Gokce Akcayir

Gokce Akcayir is a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta. She joined the Educational Technology, Knowledge, Language and Learning Analytics (EdTeKLA) research group in 2018. She was a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Science and Technology in Athabasca University. She received both of her masters and Ph.D. degrees in Educational Technology. Her research interests include augmented reality and social networking sites in education, flipped classrooms and computer science education.

Publications

Designing, Deploying, and Evaluating Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education
Designing, Deploying, and Evaluating Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education
Gokce Akcayir, Carrie Demmans Epp. © 2021. 404 pages.
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) provide flexibility in education and have become widely used for the promotion of multimedia learning. This use coincides with...
Two Case Studies of Online Discussion Use in Computer Science Education: Deep vs. Shallow Integration and Recommendations
Two Case Studies of Online Discussion Use in Computer Science Education: Deep vs. Shallow Integration and Recommendations
Gokce Akcayir, Zhaorui Chen, Carrie Demmans Epp, Velian Pandeliev, Cosmin Munteanu. © 2020. 26 pages.
In this chapter, two cases that include computer science (CS) instructors' integration of an online discussion platform (Piazza) into their courses were examined. More...