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The session recordings of the 6th International Education Forum: Learning Engineering, hosted by TED University on May 24, 2025, are now available on YouTube!
For those who missed this inspiring forum or would like to revisit it featuring expert speakers in educational technologies, learning design, data-driven learning, and artificial intelligence, the full sessions are now live on the Turkish Education Association’s YouTube channel.
Watch the recording here: https://tinyurl.com/tedforum

We were delighted to host the 6th International Education Forum: Learning Engineering at TED University on May 24, 2025, and to actively take part in this significant event as the Faculty of Education.

The forum featured inspiring talks on educational technologies, learning design, data-driven learning, and artificial intelligence. We were proud to contribute to this interdisciplinary field that is shaping the future of learning.

We extend our sincere thanks to all speakers, participants, and the organizing team for their valuable contributions.

The paper titled “The Authenticity Dilemma: How Can Teacher Education Policies Address Globalized Digital Challenges?” by Res.Asst.Aybüke Durmuş from the Department of Educational Sciences, has been accepted for presentation at the ATEE 2025 Annual Conference, which will be held from 26 to 29 August 2025 at the Marino Institute of Education in Dublin, Ireland.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman's article titled “A Longitudinal Case Study of L2 Interactional Competence Development in the ELT Classroom: Teachability and Learnability of L2 Interactional Practices” has been published in the journal International Journal of Applied Linguistics, which is indexed in the SSCI-Q1 category.
You can access the article via the following link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijal.12765

The Faculty of Education at TED University successfully hosted the seminar titled “The Nature of Engineering and the Role of Engineering in STEAM Education” on April 17, 2025.

In this inspiring session, Prof. Dr. Faik Özgür Karataş – Chair of the Department of STEAM Education at Trabzon University – shared his multifaceted insights into the nature of engineering and its crucial place in STEAM education.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to Prof. Dr. Karataş for his thought-provoking presentation and to all our faculty members who attended the seminar!

Our faculty member from the Department of English Language Education, Mehmet Sak, has published his article titled "Language teacher educator wellbeing in online classes: An analytic autoethnography" in the European Journal of Education, which is indexed in the SSCI-Q1 category. In response to calls for systematic exploration of language teacher educators' professional lives, the article uses analytic autoethnography as a lens to shed light on early-career language teacher educators' wellbeing experiences.

The research titled “Shaping Future Educators: The Role of Critical Intercultural Communication in Teacher Education Programs” by Res. Asst. Aybüke Durmuş and Assoc. Prof.  Dr. Özlem Erden-Başaran from the Department of Educational Sciences has been accepted for presentation at ECER 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia!
The study explores the perceptions of pre-service teachers and teacher educators regarding critical intercultural communication, and identifies strategies for effectively integrating this approach into teacher education programs.

Our graduate student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and concurrently our research assistant with a working scholarship, Ceren Deniz Coşkun’s study titled “Culturally Responsive Classroom Management: A Systematic Analysis” has been accepted for presentation at the 99th European Conference on Educational Research (Emerging Researcher), which will be held in Belgrade.

At TED University’s WANTED Career Days, which bring together students who are about to step into professional life with professionals from Turkey’s leading companies and institutions, we were together with our graduates from the Faculty of Education and students who are doing internships in various companies and schools.

Dean of the Faculty of Education, Prof. Dr. Kürşat Çağıltay, exchanged ideas with our graduates, students, and event organizers about graduate employment, internship opportunities, and potential collaborations.

As TED University’s Faculty of Education, we successfully hosted the “Training the Learning Leaders of the Future: Corporate Academy Mastery” seminar on March 27, 2025 with great interest!

Our distinguished speaker, Arzu Hancı Karademirci, LÖSEV Training and Academy Coordinator and Former Director of TCMB Central Academy, shared valuable insights on the emergence of corporate academies, the opportunities they offer for universities, and the integration of academic knowledge into the business world.