The Effects of Teaching Programming via Scratch on Problem Solving Skills: A Discussion from Learners' Perspective

Filiz Kalelioglu; Yasemin Gülbahar

Informatics in Education Vol. 13, No. 1 (2014) pp. 33–50

Computer programming is perceived as an important competence for the development of problem solving skills in addition to logical reasoning. Hence, its integration throughout all educational levels, as well as the early ages, is considered valuable...

Competencies for e-Instructors: How to Qualify and Guarantee Sustainability

Yasemin Gulbahar; Filiz Kalelioglu

Contemporary Educational Technology Vol. 6, No. 2 (2015) pp. 140–154

e-Learning is becoming more popular than ever with the advent of new technologies and new inventions for teaching and learning. Hence, competent e-Instructors are key to successful e-Learning implementations and they should have the appropriate...

Teaching Computational Thinking to In-Service Computer Science Teachers through a Massive Open Online Course

Yasemin Gulbahar; Filiz Kalelioglu; Serhat Bahadir Kert

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 922–928

Having gained popularity in recent years, the computational thinking concept has become an important subject of computer science education for students of all ages. Moreover, with the revision of computing course curricula for K-12 in most countries,...

Topics: Lifelong, informal, and nontraditional learning, MOOC’s, Open Teaching, and Open Educational Resources, Computational Skills

Pre-service Teachers’ Opinions and Thoughts about “Instructional Technology and Material Development Course”

Ismahan Arslan-Ari; Filiz Kalelioglu; Fatih Ari

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 1710–1717

This study aims to examine the pre-service teachers’ opinions and thoughts as well as their future plans in their professions about developing and using instructional materials to be used in their lessons after experiencing a “Instructional...

Development and Evaluation of an Interactive WebQuest Environment: "Web Macerasi"

Yasemin Gulbahar; R Orcun Madran; Filiz Kalelioglu

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 13, No. 3 (2010) pp. 139–150

This study was conducted to develop a web-based interactive system, Web Macerasi, for teaching-learning and evaluation purposes, and to find out the possible effects of this system. The study has two stages. In the first stage, a WebQuest site was...