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Direct linkBozkurt, Aras; Karakaya, Kadir; Turk, Murat; Karakaya, Özlem; Castellanos-Reyes, Daniela – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
The rapid and unexpected onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic has generated a great degree of uncertainty about the future of education and has required teachers and students alike to adapt to a new normal to survive in the new educational ecology. Through this experience of the new educational ecology, educators have learned many lessons,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Bibliometrics, Electronic Learning
Download full textUcar, Hasan; Bozkurt, Aras; Zawacki-Richter, Olaf – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2021
Research indicates that academic procrastination is a common attitude among learners, and that it generally has a negative correlation with academic performance. The present quantitative causal-comparative study aims to determine the cause of differences, in terms of procrastination tendency, in academic performance among online learners. The…
Descriptors: Time Management, Study Habits, Correlation, Academic Achievement
Stracke, Christian M.; Sharma, Ramesh Chander; Bozkurt, Aras; Burgos, Daniel; Cassafieres, Cécile Swiatek; dos Santos, Andreia Inamorato; Mason, Jon; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Shon, Jin Gon; Wan, Marian; Agbu, Jane-Frances Obiageli; Farrow, Robert; Karakaya, Özlem; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Ramírez-Montoya, María Soledad; Conole, Grainne; Cox, Glenda; Truong, Vi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
In terms of scale, shock, and disenfranchisement, the disruption to formal education arising from COVID-19 has been unprecedented. Anecdotally, responses from teachers and educators around the world range from heightened caution to being inspired by distance education as the "new normal." Of all the challenges, face-to-face and formal…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Open Education, Distance Education
Bozkurt, Aras – Online Submission, 2020
This paper revisits theoretical and conceptual lenses of distance education in order to identify the current state of the art and explore what do we have and then what do we need to provide meaningful learning experiences. The paper argues that the knowledge and experiences gained in the field of distance education provide working solutions and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Instructional Design, Student Motivation, Definitions
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
Bozkurt, Aras; Akbulut, Yavuz – Open Praxis, 2019
Dropout is a major concern in networked learning practices, however, little is known about the issue within the perspective of cultural contexts. On this basis, cultural context and dropout patterns were examined through a mixed-methods approach in which social network analysis and two-way between-group comparisons (culture vs. dropout) were…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Characteristics, Cultural Context, Online Courses
Duzenli, Hulya; Ozdamar, Nilgun; Bozkurt, Aras – Online Submission, 2019
Being a complex social process, open and distance learning includes many different dynamics and interaction elements. Activity theory provides a comprehensive framework for understanding complex human interactions and the lack of appropriate methods to address the complexity of online learning environments. The main purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Open Education, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
Bozkurt, Aras – Distance Education, 2019
Distance education (DE) is a constantly evolving and advancing field, and as such, its intellectual network and dynamics need to be investigated and explored. In this regard, this study reviewed a total of 1685 articles and 51,940 references through social network analysis for a bibliometric examination of the DE field. The findings indicate that…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Open Education, Bibliometrics, Interdisciplinary Approach
Bozkurt, Aras; Keefer, Jeffrey – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
The purpose of this research is to better understand community formation in MOOCs through employing combined lenses of connectivism, rhizomatic learning, actor-network theory, community of practice, and community of inquiry. In a sequential explanatory mixed methodology design, social network analysis and nethnography were used to analyze and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Social Networks, Network Analysis, Communities of Practice
Kocdar, Serpil; Okur, M. Recep; Bozkurt, Aras – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
This study intends to examine the xMOOCs offered by one of the mainstream MOOC platforms in Conole's 12 dimensions. For this purpose, the research employed an embedded single case study using heuristic inquiry to collect data. The researchers participated in three xMOOCs and took into consideration the characteristics of these MOOCs by rating them…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Case Studies, Heuristics, Inquiry
Firat, Mehmet; Bozkurt, Aras – Educational Media International, 2020
Online learning practices have gained momentum as a result of the developments in network technologies and an increase in the capacity of current technological devices that are used to deliver learning. While up-to-date studies have examined the online learning readiness of traditional higher education learners, there remains a need to examine it…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Learning Readiness, College Students
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
