Cengiz Hakan Aydin

The Open Education System, Anadolu University, Turkey: e-transformation in a mega-university

Anadolu University in Turkey is one of the world’s largest and least known mega‐universities. Well over one million students in Turkey, the European Union and Northern Cyprus are enrolled in its Open Education System and yet few accounts of this dual‐mode provider appear in the international literature. This article describes the evolution of the Anadolu Open Education System, explains how the Open Education Faculty operates and is now engaged in e‐transformation, and considers the current and future issues confronting the institution.

Research Trends in Turkish Distance Education: A Content Analysis of Dissertations, 1986-2014

Abstract This paper presents a content analytic approach on doctoral dissertations in the field of distance education in Turkish Higher Education context from the years of 1986 through 2014. A total of 61 dissertations were examined to explore keywords, academic discipline, research areas, theoretical/conceptual frameworks, research designs, research models, tests and analyses, data collection tools, participants, variables/research interests, and leading contributor institutions. It is believed that this study can be beneficial to the field of distance education in Turkish context to identify research trends and set a research agenda by exploring dissertations that were published between 1986 and 2014.