CONFERENCE REVIEW:V. International Educational Technology Symposium
Titel:
CONFERENCE REVIEW:V. International Educational Technology Symposium
Auteur:
Reviewed by Mubin KIYICI
Verschenen in:
The Turkish online journal of distance education
Paginering:
Jaargang 6 (2005) nr. 4 pagina's 167-170
Jaar:
2005
Inhoud:
167V. International Educational Technology SymposiumWas held in Sakarya UniversityBetween 21 – 23 September 2005Reviewed by Mubin KIYICISakarya Universitymkiyici@anadolu.edu.trV. International Educational Technology Symposium was held in Sakarya University heldbetween 21 – 23 September 2005 by cooperation with Eastern Mediterranean University,Louisiana State University, Governors State University and Ohio University, and TOJET(The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology) journal, at Sakarya UniversityCampus. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aytekin ISMAN who was conference coordinator and Editor inchief of TOJET spoke at the opening ceremony of symposium. His speech was related todiffusion of distance education and diffusion of usage educational technology. And thenProf. Dr. Mehmet DURMAN who is Rector of Sakarya University, talked about aapplications of Distance Education which is applied by Sakarya University and educationaltechnology applications in Tukey. His Speech is here:168Dear GuestsWelcome to the “5th International Educational Technology ConferenceIETC/EGİTEK 2005. It is an international educational activity for academics,teachers and educators. This conference is now a well known educationaltechnology event and the number of paper submissions and attendeesincrease every year.This year, IETC-2005 received 268 applications. The conference academicadvisory board accepted 209 applications.IETC-2005 promotes the development and dissemination of theoreticalknowledge, conceptual research, and professional knowledge throughconference activities, the conference proceeding book, and the TurkishOnline Journal of Educational Technology (TOJET). Its focus is to create anddisseminate knowledge about the use instructional technology for learningand teaching in education.The main theme of IETC-2005 is distance education. Distance education is adelivery system of teaching and learning, when the teacher and the studentare separated by physical distance and time, using alternative mediaresources when students and instructors have difficulties of establishingface-to-face communication. In distance education, instruction deliverybetween tutors and student is done by using different delivery systems suchas computer mediated communication systems, video tapes, printedmaterial, cassettes, and instructional television. With the developments inthe Internet and global network system, the universities immediately tookthe advantage of using World Wide Web to deliver the instruction to almostany node in the world, regardless of the physical distance and time.The main aims which should sought by almost all institutions offeringdistance education are how affective the given program is and whether it isa sufficient replacement to the traditional face-to-face education. Duringthe IETC-2005 will be discussed these aims by presenters, panels andkeynote speakers.The first, second and fourth of “The International Educational TechnologyConference (IETC)'' were held by Sakarya University in Turkey, the third onein the Eastern Mediterranean University in the Turkish Republic of NorthernCyprus, and the fifth one again in Sakarya University in Turkey.Without the authors and receivers, IETC 2005 would, of course, have beenimpossible. We would like to sincerely thank all of you for coming,presenting, and joining in the academic activities. We would also like tothank all of those who contributed to the reviewing process of the “IETC2005'' conference papers, which will be also published in TOJET. And finally,we would like to thank Sakarya University (Turkey), Eastern MediterraneanUniversity (TRNC), Louisiana State University (USA), Ohio University (USA),Governors State University (USA) and The Turkish Online Journal ofEducational Technology (TOJET) for successfully organizing and hosting“IETC 2005'' in Sakarya, Turkey.Finally, I would like to wish you all a pleasant stay in Sakarya-Turkey andsafe return back home. I hope that IETC 2005 will be a meeting you willpleasantly remember.Assis. Prof. Dr. Hüseyin YARATAN who is the head of Educational Science spoke in spite ofRector of Eastern Mediterranean University talked about coming years’ symposium and he169told coming symposium will be held at Eastern Mediterranean University in NorthernCyprus. He declared deadlines of symposium as can be seen below:Abstract Submission 1 December 2005Author Notified 2 January 2006Full Text Submission 1 March 2006Early Registration 21 March 2006(after this date late registration is possible with higher fee)Hotel Reservation 3 April 2006Conference 19 – 21 April 2006Totally 330 authors send their abstract to symposium science committee for evaluating.And 185 of them were accepted and presented at the symposium. 5 Keynote speakerstalked at symposium in Conference HALL 1. And their topics are:? Distance Education in Sakarya University, Orhan Torku, 21/09/2005? Distance Education, Antonis Lionarakis, 21/09/2005? From Facilitation to the Transformation of Learning: From Pedagogy toTechnology, Rozhan Idrus, 21/09/2005-14:00 - HALL? Distance Education, Ülkü Köymen, 22/09/2005 HALL 1? Dance with Ethics for Distance Education Ugur Demiray, 22/09/2005? Distance Education, Antoniette J. Munjewerf, 23/09/2005 HALL 1? A New Perspection in Distance Education, Ruhi Esirgen, 23/09/20059 Panel was conducted and specialists were spoken at that panel. 81 Proceedings whichwere presented at symposium was related to Educational Technology. Panelists are:? Zeki Kaya? Guclu Yavuzcan? Mahmut İzciler? Zeki Kaya? Mehmet Demir? Isık Aybay? Ugur Demiray? Aytekin İşman? Arif Altun? Fahme Dabaj? Gülsevil Turan,? Mehmet Çağlar? Hale Künüçen? Namzi Ulutak? Mehmet Kesim? Dursun Gökdag? Ali Simsek54 of them was related to Web Technologies, 26 of them were related EducationalSciences and 24 of them were related other issues. And 107 proceedings were presentedin Turkish and 78 proceedings were presented in English.In additional, more than five people participated to the symposium from differentcountries. Besides at first nights of symposium welcome party was held and at this partypresenters and audiences were met and they talked about new projects.
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