Browsing by Author "Adiguzel, Tufan"

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Exploring the Acceptance of ChatGPT in Higher Education: A Comprehensive Quantitative Study of University Students and Faculty
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2025) Kaya, Mehmet Haldun; Adiguzel, Tufan
The study explores the acceptance and use of ChatGPT in higher education, focusing on university students and faculty members. The research aims to identify the factors that influence the behavioral intention to use ChatGPT, utilizing the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) as the theoretical framework. Key constructs such as performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, hedonic motivation, price value, and habit were examined for their impact on the acceptance of ChatGPT. Data were collected through a survey of 378 participants, including 346 students and 32 faculty members, from various faculties at a university in Eastern Europe. The findings reveal that effort expectancy and performance expectancy were the most significant predictors of behavioral intention to use ChatGPT. Faculty members demonstrated a higher intention to use ChatGPT compared to students, likely due to their greater experience with technology. Hedonic motivation also played an important role in both groups, indicating that enjoyment contributed to the acceptance of the tool. The study concludes that ChatGPT holds great potential for enhancing education, but its habitual use is not yet widespread. The results suggest that universities should focus on improving institutional support and training to facilitate broader acceptance of ChatGPT among students and faculty.
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Exploring Views and Experiences of Faculty Members' Participation in an Asynchronous Online Program: Using a Micro-Learning Format and CoP Framework
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Bulut, Mehmet Akin; Adiguzel, Tufan; Kaya, Mehmet Haldun
Traditional teaching methods in higher education often fall short of meeting the diverse needs of learners, particularly in remote or asynchronous settings. Addressing this gap, this qualitative case study investigates how a six-module asynchronous online professional learning program can support the integration of active learning strategies using micro-learning and a Community of Practice (CoP) framework. Conducted at a higher education institution, the study involved six faculty members from diverse academic backgrounds. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews, lesson observations, discussion board content, and participant reflections. Content analysis revealed that the flexibility and accessibility of asynchronous learning coupled with micro-learning segments. This study addresses a critical need for practical insights into professional learning programs that effectively implement active learning in non-traditional educational environments. The findings suggest that such programs should incorporate structured support mechanisms, clear guidelines, and diverse content formats to enhance motivation and mitigate cognitive overload, particularly in remote learning contexts.
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Teachers and Ai: Understanding the Factors Influencing Ai Integration in K-12 Education
(Springer, 2025) Filiz, Ozan; Kaya, Mehmet Haldun; Adiguzel, Tufan
This study investigates the psychological and pedagogical factors influencing K-12 teachers' readiness to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into educational settings. An exploratory qualitative approach was employed, involving 66 teachers from 11 disciplines at a private school in T & uuml;rkiye participating in a professional development program focused on AI-enhanced teaching. Data were collected through online discussion forums and AI-supported learning activity design tasks and analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Findings reveal that teachers valued AI for its efficiency, interactivity, and adaptability, particularly in tools like ChatGPT and MagicSchool, which supported personalized learning and lesson planning. However, significant challenges emerged, including technical issues, curriculum misalignment, ethical concerns, and cultural barriers, such as difficulties adapting AI-generated content to local contexts. The study concludes that while AI offers significant potential to enhance education, successful integration requires addressing the identified barriers through targeted support, resources, and ethical guidelines. Implications for further research include exploring diverse educational settings to generalize findings, conducting longitudinal studies to assess long-term impacts, and investigating strategies to align AI tools with existing curricula and ethical standards.
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Teaching Self-Regulation Through Role Modeling in K-12
(Frontiers Media Sa, 2023) Adiguzel, Tufan; Asik, Gursu; Bulut, Mehmet Akin; Kaya, Haldun; Ozel, Serkan
For K-12 teachers to develop effective teaching skills, integration of role modeling strategies into teaching and learning process as a dimension of selfregulated learning is of the foremost value. Role modeling strategy training through a hybrid professional development model bears the potential to serve as a facilitating component in promoting K-12 teachers' instructional competence. Conducted within the self-regulated learning framework, this study suggested findings of a teacher professional development training aimed at role modeling strategy implementation at K-12 level. Pursuing a mixed-method model, the current research was performed with 16 teachers who were trained and supervised to integrate role-modeling strategies into their teaching context. In this study, the data sources were role-modeling- integrated lesson plans, trainers' feedback on these lesson plans, and online student products. The data collection methods included lesson plan evaluation through a role-modeling rubric in a quantitative fashion, whereas content analysis of trainer feedback on lesson plans, latterly revised lesson plans and online student products composed the qualitative aspect. Results revealed that this professional development training achieved significantly positive changes in teachers' role modeling strategy implementation skills, particularly in terms of teachers' role as agents in students' self-regulated learning skills, promotion of student-centered learning and overall improvement in students' self-regulated learning skills. Further, the integration of education technology tools into lessons was observed to have a positive impact on enhancing students' self-regulated learning skills. This study could offer major contributions to designing teacher professional development training for researchers, practitioners, and teacher trainers, particularly in role modeling dimension of self-regulated learning.
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Technology Integration Through Evidence-Based Multimodal Reflective Professional Training
(Bastas Publ Ltd - Uk, 2021) Kaya, Mehmet Haldun; Adiguzel, Tufan
For technology integration to achieve intended instructional objectives, professional development is of paramount importance for in-service instructors. Technology enhanced reflection providing multimodality and evidence-based data has the potential of helping instructors achieve technology integration in their teaching. Thus, this study addressed the lack of professional development programs for in-service English language instructors aiming at technology integration through evidence-based multimodal reflective practices. By following the developmental research methodology, an instrumental case study was conducted using mixed-methods design including both qualitative and quantitative data. The professional training was carried out with eight English language instructors at tertiary level who aimed to integrate technology into their English classes by being involved in evidence-based multimodal reflective practice. In this study, there were five different data sources (instructors' opinions, recorded lessons, video annotations, face-to-face interaction notes and pages in the learning management system) and seven data collection tools (interviews, tutor reflection template, self-reflection template, peer -reflection template, technology integration questionnaire, online discussion forums and evaluation criteria form). As a result, this professional training particularly designed and implemented for the in-service English language instructors at tertiary level did make a change in their both technology integration and evidence-based multimodal reflective practice. Apart from the change in the instructors' technology integration, this study had an impact on their understanding, practice and quality of reflective practice involving evidence-based multimodal reflection tools as it helped the instructors to increase depth in their evidence-based multimodal reflective practice.