scholarly journals A Qualitative Study of Erasmus Program Challenges and Paradoxes Based on the Experiences of Students from Turkey

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
Esin Aksay Aksezer ◽  
Kutlay Yağmur ◽  
Fons van de Vijver
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
Turkish Higher Education ◽  
Expectation Management ◽  
General Program ◽  
Program Challenges ◽  
The Bologna Process

Internationalization agenda, especially the Erasmus framework, has become a significant process affecting the Turkish higher education. Erasmus, as being the most influential and preferred mobility scheme, has attracted significant attention and witnessed increasing number of students in years. There are various studies on the outcomes of the Erasmus program in terms of social, cultural, and academic gains of students as well as associated challenges and influence of the Bologna Process on the Turkish higher education outlook. However, there are less visited concepts in terms of challenges that need further attention. This paper addresses these less visited subjects such as project management/implementation issues (diversity, funding, and outcomes), politics of difference, and consumerist approaches. The findings suggest that these issues may complicate program implementations and run the risk of hindering general program targets, leading to a paradoxical outlook such a becoming exclusive to certain group of students, emphasizing difference rather than mutual understanding, seeing the experience as a to-do list item. So, the tension between various issues such as consumerist approaches, politics of difference and project implementation issues and general program targets and outcomes must be acknowledged towards emphasizing the critical role of appropriate student advising and expectation management as well as development of flexible and diverse evaluation-placement methods for efficient and positive program implementation.

A comparison with computer and instructional technology education program competencies

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Durmus Ziya Gorur ◽  
Mustafa Cem Babadogan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information System ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
National Qualifications Framework ◽  
Turkish Higher Education ◽  
Specific Order ◽  
Education In Turkey ◽  
The Bologna Process

The countries involved in the Bologna Process constitute the National Qualifications Framework for higher education in their own countries. National Qualifications Framework is a system in which the nationally and internationally recognised and associated competencies are structured in a specific order. In Turkey, ‘National Qualifications Framework for Higher Education in Turkey’ is constituted for increased transparency, recognition and mobility in higher education. The aim of this study is to research, regulate and improve the computer and instruction technologies education program competencies constituted within the National Qualifications Framework for Higher Education in Turkey in seven universities. The seven universities selected for the purpose of this study are selected to represent each region of Turkey. Regarding the competencies of the selected universities, it is seen that there is a general confusion about the writing of competencies and the writing of goals. Another mistake regarding the competencies is the false classification of competencies. In addition, there is no common attitude related to the writing of competencies. Therefore, in this study, a draft backbone regarding the writing of competencies in computer and instruction technologies education is tried to be created.Keywords: Bologna Process, Bologna information system, Turkish higher education competencies framework, computer and instruction technologies program competencies.

scholarly journals Adaptation to the Bologna Process: The Case of Turkey

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verda Gizem Furuzan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Union Member ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
Turkish Higher Education ◽  
Major Reform ◽  
State Higher Education ◽  
The Bologna Process

The Bologna Declaration of 19 June 1999 was signed by 29 ministers responsible from higher education in their countries. The explicit purposes of the Bologna Process were to increase the comparability and readability of degrees across all member state higher education systems. The aim of the Bologna Process is to have a common bachelor’s–master’s–doctorate system in all of European Union member countries. The Bologna Process is the process of creating the European Higher Education Area and is based on cooperation between ministries, higher education institutions, students and staff from 47 countries, with the participation of international organizations. It has been a major reform initiative in the last two decades. This article describes with the dynamics of Bologna Process and the European Union’s growth and jobs strategy. It concentrates on the origins and applicability of the Bologna Process. Further, it reviews the applications and implementation of the Bologna Process in the Turkish higher education system. Besides, its effects to Turkish higher education sector are discussed.

Academic Course Evaluation

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 297-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith Braun ◽  
Bernhard Leidner
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Course Evaluation ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Teaching Behavior ◽  
Personal Benefit ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Bologna Process

This article contributes to the conceptual and empirical distinction between (the assessment of) appraisals of teaching behavior and (the assessment of) self-reported competence acquirement within academic course evaluation. The Bologna Process, the current higher-education reform in Europe, emphasizes education aimed toward vocationally oriented competences and demands the certification of acquired competences. Currently available evaluation questionnaires measure the students’ satisfaction with a lecturer’s behavior, whereas the “Evaluation in Higher Education: Self-Assessed Competences” (HEsaCom) measures the students’ personal benefit in terms of competences. In a sample of 1403 German students, we administered a scale of satisfaction with teaching behavior and the German version of the HEsaCom at the same time. Using confirmatory factor analysis, the estimated correlations between the various scales of self-rated competences and teaching behavior appraisals were moderate to strong, yet the constructs were shown to be empirically distinct. We conclude that the self-rated gains in competences are distinct from satisfaction with course and instructor. In line with the higher education reform, self-reported gains in competences are an important aspect of academic course evaluation, which should be taken into account in the future and might be able to restructure the view of “quality of higher education.” The English version of the HEsaCom is presented in the Appendix .

Promoting Autonomous Learning through Self-, Peer-, and Co-assessment to Ensure High Quality in Georgian Higher Education (a case study of International Black Sea University, Georgia)

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irma MESIRIDZE ◽  
Nino TVALTCHRELIDZE
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Bologna Process

The Bologna Process, Information and Communication Technology, and market forces have brought manyinnovations and great changes to higher education systems throughout Europe. Reforms in higher educationhave taken a new direction, towards making higher education students more autonomous. However, manycountries have not really adopted this innovative way of teaching and still maintain an old ‘transmission’ stylewhich often entails teachers trying to pour knowledge into the minds of their students. Promoting autonomouslearning (the ability of students to manage their own learning) in higher education is crucial both for theindividual and society, as the idea of an academic student comprises critical reflective thinking and theimportance of becoming an independent learner. This article will discuss the importance of promotingautonomous learning throughout self, peer and co-assessment for higher education quality enhancement. Thepaper will examine the case of International Black Sea University’s MA students enrolled in the Higher EducationManagement program. The analyses of a survey will be used to discuss the significance of autonomous learningfor students and their readiness for self, peer and co-assessment.

scholarly journals The Bologna Process. Academic Mobility in Romanian Technical Higher Education

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 2229-2233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliana-Luminiţa Todorescu ◽  
Anca Greculescu ◽  
Gabriel Mugurel Dragomir
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Academic Mobility ◽  
The Bologna Process

ORGANIZATION OF INTERUNIVERSITY COOPERATION AS ONE OF THE STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF UNIVERSITY

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-60
Author(s):  
SVETLANA KOBACHEVSKAYA
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
State Pedagogical ◽  
Current Article ◽  
International Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
The Bologna Process

In the current article, the viewpoints of the Belarusian and foreign scientists and experts on the organization of international cooperation in Higher Education Institutions within the Bologna process are analyzed, the directions of organization of interuniversity cooperation of the university are considered, the experience of Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank in this direction and the objectives of interuniversity development are defined.

scholarly journals The Lithuanian Case of Higher Education Reforms in Europe

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liudvika Leisyte
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
The State ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Education Reforms ◽  
Higher Education Reforms ◽  
The Bologna Process

The Bologna process has spurred higher education reforms in various European countries. Higher education reforms in Lithuania took place rather incrementally and represented an interaction between two strong powers—the state and the academic oligarchy. In the 1990s, the structural changes at the forefront of the Bologna-related reforms in Lithuania, but higher education reforms have remained stagnant in Lithuania. It is too early to draw conclusions about the success of the reforms, but the involvement of various stakeholders and the vision of broad reforms increase hopes for prospects of a more radical change of the Lithuanian higher education landscape.

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