5th Int. Conf. on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training: ITHET‘04

E-Mentoring: a Novel Approach in the Use of Technology in Education

Erol İnelmen

Boğaziçi University

İstanbul-TURKEY May, 31 2004

OutlineOutline

1. INTRODUCTION

2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

3. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

4. CASE STUDY

5. DISCUSSION

6. CONCLUSION 7. ACKNOWLEDGMENT

INTRODUCTION

Information Technology

Based

Higher Education and Training

Information Technology

Mediated

Higher Education and Training

THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

There is, therefore, every reason to place renewed emphasis on the moral and cultural dimensions of education, enabling each person to grasp the individuality of other people and to understand the world’s erratic progression towards a certain unity; but this process must begin with self-understanding through an inner voyage whose milestones are knowledge, meditation and the practice of self-criticism [3].

UNESCO “Learning: The Treasure Within”, UNESCO Publication, Paris, 1996.

“character consists in the readiness to act in accordance to maxims”

Kant, I. Education, The University of Michigan, Michigan, 1960, pp.6.

“the sciences which they learned without any order in their early education will be brought together and they will be able to see the natural relationship of sciences to one another and to true being”

Plato, Republic, VII 537

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

A mentor :IsCommitted Sensitive Listener Tolerant ReliableCompetent Confidant Accessible Non-judgem. PunctualPlansProtection Socialization Evaluation Identification MotivationInitiation Cultivation Separation Redefinition FacilitationActsCounsellor Coach Sponsor Promoter GuideExpert Role-model Trainer Benefactor Champion

Özen, R, “Mentoring, gender and ideological perspectives: a case study” PhD thesis (unpublished) Boğaziçi University, 1998.

Search

Recognize

Classify

Understand

Predict

Decide

Control

MENTAL MODELS EXAMPLES

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class

categories

media*

outcome

solution

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Try routes

Group sets

Set values

Find exit

Give output

Choose way

Fix output

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* text, sound, graph after Winston, P.H., 1984

CASE STUDY

# Aim Stage RemarkN Mast Follow-up Possible acceptance in the USAE Mast Follow-up Need more encouragementL Job In progress Need for a life long perspectiveH Mast Promising Need to be guided for doctorateD Mast In progress Started thesis preparationB Job Waiting New venues foreseenS Und. In progress Need to re-focus the aim

assure security of inhabitants through political sciencesliberty moralequality socialsolidarity economicalauthority legalprotection environment naturalinnovation knowledge practicalprevention deseases medicaldiversification ideas intellectualinspiration learners educational

Commandments for the universal well being :

past present future

what why which

history philosophy mathematics

DISCUSSION

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•Relevant

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resolve

realize

produce

serve

settle

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Hammurabi Socrates Copernicus

CONCLUSION

On education

To:OK

Review literature

Involve stakeholders

Engage learner

Mentor graduate

Design curriculum

Prepare schedule

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Empower partners

Education today needs to be revitalized

Learners should be aware of frontier research

Employers, parents, educators, etc. must be involved

Modular schedule with team teaching adopted

Top down approach enhances motivation

Life long learning must be encouraged

Learner should be like a partner

Active participation in the class via projects

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The former Dean of the engineering faculty the late

Prof. Adnan Halet Taşpınar

of the university we are affiliated has been instrumental in developing a culture for personal support for the learner.