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Bozkurt, Aras; Sharma, Ramesh C. – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2022
For many people, digital transformation offers a great opportunity to keep pace with the requirements of the current age, while for others, it is all hype and needs to be approached with caution. However, be it opportunity or hype, digital transformation impacts every part of our human life, where we especially see and experience it in numerous…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Strategies, Educational Change
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Yilmaz Özden, Sule; Hamutoglu, Nazire Burçin; Kiyici, Mübin; Bozkurt, Aras – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
Considering the increasing importance of educational technologies and the debates about the role of technology in education, it is of great importance to reveal research trends in educational technologies. It is also possible to present the big picture of trends and the comparative role of the UK in this picture, which is one of the main countries…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Educational Research, Trend Analysis
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Bozkurt, Aras – Journal of Learning for Development, 2022
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been a global crisis, affecting many areas of society, including higher education, which has not been immune to its effects. This study, therefore, examines COVID-19 from the perspective of higher education, applying data mining and analytics approaches, i.e., t-SNE analysis, text-mining, and social network…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Sustainability, Resilience (Psychology)
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Bozkurt, Aras; Durak, Gürhan – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2018
Gamification is an innovative approach that aims to increase users' engagement and motivation and provide sustainable experiences. It has recently become widely known and is an approach that is being used in many fields. This article intends to identify and map trends and patterns in gamification research. For this purpose, this article employs a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Literature Reviews, Educational Research
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Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Bozkurt, Aras; Alturki, Uthman; Aldraiweesh, Ahmed – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Since the first offering of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in 2008, the body of literature on this new phenomenon of open learning has grown tremendously. In this regard, this article intends to identify and map patterns in research on MOOCs by reviewing 362 empirical articles published in peer-reviewed journals from 2008 to 2015. For the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Technology, Large Group Instruction, Technology Uses in Education
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Tlili, Ahmed; Huang, Ronghuai; Shehata, Boulus; Liu, Dejian; Zhao, Jialu; Metwally, Ahmed Hosny Saleh; Wang, Huanhuan; Denden, Mouna; Bozkurt, Aras; Lee, Lik-Hang; Beyoglu, Dogus; Altinay, Fahriye; Sharma, Ramesh C.; Altinay, Zehra; Li, Zhisheng; Liu, Jiahao; Ahmad, Faizan; Hu, Ying; Salha, Soheil; Abed, Mourad; Burgos, Daniel – Smart Learning Environments, 2022
The Metaverse has been the centre of attraction for educationists for quite some time. This field got renewed interest with the announcement of social media giant Facebook as it rebranding and positioning it as Meta. While several studies conducted literature reviews to summarize the findings related to the Metaverse in general, no study to the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Technology Uses in Education, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Benefits
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Bozkurt, Aras; Akgün-Özbek, Ela; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
To fully understand the phenomenon of massive open online courses (MOOCs), it is important to identify and map trends and patterns in research on MOOCs. This study does so by reviewing 362 empirical articles published in peer-reviewed journals from 2008 to 2015. For the purpose of this study, content analysis and discourse analysis were employed…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Aydin, Cengiz Hakan; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf; Bozkurt, Aras – Online Submission, 2020
This paper presents a review of distance education literature published in the "Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education" ("TOJDE") to describe the status thereof and to identify gaps and priority areas in distance education research based on a validated classification of research areas. The articles (N=784) published…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Distance Education, Classification, Journal Articles
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Bozkurt, Aras; Ataizi, Murat – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2015
English is one of the most spoken languages in the world and widely accepted as a foreign language in many parts of the world. However, though there has been a high demand for English as a foreign language in the 21st century, it has still been taught or learned through traditional methods and conventional pedagogical approaches. In the digital…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Conventional Instruction, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Bozkurt, Aras – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2022
The blending learning model, a combination of onsite and online learning modalities formulated by relevant pedagogies, modalities, and technologies, offers learning experiences that involve the different factors shaping each modality, such as time, space, path, and pace, through sequential or parallel designs. In its relatively short history, this…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Reports
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Bozkurt, Aras; Bozkaya, Mujgan – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
The aim of this mixed method study is to identify evaluation criteria for interactive e-books. To find answers for the research questions of the study, both quantitative and qualitative data were collected through a four-round Delphi study with a panel consisting of 30 experts. After that, a total of 20 interactive e-books were examined with…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Electronic Publishing, Books, Handheld Devices