COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CURRENT APPROACHES IN OPEN AND DISTANCE EDUCATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EBT 6012 CURRENT APPROACHES IN OPEN AND DISTANCE EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Educational Technologies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Educational Technologies

Course Objective

In purpose of this course, students will recognize the open and distance education, interpret and synthesis the current paradigms, absorb the current technologies and systems in open and distance education, write bulletin or review/research article related to original issue or research problem in open and distance education.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Recognize the fields of open and distance education.
2   Interpret the current issues and researches in the fields of open and distance education.
3   Synthesis the information which belongs the fields of open and distance education.
4   Write bulletin or review/research article related to original issue in the field of open and distance education.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Field and application of Open Education
2 Field and application of Distance Education
3 Current paradigms in Open and Distance Education
4 ICT in Open and Distance Education
5 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
6 Open Educational Resources
7 Mid-term exam
8 The samples of Open Educational Resources and Massive Open Online Courses from Turkey and worldwide
9 E-management in Open and Distance Education
10 Learning management systems
11 Online course design principles
12 Success indicators and online evaluation in Open and Distance Education
13 Certificates and badges in Open and Distance Education
14 Future of in Open and Distance Education
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Seely Brown, J. (2008). Open education, the long tail, and learning 2.0.Educause review, 43(1), 16-20.
Selwyn, N. (2012). Education in a digital world: Global perspectives on technology and education. Routledge.
Bonk, C. J., Lee, M. M., Reeves, T. C., & Reynolds, T. H. (Eds.). (2015).MOOCs and open education around the world. Routledge.
Beldarrain, Y. (2006). Distance education trends: Integrating new technologies to foster student interaction and collaboration. Distance education, 27(2), 139-153.
Moore, M. G. (Ed.). (2013). Handbook of distance education. Routledge.
Bates, T. (2014). The Role of Technology in Distance Education (Routledge Revivals). Routledge.
Harry, K., John, M., & Keegan, D. (Eds.). (2013). Distance education: new perspectives. Routledge.
Breslow, L., Pritchard, D. E., DeBoer, J., Stump, G. S., Ho, A. D., & Seaton, D. T. (2013). Studying learning in the worldwide classroom: Research into edX's first MOOC. Research & Practice in Assessment, 8.
Caswell, T., Henson, S., Jensen, M., & Wiley, D. (2008). Open content and open educational resources: Enabling universal education. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 9(1).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Group works, review-discuss the sample applications, report preparation and presentation, writing bulletin-article.

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Homework and presentations, discussion, review the sample applications.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dr.Öğr.Üyesi Elif Buğra KUZU DEMIR
Bilgisayar ve Öğretim Teknolojileri Eğitimi Bölümü,
Hasan Ali Yücel Binası, Kat-3
elif.demir@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 8 104
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 207

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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