Improving undergraduate students’ learning through Online Educational Guidance Meetings (OEGMs)

  • Begüm Ceylan Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Turkey
  • Bünyamin Bavlı Yıldız Technical University, Turkey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/tjhe.2364
Keywords: higher education, educational guidance, online education, university student

Abstract

This study aimed at obtaining reflections on Online Educational Guidance Meetings (OEGMs), executed in the English preparatory program during COVID-19 Pandemic in a university in Istanbul. The OEGMs were voluntary meetings between a student and the instructor. Students were able to ask for suggestions to study more effectively via an online meeting platform. The qualitative collaborative action research design was operated in the study. One-on-one interviews with 8 instructors and focus group interviews with 12 students were conducted to obtain the data. Content analysis method was employed to analyze obtained data. The findings revealed that this new method, which brought the students together with their instructors in personal one-to-one meetings, provided numerous advantages psychologically and academically in the learning process.

Received: 28 February 2022
Accepted: 24 July 2023

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Author Biographies

Begüm Ceylan, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Turkey

Graduated from Middle East Technical University, English Language Teaching program in 2012. She completed her master’s degree in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language at İstanbul University in 2018. Right after this, she started her Ph.D. degree in Curriculum and Instruction department at Yıldız Technical University in 2019. Currently, she is a candidate of Ph.D. and is working as an English lecturer at İstanbul University Cerrahpaşa, School of Foreign Languages. She has been working as an instructor at higher education for 10 years and interested in curriculum development, curriculum evaluation, foreign language teaching and culture teaching.

Bünyamin Bavlı, Yıldız Technical University, Turkey

Graduated from Anadolu University, English Language Teaching program. Then, he completed his master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction department at Fırat University in 2011. Right after that, he started his Ph.D degree in Curriculum and Instruction program at Yildiz Technical University in 2012. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 2017. He started working firstly as a research assistant and then as an assistant professor at the same program at Yildiz Technical University. He is currently working at the same university in the educational sciences department as an associate professor. He is interested in educational sciences, curriculum development and evaluation.

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Published
2023-11-30
How to Cite
Ceylan, Begüm, and Bünyamin Bavlı. 2023. “Improving Undergraduate students’ Learning through Online Educational Guidance Meetings (OEGMs)”. Tuning Journal for Higher Education 11 (1), 125-50. https://doi.org/10.18543/tjhe.2364.
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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023): Educational Journeys in times of uncertainty: Weathering the storms
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