Former Students

Melis Dilek

• Thesis Title: Learners’ Collaboration Experiences in Online Teams and Their Perceptions Towards Teamwork Strategies in an Online Graduate Class (The best master’s thesis award at Bahçeşehir University School of Education)
• Thesis Information: 2022 Masters Thesis PDF
• Purpose: The purpose of the study is to explore graduate learners’ teamwork and collaboration experiences in an online graduate class and understand how learners experience collaboration strategies within groups.

Jihane Amayou

• Thesis Title: Exploring Teachers’ Understanding on Collaborative Learning and Teamwork Strategies in the Design and Skill Labs 
• Thesis Information: 2022 Masters Thesis PDF
• Study Purpose: This study aims to investigate the different understandings of collaborative learning strategies in the maker space environment. Perceptions of field experts will be taken to shape a survey for maker space teachers in order to build and list the strategies and approaches which are proved to be significant and/or should be avoided in a maker space environment in order to make the experience of team work and collaboration beneficial for the learners.

Yasemin Bozdemir

• Thesis itle: The effect of immersive virtual reality use on listening skill in foreign language education
• Thesis Information: 2022 Masters Thesis PDF
• Study Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effects of immersive virtual reality experiences and virtual reality on English listening skills of students in a multidimensional way. 

Derya Taşkın

• Thesis itle: Students’ experiences of flipped classroom approach in an introduction to programming course
• Thesis Information: 2022 Masters Thesis PDF
• Study Purpose: The aim of this study is to comprehend students’ experiences and impressions pertaining to the application of the flipped classroom approach in an online programming course,

Oya Özgün

• Thesis Title: Implementing a Design Framework for Enhancing Student-Centered Learning in an Online Graduate Class 
• Thesis Information: 2021 Masters  Thesis PDF
• Study Purpose: This study aims to investigate online graduate learners’ experiences of the design framework based on “Own it, Learn it, Share it” (OLSit) in a student centered learning environment.

Aslıhan Baran

• Thesis Title: Classroom teachers’ readness, experiences and perceptions of their distance education emerged with the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Thesis Information: 2021 Masters  Thesis PDF
• Study Purpose: This thesis covers the readiness, experiences and opinions of primary school classroom teachers regarding the distance instruction process developed with the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Helin Yıldırım

• Thesis Title: Applying design thinking in technology enhanced problem solving activities 
• Thesis Information: 2020 Masters
• Study Purpose: This thesis aims to have a better understanding of learners’ learning process and perceptions towards Design Thinking. For this purpose, this study implemented problem solving design activities in a technology-enhanced environment.

Elina Boichuk

• Thesis Title: Exploring technology integration in a kindergarten setting through the prism of systems thinking: A phenomenological study 
• Thesis Information: 2020 Masters  Thesis PDF
• Study Purpose: The primary goal of the research is to explore the process of technology integration in a kindergarten setting, including the core enablers of the process, barriers on the way of its successful implementation, and people involved and their interactions through the prism of systems thinking theory.

Simon Stephenson

• Thesis Title: The Effects of Asynchronous Discussion Strategies on Social and Cognitive Presence for Online Graduate Education 
• Thesis Information: 2020 Masters  Thesis PDF
• Study Purpose: The study was designed with the goal of investigating different asynchronous discussion strategies in the literature and applying them to an online post-graduate class to explore the effects each has on the social presence of students within the class, and how this in turn would affect cognitive presence.

Ahmet Demirata

• Thesis Title: Student-Centered and Reformist Learning Environments: Identifying Teacher Competencies and Competency-Related Needs
• Thesis Information: 2020 Masters  Thesis PDF
• Study Purpose: This study aimed to find and point out teachers’ competencies, and competency-based needs to increase the quality of teachers and, hence, the quality of TBA.

Ceren Yeşildağ

• Thesis Title: Applying the personalization principle of multimedia learning theory in second language listening classes
• Thesis Information: 2020 Masters  Thesis PDF
• Study Purpose: This study investigates whether the personalization principle has any effect on L2 listening performance and aims to explore students’ perceptions towards the conversational style. 

Neslihan Kaynar

• Thesis Title: The effects of authentic and interactive video tasks onstudents’ extra listening practices
• Thesis Information: 2019 Masters  Thesis PDF
• Study Purpose: The primary goal of this study is to examine the effects of authentic and interactive video tasks on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ listening practices, perceptions (interest and enjoyment level) regarding using multimedia learning in improving their listening skills.