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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.
A proposal for a novel e-learning system for the visually impaired
(Academic Conferences Limited info@academic-conferences.org, 2014) Tohid Ahmed Rana; Ibrahim Zincir; Samsun Mustafa Basarici; K.T. Levinsen , R. Orngreen
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. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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.
Challenges in analyzing unstructured learner generated qualitative big data
(Academic Conferences Limited info@academic-conferences.org, 2015) Ozlem Ozan; Ozan, Ozlem; M. Cubric , A. Jefferies
As the amount of educational data grows a necessity is occurring to define characteristics of Unstructured Learner Generated Qualitative Big Data (ULGQBD) and develop a conceptual framework to analyze these data sets. According to the author there are three main challenges in analyzing ULGQBD. First one is related to qualitative big data itself. There is an ambiguity of definition and methodology of analyzing ULGQBD. The answer of the question How much amount of qualitative data is big? is blurry. Therefore there is no a simple straightforward specific methodology to overcome the struggles originated from seeking the meaning within such a big amount of unstructured data. Second problem is absence of conceptual frameworks for analyzing ULGQBD. Third problem is related to Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) software. Traditional QDA software is not ready to big amount of data and cloud based text analytics tools do not have enough language support for stemming for agglutinative languages such as Turkish. In this paper author shares her experience of analyzing ULGQBD. The data set which she worked on contained 13000 responses to an open ended survey whose main purpose to get feedback about the courses from the customers to improve educational effectiveness. She provides a framework for structural coding of ULGQBD and brief road map for researchers who deals with ULGQBD. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
ELCARE: A novel approach for educating caretakers of elderly
(Academic Conferences Limited info@academic-conferences.org, 2015) Ibrahim Zincir; Samsun Mustafa Basarici; Tohid Ahmed Rana; Fisun Senuzun Aykar; M. Cubric , A. Jefferies
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. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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