About Me
I hold a PhD in instructional technology from Utah State University. I am an associate professor at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey. I also currently serve as a member of the Study Group on Science and Education Policy, established by the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). Previously, I was a visiting scholar at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley; an adviser to the Minister of National Education of Turkey as well as to the President of the Board of Higher Education (YÖK); a columnist for the Star daily, a high-circulation Turkish newspaper; and directed educational policy research at SETA Foundation, an Ankara based think-tank. Also, on behalf of Turkish Ministry of National Education, I was a member of the Executive Board of Turkish Fulbright Commission in 2016. My primary research interests include data science, computational social science, educational policy studies, comparative and international education, and higher education.
You can find my publications as well as some national and international media coverage that includes my opinions or cites my works on this website.
You can also visit the following pages for my academic and non-academic work:
Education
Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, Utah State University, 2008.
PhD, Instructional Technology, Utah State University, 2007.
Toward a critical instructional technology: Instrumental rationality, objectification, and psychologism (Chair: Dr. David A. Wiley). (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED510282)
MS, Instructional Systems, Florida State University, 2003.
BS, Teaching Mathematics, Middle East Technical University (METU), 2000.
Contact Me
Bekir S. Gür, PhD
Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University
Insan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakultesi
Esenboga Kulliyesi Dumlupinar Mahallesi
Esenboga/Ankara 06760 TURKEY
E-mail: bsgur (at) ybu.edu.tr