Browsing by Author "Basarici, Samsun"

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A novel approach to e-learning: Yasar university e-Learning system (YES)
(Academic Conferences Limited info@academic-conferences.org, 2013) Ibrahim Zincir; Melih Zeytinoǧlu; Tohid Ahmed Rana; Samsun Mustafa Basarici; Basarici, Samsun; Zincir, Ibrahim; Rana, Ahmed; Zeytinoglu, Melih
Since 2009 every student who attends Yasar University (Izmir Turkey) regardless of their department has to take part in seven courses (Human Sciences Research Culture Design Culture Aesthetic Culture Ethic Culture Project Culture and a Social Responsibilities Project) defined as University Foundation Courses (UFND). These courses are part of the university's effort to graduate students who are not only hard-working and respectable but also who are responsible and beneficent to society and the environment that they are living in. Approximately 4000 students attend these courses every term which in return results in certain challenges. One of the more pressing challenges is shortage of lecturers and classrooms which is the root of a more visible problem, the complexity and difficulty of the timetable for the whole university. Hence in January 2012 it was decided that a new approach was needed. At the start of the 2012-2013 academic year a novel E-learning system was introduced to offer these seven courses online. Yasar University E-Learning System (YES) differs from its peers in one important aspect: YES assesses the students continuously. YES does this by not only monitoring but also by encouraging them to get involved in the courses much more actively than any other system. In addition to the assessment of the students continuously the new system evaluates the effectiveness of the users of the system by requiring them to attend the offered forums and live discussions with lecturers at least two times a week. This paper discusses the structure and the implementation of YES and the experiences so far. Furthermore the paper draws some comparisons between YES and other popular E-learning systems. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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A Proposal for a Novel e-Learning System for the Visually Impaired
(ACAD CONFERENCES LTD, 2014) Ahmed Rana; Ibrahim Zincir; Samsun Basarici; Basarici, Samsun; Rana, Ahmed; Zincir, Ibrahim; R Orngreen; KT Levinsen
According to World Health Organization (WHO) 285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide: 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision. It is a well-known fact that for the visually impaired it is not possible to access the information via drawings and figures as there is no interpretation. In addition it is not easy to search through a passage for the relevant information as Braille takes much more time to read and finally a lot of memorization is necessary in order to achieve success in life. As standard procedures and systems for education are not sufficient for these people a novel approach is necessary. The recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have placed e-learning at the front row of education methodologies for the disabled. E-learning applications and websites specifically designed for accessibility help to improve the quality of the education without undermining the functionality and the usability. This paper first outlines the challenges and the shortcomings of e-learning schemas for the visually impaired and then proposes a novel touch screen application implemented via an effective and interactive user-friendly e-learning system.
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A Proposal for Turkish/German Cross-Language Q&A System
(ACAD CONFERENCES LTD, 2012) Samsun Basarici; Ibrahim Zincir; Sabah Balta; Tohid Ahmed Rana; Basarici, Samsun; Zincir, Ibrahim; Balta, Sabah; Rana, Tohid Ahmed; M Gasco
Over the last decade many approaches have been introduced about Q&A (Question & Answer) Systems. The problem with many of these works is that they mainly implement English as the underlying language. With the tremendous growth of computer usage in daily life and implementation ofe-government systems the need for cross-language Q&A Systems increased enormously especially for immigration countries such as Germany. Beside of Turkey and Turkish speaking countries the biggest Turkish population in Europe is living in Germany. Over the last decade the communication between the administration and this minority has not always been easy. The main approach of the German administration is enforcing this minority to gain the same language skills like the native speakers (which is not a feasible solution aspast experiences showed). This paper introduces an onlineconcept for cross-language Q&A System which accepts both Turkish and German as the underlying languages to guide the community members to the appropriate person inside the e-government systems.
Analysis of e-Learning outcomes at higher education: A case study
(Academic Conferences Limited info@academic-conferences.org, 2014) Ibrahim Zincir; Tohid Ahmed Rana; Samsun Mustafa Basarici; Sabah Balta; Basarici, Samsun; Zincir, Ibrahim; Balta, Sabah; Rana, Tohid Ahmed; K.T. Levinsen , R. Orngreen
As explained in our paper "A Novel Approach To E-Learning: Yasar University E-Learning System (YES)" (Zincir et al. 2013) since 2009 every student who attends Yasar University (Izmir Turkey) regardless of their department has to take part in seven courses defined as University Foundation Courses (UFND). These courses are part of the university's effort to graduate students who are not only hard-working and respectable but also who are responsible and beneficent to society and the environment that they are living in. Since approximately 4000 students attend these courses every term in academic year 2012-2013 an E-learning system called Yasar University E-Learning System (YES) was introduced to take these courses online. It was a novel approach that encourages the students to get involved in the courses much more actively since it grades them according to their learning behaviors. Basically YES monitors all the activities of the students all the time once they are connected to the system. These activities include how and when they access the information supplied materials forums and chat rooms. This paper discusses the outcomes & the outputs of YES by presenting a brief insight into the behavior of the students inside an e-learning environment and by analyzing the correlation between the success of the students and the way they interact with YES. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
ELCARE: A Novel Approach for Educating Caretakers of Elderly
(ACAD CONFERENCES LTD, 2015) Ibrahim Zincir; Samsun Basarici; Ahmed Rana; Fisun Senuzun; Basarici, Samsun; Zincir, Ibrahim; Senuzun, Fisun; Rana, Ahmed; A Jefferies; M Cubric
Elderly care or simply eldercare is the fulfillment of the special needs and requirements that are unique to senior citizens. Elderly care emphasizes the social and personal requirements of senior citizens who need some assistance for daily activities and health care but who desire to age with dignity. With the improvements made in health technologies the life expectancy in EU is increasing and more than 80 million people are aged over 60 in Europe today. Experts believe that the increasing number of elderly people who need help with basic tasks but have been left to struggle by an unprecedented withdrawal of state-funded social care create a huge problem, lack of nurses/caretakers for the elderly. This paper discusses an e-learning system for elderly care that simply educates/trains the people who want to take care of the elderly, either those who want to become professional caretakers or those who are volunteers or social workers. The novel system inherits web and mobile apps and will be deployed multilingual. The main goal of the system is to increase the social intellectual and cognitive abilities of the target group like increasing the patience devotion physical endurance etc. The system is buildup of modules that have a linear character i.e. user has to pass a module successfully in order to proceed to the next one.
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Improving Employee Performance Using Web-Based Application for Public Services
(ACAD CONFERENCES LTD, 2012) Tohid Ahmed Rana; Sabah Balta; Ibrahim Zincir; Samsun Basarici; Basarici, Samsun; Zincir, Ibrahim; Balta, Sabah; Rana, Tohid Ahmed; M Gasco
One of the vital problems of public services is the deficiency of well-educated and highly motivated employees. The attitudes and performance of public servants have a crucial importance on the satisfaction of the customer relationships where in this context customers are the citizens. Thus well-trained and highly motivated employees are indispensable elements of governmental services as a priority. Therefore controlling public servants' professional improvements performances and their vocational capacities are the key factors to provide high quality services. Consequently a good training and tracking system for employees can provide useful data about current level of employee performance to the state and the data produced by the system can be used to promote employees. Current online training systems do not monitor their members continuously but only evaluate them for that specific instance which in return does not help much in improving employee performance. In this paper we propose an eLearning system to improve performance of public servants. The system combines exterior website and interior management systems to provide complete and effective information and service.
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The Security and the Credibility Challenges in e-Voting Systems
(ACAD CONFERENCES LTD, 2015) Ahmed Rana; Ibrahim Zincir; Samsun Basarici; Basarici, Samsun; Rana, Ahmed; Zincir, Ibrahim; N Abouzakhar
E-voting is one of the most emerging social innovations of the 21st century which is being adopted by many countries since it represents the peak of e-government solutions and also enables an easier way to vote for their citizens and expatriates. In addition e-voting systems will not only increase the amount of voters' participation but also will decrease the total cost of electoral process. The main concern with the e-voting system is security. Unlike any other offence it is first difficult to observe ambiguities in voting and also it is much more difficult to locate the lost or to detect the rigged votes. Challenges such as how to authenticate the voter how to securely cast his/her vote and then how to store and to count these votes without outside influence generate whole scrutiny over the e-voting systems. This paper first discusses these challenges and then proposes a unique approach to ensure public confidence and credibility over the electoral systems. This proposal inherits 2 independent modules, first module to verify authentication by implementing an e-government application and smartphone to identify a registered voter. After the completion of successful validation the second module that provides anonymity to the voter similar to TOR (The Onion Router) will be activated to cast the e-ballot.