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- MakaleYalnız künye2026Scopus SJRQ1Exploring research themes in the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science: Insights from topic modelings
Aslan, Alper; Özyurt, Özcan
This study aims to explore research interests and trends in the journal by analyzing the entire publication history of the Journal of Library and Information Science (JoLIS) between 1969 and 2023 using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). A comprehensive topic modeling analysis was conducted on 1437 articles for which titles, abstracts and keywords were available. The research focuses on identifying key thematic shifts in the journal’s publications. The findings highlight that topics such as Information Literacy & Research and Librarian Roles & Skills are growing in importance, while traditional topics such as Cataloging & Classification are declining. The results reveal shifts in the focus of the LIS field, providing critical insights to guide future research. In particular, Information Literacy & Research emerges as a highly accelerating topic, reflecting the need for digital competencies in response to evolving information environments. Meanwhile, declining interest in Cataloging & Classification is in line with the automation of traditional library functions, shifting training priorities toward digital literacy and data management skills. By mapping the evolution of research priorities, this study serves as a valuable resource for LIS researchers and practitioners, helping them to align their work with future developments in the field.
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İncele - MakaleAçık Erişim2026Scopus SJRQ1Technology Acceptance in Sustainable Distance Education
Akti Aslan, Seda; Çekmez, Erdem; Ayaz, Ahmet; Özyurt, Özcan; Aslan, Alper
This study aims to examine the thematic structure and temporal evolution of the literature on technology acceptance in distance education using the Structural Topic Modeling method. Peer-reviewed articles indexed in the Scopus database between 2016 and 2025 were included in the analysis, yielding 18 consistent thematic clusters. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) Core Constructs and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)/Partial Least Squares (PLS) Methodology emerged as the most prevalent themes, reflecting the field’s sustained reliance on quantitative model-testing approaches. Trend analyses revealed a pronounced decline in TAM Core Constructs, while Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and Extensions, Hybrid and Emergency Remote Teaching, and Mobile and AI Applications demonstrated significant upward trends. The period comparison showed that pandemic-related themes became markedly prominent in the 2021–2025 period. Topic correlation analysis indicated the presence of competing temporal niches within the literature. Taken together, the findings suggest that research on technology acceptance in distance education is undergoing a structural transition from single-framework TAM dominance toward a multi-model, context-sensitive research paradigm. These findings carry important implications for the sustainable development of technology-enhanced distance education ecosystems and offer evidence-based guidance for researchers and policymakers committed to building inclusive and adaptive educational systems.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2026Scopus SJRQ1Generative Artificial Intelligence in Education: Conceptual Dimensions, Trends, and Research Directions
Akti Aslan, Seda; Ayaz, Ahmet; Ozyurt, Ozcan; Aslan, Alper
Research into generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in the field of education has been growing rapidly in recent years. The rapid expansion of the literature has necessitated a systematic examination of the field. In this study, the thematic structure of GenAI research in the field of education during the 2023–2025 period was examined. Given the need to work with a large-scale dataset comprising 15,036 studies, a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)-based topic modelling analysis was selected. A search conducted on Scopus resulted in the inclusion of 15,036 studies in the analysis. The LDA analysis identified 12 prominent topics based on consistency scores. Descriptively, these prominent topics were grouped under four broad thematic areas. Among these axes, the technical axis holds the largest share (25%). It was observed that whilst technical topics were on the rise during the 2023–2025 period, topics such as ethics and chatbots showed a relative downward trend. The observed trends suggest that scholarly attention is increasingly directed towards technically oriented research. The findings also indicate a need for theoretical frameworks to ensure pedagogical depth. It is anticipated that the study’s findings will serve as an important reference point for future research. © The Author(s) 2026. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
- EditoryalAçık Erişim2026Scopus SJRQ1Recirculating Foundational Problems: Four Decades of Educational Computing in the JECR Archive (1987–2024)
Aslan, Alper; Akti Aslan, Seda; Turgut, Yiğit Emrah; Allison, Jordan; Özyurt, Özcan
This editorial presents a structured synthesis of the thematic development of the Journal of Educational Computing Research (JECR) from 1987 to 2024, drawing on a computational analysis of 1,597 articles. Applying Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), the analysis identifies thirteen thematic structures that reveal both the enduring commitments and the emerging orientations of the journal across nearly four decades. Themes such as problem-solving through programming and self-efficacy in programming education have constituted persistent research agendas since the journal’s earliest volumes, while computational thinking and game-based learning have gained substantial momentum since 2015. These patterns suggest that JECR’s intellectual identity is best understood not as a sequence of discrete topical shifts, but as a sustained process in which a bounded set of foundational problems is repeatedly re-articulated under changing technological and epistemic conditions. The editorial situates this trajectory in relation to contemporary developments in artificial intelligence and educational technology, arguing that the journal’s historical archive offers an indispensable conceptual framework for interpreting present-day transformations.
AtıfScopus1OpenAlex1İncele - MakaleYayıncıda açık erişim2026Scopus SJRQ1Thematic Structure of Pedagogical Agent Studies: LDA Analysis for the Period 2020–2025
Turgut, Yigit Emrah; Aktı Aslan, Seda; Kopuz, Tuba; Aslan, Alper; Allison, Jordan; Özyurt, Özcan
This study examines 2,360 pedagogical agent (PA) articles published between 2020 and 2025 to identify thematic structures, trends, and research gaps through bibliometric analysis and LDA-based topic modeling. The optimal model produced 10 themes (c_v = 0.4767). The dominant themes—Learner Interaction with Virtual Assistants in Education, Student-Centred Learning and Individual Guidance, and NLP Foundations for Pedagogical Agents—account for 51.3% of publications. Trend analyses revealed consistent growth in both Artificial Intelligence and Pedagogical Design in Education and NLP Foundations for Pedagogical Agents, while Learner Interaction with Virtual Assistants in Education reached saturation. Interaction network results showed these themes at the conceptual core of the field, whereas AI-Driven Medical Chatbots, Knowledge-Based Learning Models, and Student Experiences in Intelligent Learning Environments emerged as future research areas. Overall, findings highlight a strong thematic shift toward artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and student-centered learning.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2026Scopus SJRQ1Thematic Evolution of Educational Technology Research: A Large-Scale Topic Modeling Perspective
Aslan, Alper; Aktı Aslan, Seda; Turgut, Yiğit Emrah; Allison, Jordan; Özyurt, Özcan
This study aims to reveal the thematic evolution of the educational technology field by analyzing 17,393 articles published between 2000 and 2024 in ten leading journals using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) based topic modeling. Based on the analysis of title, abstract, and keywords, 20 themes were identified and grouped under seven broader meta-themes such as “Teacher Professional Competence and Technology Adoption”, “Digital and Disciplinary Literacy Development”, and “Immersive and Experiential Learning Technologies”. The model achieved its highest coherence at K = 20 (c_v = 0.4091), and the stability of the thematic structure was supported through additional runs with alternative hyperparameter configurations and expert validation. The findings show that there has been a significant increase in themes such as “Technology Integration”, “Teacher Roles in Online Learning Design”, and “Technology Acceptance and Self-Efficacy” in recent years. Temporal trend and growth analyses indicate that these themes will continue to shape the research landscape in the upcoming years. This holistic approach, which overcomes the contextual limitations of traditional bibliometric analysis, makes a significant contribution to the literature by mapping the last 25 years of scholarly accumulation in educational technology.
AtıfScopus2OpenAlex2İncele - MakaleAçık Erişim2026Scopus SJRQ1The Strategic Use of Instructor Visibility in Educational Videos: An Eye-Tracking Data-Based Study
Türel, Yalın Kılıç; Alpsülün, Mustafa; Yuruk, Süleyman Eren; Aslan, Alper; Kokoç, Mehmet; Polat, Hamza; Öztürk Akca, Cemile; Kurşun, Engin
This study developed an exploratory heuristic decision-support framework for dynamically regulating instructor visibility in instructional videos based on learners’ eye-tracking data. Eye-movement data were collected from 40 university students using a Tobii Pro Fusion while viewing 16 explanatory and procedural instructional videos. Instructor and Learning Content Areas of Interest were analyzed using normalized eye-tracking indicators. Descriptive analyses were complemented by Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, binary logistic regression, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses. Learners allocated significantly greater visual attention to learning content than to the instructor across both video types. Logistic regression identified instructor attention percentage, visit-related metrics, and blink frequency as significant predictors of visibility decisions. ROC analysis showed that instructor attention percentage provided the highest discriminative performance, with an optimal threshold of approximately 30%. Findings suggest that instructor visibility may be particularly appropriate during introductory, summary, and conceptually demanding segments, providing empirically grounded, attention-aware guidance for adaptive instructional video interfaces.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2025Internet skills: a scale adaptation study
Turgut, Yiğit Emrah; Reisoğlu, İlknur; Aslan, Alper; Kopuz, Tuba; Aktaş, Ayşe
This study aims to adapt the Internet Skills Scale, originally developed by Van Deursen et al. in 2016 to the Turkish cultural context and to examine its psychometric properties. The original scale comprises 35 items across five factors. To explore the factor structure in the Turkish context, exploratory factor analysis was conducted with data from 307 internet users. The original 5-factor structure was reduced to four factors due to the analysis. It was determined that all factors explained 68.4% of the variance. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted with 300 participants to test the suitability of the resulting 4-factor structure for Turkish culture. Confirmatory factor analysis results supported the 4-factor structure, and the fit indices indicated acceptable, good, and excellent model fit. Convergent and discriminant validity analyses were also conducted to assess construct validity, and the results were found to be within acceptable ranges. Based on the findings, the 20-item version of the scale was confirmed to be valid and reliable for use within the Turkish context.
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İncele - MakaleAçık Erişim2025Scopus SJRQ1Unveiling 50 years of librarianship research: An innovative study using unsupervised AI techniques
Akti Aslan, Seda; Turgut, Yiğit Emrah; Aslan, Alper; Özyurt, Özcan
In this study, 3646 articles published in the Scopus database between 1975 and 2024 were analyzed to examine the main research themes, trends, and research gaps in the field of librarianship. Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) implemented in Python (Gensim, spaCy, pyLDAvis), a 17-topic model with a coherence score of 0.5266 was generated. The preprocessing steps included tokenization, lemmatization, bigram/trigram construction, and the removal of both general and domain-specific stopwords. The bibliometric analysis showed that most publications were classified under Social Sciences (93%), with the USA (1961 articles) being the leading contributor. Among the identified themes, “Information, Research, and Technology” (10.59%), “Students’ Information Literacy” (9.22%), and “Information Development” (8.23%) emerged as the most prominent, while “Professional Identity and Practice” (3.37%) and “Education and Research Competency” (3.65%) were underrepresented. Trend analyses revealed that technology-related topics have accelerated significantly since 2010, reflecting the digital transformation of librarianship. In contrast, traditional themes such as “Information Development” and “Health and Medical Services” have declined in momentum. The study shows that digitalization and information literacy remain dominant in the field. In addition, it concludes that significant research gaps exist in professional identity, education, and competency development.
AtıfScopus1WoS1İncele - MakaleYalnız künye2025Scopus SJRQ2The role of technological devices in parent-children interactions: The correlated variables of children’s well-being and life satisfaction
Kılıman, Sevinç; Ergün, Naif; Aslan, Alper; Göksu, İdris
This study aims to examine children’s well-being and life satisfaction in terms of various variables related to parents’ and children’s problematic technology usage. Specifically, parent/child responses during their technology use and parents' phubbing and technoference behaviors were considered. The study was conducted with 185 children (8–14) and their parents (mother = 96, father = 89). The data were analyzed by performing correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, t test, and one-way ANOVA. According to the results, there were negative correlations between children’s life satisfaction and age, children’s technological device (smartphone, computer) usage time, and children/parents responding negatively to each other when engaged in technological devices. Children’s well-being was negatively correlated to their age and children/parents responding negatively to each other when engaged in technological devices. A positive correlation was found between children’s life satisfaction and well-being as well as parents’ phubbing and technoference. According to another result, the well-being of children having their own computer was significantly higher than those who do not have a computer. Finally, children/parents responding negatively to each other when engaged in technological devices negatively predicted the children’s life satisfaction and well-being.
AtıfScopus5WoS5OpenAlex6İncele - MakaleAçık Erişim2024Digital Game Addiction From The Perspective of Children Aged 10-14 Years: A Phenomenological Research
Kurşun, Engin; Turgut, Yiğit Emrah; Aslan, Alper; Yaşar, Selva Karaman
The purpose of this study is to reveal the digital game addiction from children’s perspective between the ages of 10 and 14 and how they are affected by digital games. In this context, the phenomenology pattern was adopted. Criterion sampling which is one of the purposeful sampling methods was chosen in the selection of participants. Data collected via individual interviews with 24 children who are included in the sampling were analyzed by using content analysis techniques. Findings showed that the majority of children liken digital game addiction to substance addiction. Children explained that digital games caused addiction because of the several factors such as completing mission, winning the game, passing to the next level and entertaining. It was concluded that digital games affect children academically, socially, physically and psychologically. Besides, while addicted children mostly expressed the effects of “increasing in tendency to violence”, non-addicted children also stated the effects of “entertainment”. It was determined that social isolation and the disruption of family relationships become prominent in the effects of digital games on children’s social life. Furthermore, children stated that digital games cause skeletal and muscular system disorders and weight gain as well as children mostly mentioned eye diseases among the physical effects of digital games.
AtıfOpenAlex3İncele - MakaleYalnız künye2024Scopus SJRQ1Parental mediation in Turkey: The use of mobile devices in early childhood
Aslan, Alper; Turgut, Yigit Emrah
This study aims to investigate the use of mobile devices including smartphones and tablets in terms of mediation types of parents who have young children. In this case study, which is one of the qualitative research methods, criterion sampling was adopted for the selection of the study group. The fact that parents of 4–7-year-old children who use mobile devices is determined as the principal criterion. Twelve children aged 4–7 and their parents participated in the study. Data were collected through child observations and parent interviews. The results indicated that children with the mediation of parental supervision had fewer problematic behaviors in the use of media and faced fewer online risks. Besides, children whose parents have general restrictive mediation were the most likely to exhibit problematic media use behaviors. Children whose parents have active mediation were also the most likely to face Internet risks. It was observed that children frequently played games and watched videos on mobile devices. Most parents considered their children’s use of mobile devices as risky and harmful, while it was considered as useful only by co-using parents. It was found that children’s use of mobile devices causes physical, psychological, communicational, and cognitive issues while improving their academic abilities, interests, and cognitive structures. Nevertheless, it was discovered that parents used mobile devices to convince their children to go through their daily routines such as eating, bathing, and sleeping or calm them down in the workplace or social environments.
AtıfScopus9WoS8OpenAlex13İncele - MakaleAçık Erişim2023Türkiye’deki Ebeveynlerin İnternet Kullanım Alışkanlıkları ve Dijital Okuryazarlık Becerileri Üzerine Bir Araştırma
Kurşun, Engin; Turgut, Yiğit Emrah; Yılmaz, Turkan Karakuş; Aslan, Alper; Bayzan, Şahin; Yıldırım, Önder
Araştırmanın amacı, Türkiye’deki ebeveynlerin internet kullanım alışkanlıklarını, dijital okuryazarlık becerileri araştırmak ve ebeveynlerin çocuklarını dijital risklerden korumadaki arabuluculuk stratejilerini incelemektir. Bu amaçla ebeveynlerin; internette bilgiye erişebilme, gizliliklerini sağlayabilme, pozitif içerik üretebilme, dijital araçları bilinçli ve güvenli kullanabilme gibi operasyonel, yaratıcı ve mobil becerileri incelenmiştir. Bu çalışmanın örneklemi, Türkiye İstatistiki Bölge Birimleri Sınıflandırması düzey-2’ye göre Türkiye’nin 81 ilden seçilen ve 8-16 yaş grubundaki çocukların ebeveyni olan 10.475 kişiden oluşmaktadır. Veriler, Global Kids Online çerçevesine uygun olacak şekilde kişisel ve demografik bilgi formuna ek olarak araştırmacılarca hazırlanan 23 soruluk veri kümesi kullanılarak çevrimiçi anket yoluyla toplanmıştır. Veriler betimsel istatistik modeli kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Bulgular; ebeveynlerin büyük çoğunluğunun internet erişimi için akıllı telefon kullandığını, interneti zaman alıcı ve mahremiyet konusunda endişeye sebep olan bir platform olarak algıladıklarını ortaya koymuştur. Erkeklerin operasyonel ve bilgiyi tarama becerilerinin kadınlara oranla yüksek olduğu, sosyal gizlilik becerisinin ise değişkenlik gösterdiği tespit edilmiştir. Ebeveynler, kızlar için aktif arabuluculuk faaliyetlerini tercih ettiği ancak ebeveynlerin yaşı ilerledikçe aktif arabuluculuk düzeylerinin azaldığı görülmüştür. Anneler, babalara oranla çocuklarının internet faaliyetlerini daha sık kontrol etmektedir. Ebeveynlere göre erkek çocuklar, kız çocuklardan daha fazla internet riskleriyle karşılaşmaktadırlar. İnternette karşılaştığı durumlarla ilgi kız çocuklar, erkek çocuklardan daha fazla ebeveynlerine başvurmaktadır. Ebeveynlerin büyük bir çoğunluğu, çocuklarının internette karşılaştığı sorunlardan habersizdir.
AtıfTR Dizin3İncele - MakaleAçık Erişim2023Türkiye’deki Çocukların İnternet Kullanım Alışkanlıkları ve Dijital Okuryazarlık Becerileri Üzerine Bir Araştırma
Kurşun, Engin; Turgut, Yiğit Emrah; Yılmaz, Turkan Karakuş; Aslan, Alper; Bayzan, Şahin; Yıldırım, Önder
Bu çalışmanın amacı, 8-16 yaş aralığındaki çocukların internet erişimi ve kullanımı, dijital becerileri, karşılaştıkları internet riskleri ve bu risklere yönelik uyguladıkları başa çıkma ve arabuluculuk stratejilerini ortaya koymaktır. Türkiye İstatistiki Bölge Birimleri Sınıflandırması düzey-2’ye göre 81 ilden çalışmaya katılan 10.475 öğrenci çalışmanın örneklemini oluşturmaktadır. Verilerin toplanması amacıyla Global Kids Online çerçevesi ile uyumlu olacak biçimde 8-16 yaş aralığındaki öğrenciler için kişisel ve demografik bilgi formuna ek olarak araştırmacılar tarafından 21 soruluk veri kümesi hazırlanmış, hazırlanan veri kümesi çevrimiçi ankete dönüştürülerek verilerin toplanması sağlanmıştır. Öğrencilerden elde edilen veriler; erişim ve kullanım durumu, dijital beceriler, karşılaşılan riskler, başa çıkma ve arabuluculuk stratejileri olarak beş başlık altında incelenmiştir. Çalışma sonuçlarına göre; çocukların büyük çoğunluğu internet erişimi için akıllı telefon ve tablet kullanmaktadır. Bununla birlikte çocukların büyük çoğunluğunun internette geçirdiği aşırı zaman akademik başarısını düşürmektedir. Çocukların büyük çoğunluğu, internette pozitif içerik üretme gibi yaratıcı becerilerde istenilen seviyede değillerdir, içerik üretmekten ziyade içerik tüketmektedirler. Çocukların çoğunluğu internette dijital mahremiyetlerini koruma, gizliklerini sağlama noktasında yeterli beceriye sahip değildirler. Ayrıca çocuklar, internette yaşanılan olumsuzluklarda haklarını arama konusunda yeterli beceriye sahip değildirler.
AtıfOpenAlex4TR Dizin1İncele - Derleme MakaleAçık Erişim2022Sharenting: A Conceptual Analysis
Turgut, Yiğit Emrah; Aslan, Alper; Kopuz, Tuba
The use of the Internet and social media has increasingly become widespread. Social media has become an important part of daily life. Thanks to social media, people can receive and offer services in many fields such as education, entertainment, and trade. Social media which is effective in the daily life of many people from different walk of life has also reflected in parents’ routines. The purpose of the current study is to define the concept of sharenting within the framework of the literature and explain the development process of the concept, express the reasons for the parents’ sharenting behaviour, address the problems created by the sharenting behaviour, and examine the sharenting behaviour within the framework of national and international legal regulations. Sharenting refers to sharing content about children by parents in digital media. The concept of sharenting in English emerges from the combination of the terms “sharing” and “parenting”. Along with studies on the concept of sharenting start- ed in 2012, the first academic study was conducted in 2015. The first study on the concept of sharenting in Turkey was carried out in 2016. “Sharenting” is a new, current, and popular concept in both international and national literature. Although the concept can be translated into Turkish as “paylaşan ebeveynlik”, there is no corresponding translation of the concept in Turk- ish as widely accepted. However, having a Turkish equivalent for the concept can be effective in raising and creating awareness of this behaviour in people. Therefore, one of the ways that many parts of the society, especially parents, can internalize the related concept expressively is to create a Turkish expression for the concept. It can be recommended for language experts and academicians working in the field of language education and teaching to find or create a response to the related concept that society can adopt. Besides, the Turkish Language Association (TDK) can also carry out studies on this subject. Today’s parents who have adopted the use of social media use social media for different purposes such as discussing their parenthood, finding solutions to parenting issues and giving advice to other parents, providing social interaction. Shar- enting is effective in fulfilling some of the needs of parents. In fact, parents can fulfil some of their learning needs with sharing. It also provides parents with social interaction and communication opportunities with other parents. Besides, sharenting is also effective in fulfilling some affective needs such as the acceptance of parental identity and appreciation of parenting practices. Thus, sharenting is an activity which offers opportunities to parents. However, when parents share by using their parental identities, they also include their children. Parents think that there is not any situation in which their children are exposed to harmful effects while sharing. However, every share on social media about children exposes them to some digital risks. Even the disclosure of parents’ identity through children may trigger ethical problems. The ignorance of the possible consequences of the sharenting behaviour on children is the reason for the uncon- scious violation of the privacy of children by the parents. The problem with sharenting is that parents configure their children’s digital identities without their children’s consent. Indeed, children’s digital identities should be created by themselves, not by their parents. The reason is that children are individuals who have the capacity to have rights. Therefore, this situation causes a violation of personal rights. The children’s satisfaction with their parent’s share is also unknown. As a result, it is foreseen that parents will have to encounter some legal processes in the future. Hence, the fact that the defendant-complainant re- lationship will be a parent-child relationship should be known. However, when considering the cultural structure of Turkey, it is predicted that the children’s complaints against their parents will be lower than in Western culture. However, regardless of the situation, national and international legislation and legislative regulations are in favor of the children’s interests. Social media platforms can be sensitive to prevent the parent-child conflicts arising from the sharenting behaviour and as a precau- tion they can provide a kind of warning before sharing. In the content shared, the user can be notified before sharing by using the face and word recognition systems. It is possible that shares in a way that does not risk the children’s safety, personality and existence as an individual are reasonable. However, there is no well-accepted criterion describing the ‘reasonable’ level. Although there is no regulation on what information parents can share about their children in many countries, it is considered that it is not possible to find a global solution. However, non-governmental organizations such as the Family Online Safety Institute can develop a common approach to the relevant situation and can ensure that the reasonable sharenting level is determined. The developed ap- proach can also be used as a government policy regarding the sharenting behaviour. Initiatives to determine the reasonable level can be supported by extensive research such as the European Children Online Project (EU Kids Online) including Turkey and other 24 European countries and Global Kids Online supported by UNICEF.
AtıfTR Dizin1İncele - MakaleAçık Erişim2022Scopus SJRQ1Academicians’ awareness, attitude, and use of open access during the COVID-19 pandemic
Turgut, Yigit Emrah; Aslan, Alper; Denizalp, Nuran Varlı
The aim of this research is to reveal academics’ awareness, attitude, and use of open access. In line with the research purpose, the survey research design is adopted. This research consists 151 academics from 12 basic research areas; eight of them being Professor Dr, 17 being Associate Professor Dr, 49 being Doctor Lecturer, and 77 being Research Assistant or Lecturer. A questionnaire consisting of 19 open access and five demographic information questions was used for the data collection tool. The research results show that 75% of the academics have open access awareness and that their awareness is generally created by information that they obtain through the Internet and their friends. In addition, most of the academics indicate that their awareness of open access has increased during the pandemic period. When considering the level of academics’ use of open access, it is found that 75% of the academics use articles in open access journals for their own research and 51% of the academics do not publish any articles in open access journals.
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İncele - MakaleAçık Erişim2021Factors Affecting Parental Mediation Strategies in Children’s Technology Use: A Systematic Review
Kurşun, Engin; Turgut, Yiğit Emrah; Aslan, Alper; Alkan, Rabia Üstündağ
Parents raise their children by using their own social, cultural, and financial resources. With the development of technology, parents started guiding their children in digital environments. In other words, parents attempt to regulate their children’s use of media while maximizing the benefits of media-rich digital environments for their children. This study aimed to examine, evaluate, and interpret the factors affecting parental mediation strategies through meta-synthesis method. A total of 16 studies were reviewed. The results revealed that demographic characteristics including age, gender, educational level, and socio-economic status, use of technology, parents’ attitudes and perceptions towards technology are the critical factors influencing parental mediation strategies.
AtıfOpenAlex22TR Dizin1İncele - MakaleYalnız künye2021Factors Affecting Parents' Share on Social Media about Their Children
Turgut, Yigit Emrah; Kopuz, Tuba; Aslan, Alper; Toksoy, Seyhan Eryilmaz
In this study, it was aimed to determine the factors affecting parents' share on social media about their children. This is a qualitative study which was conducted with the participation of 88 parents. Data were collected through an online questionnaire consisting of open-ended questions. It was revealed that most of parents participating in the study posted about their children on social media. It was determined that parents mostly pay attention to the children's appearance and privacy while sharing posts regarding their children on social media. It has been observed that among the factors affecting sharing, the factor of staying in contact with the social environment of the parents stands out. Besides, some parents' desire to make special days permanent and the fact that their shares make them feel happy were other factors which draw attention. It was concluded that the parents did not have sufficient knowledge about the legal processes that may arise from their social media posts.
AtıfWoS4TR Dizin6İncele - MakaleYalnız künye2021Scopus SJRQ1Problem- based learning in live online classes: Learning achievement, problem-solving skill, communication skill, and interaction
Aslan, Alper
The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of first aid training in live online classes using the problem-based learning approach on students' learning achievement, problem-solving skills, communication skill, and interaction. The pre-test and post-test quasi-experimental design with a control group was used in the quantitative dimension of the study. The study group was conducted with forty-five university students. While live online classes in the experimental group were carried out via the PBL approach, live online classes in the control group were traditionally carried out via teacher-based methods without any intervention. Zoom application was used in both groups during live online classes. Group work in the experimental group was conducted using breakout rooms. The process of data collection and the experimental procedure of the study was completed in six weeks. Within the scope of the study, courses took three 40 min periods every week. The Learning Achievement Test, the Perceived Problem-solving Skills Scale, the Communication Skills Scale, and the Online Course Interaction Level Determination Scale were used for data collection tools. The results of study show that students who attended live online classes using PBL had higher levels of learning achievement, problem-solving skills and live online class interaction than students who attended live online classes using teacher-based methods. No significant difference between the communication skills of the groups was observed.
AtıfScopus143WoS76OpenAlex229İncele - MakaleAçık Erişim2021Scopus SJRQ1Teachers' views related the middle school curriculum for distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic
Aslan, Seda Akti; Turgut, Yigit Emrah; Aslan, Alper
This qualitative study aims to examine teachers’ opinions concerning the middle school curricula that have been in use for years, in order to determine its suitability for distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants consisted of eighteen middle school teachers from different subject areas in Turkey. A maximum variation sampling method was employed for participant selection. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews. Due to the pandemic, the interviews were conducted using video conferencing applications. The data was analyzed through content analysis. According to the findings, the teachers report that while they are effective in achieving cognitive objectives, they have difficulties in achieving affective and psychomotor objectives. In addition, the teachers do not prefer to design their own materials, rather they mainly benefit from ready-to-use materials during emergency distance education. The teachers also reveal that direct instruction and questioning were the teaching methods and techniques they preferred in online courses and that they were unable to adapt other methods and techniques to distance education, which resulted in students experiencing teacher-centered activities. Moreover, the teachers complain about students not attending the online courses on time or even at all, their disinterest, a lack of instant feedback, limited communication with students, and insufficient course lengths. Another critical finding was that the teachers only use homework, end-of-unit quizzes, and participation to online courses as measurement and evaluation tools and agree that they are unable to administer reliable and valid evaluation tools. The limitations of the study and implications for future research are later discussed.
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