003. In 2004, she began her integrated PhD studies in the Department of Elementary Education at Middle East Technical University (METU). During her doctoral journey, she conducted research on self-discipline under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Feyza Tantekin Erden. In 2010, she also spent 10 months at Florida State University working with Prof. Dr. Ithel Jones to further her research in Preschool Science Education. She completed her PhD in 2011.
From 2012 to 2022, Dr. Parlak Rakap served as a faculty member in the Division of Preschool Teaching at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University. In 2021–2022, she pursued postdoctoral research at North Carolina State University’s Department of Psychology, where she worked with Prof. Amy Halberstadt in the Family Affect, Beliefs, and Behaviors (FABB) Lab, focusing on respect and gratitude in early childhood.
Her research interests include self-discipline, creative drama, preschool science education, respect in early childhood, preschool disaster resiliency, and special education. Since 2022, she has been a faculty member in the Division of Preschool Education at Bartın University.

Dr. Nehir Yasan Ak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems at Akdeniz University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Computer and Electronic Education from Fırat University. She completed both her master’s and Ph.D. degrees at Middle East Technical University. Her master’s thesis focused on educational policies in the field of Science and Technology Policy Studies, while her doctoral research in Computer Education and Instructional Technology explored mobile phone use for educational purposes among university students. To develop an interdisciplinary perspective, she studied sociology at Anadolu University and earned a second bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Süleyman Demirel University. She is currently pursuing another master’s degree on deep learning-based prediction using histopathological images. Her academic interests include mobile learning, problematic mobile phone use, scale development, and instructional technologies.