Greetings I am Furkan Cortuk from the Center of Research and Best Practices in
learning and teaching at MEF University I am here on behalf of MEF to say thank
you to Blackboard for honoring us with a 2020 Blackboard Catalyst Award for
Teaching and Learning. This award recognizes institutions who have adapted
flexible distance and online delivery including using mobile technologies to
positively impact the educational experience of students. As a student at
MEF who has recently experienced a rapid transition to online learning
with the Covid19 outbreak, I can certainly see why MEF was honored with
this award. We were dedicated to making the shift to
fully online learning efficient and enjoyable Blackboard Learn and
collaborate make this all possible as we were able to access our classes from
wherever we were staying during the campus closure. I am proud to be part of
MEF and grateful to the university administration, instructors,
administrative staff, library and my fellow students who have all played the
role in developing the unique flipped adaptive digital an active learning
model that is helping us to be successful learners.
Hello everyone I'm Seza Oktem, I'm a senior at MEF University studying English
language teaching in this video I'll tell you a little bit about my
experience with blackboard so for the past four years I've done everything on
Blackboard exams quizzes assignment submissions I've done my readings there
I've done my research there and through all the materials and resources our
instructors were able to provide us with on the system I can say that I have been
educated with Blackboard but also by Blackboard because a lot of things
wouldn't have been possible without it apart from being user friendly flexible
and customizable it has provided a space for a wonderful
thing to come to life during these trying times as the University with a
school club we were able to transfer our tutoring project onto blackboard because
of this 60 volunteers from 6 different universities and 3 different cities in
Turkey were able to continue tutoring 124 students the numbers now tell us
that more 730 hours of tutoring has taken place on
Blackboard since March so not only is Blackboard a great learning management
system it is also a platform where people can come together to make a
change thank you.
Hello my name is Ahmet Yigit Kade I am a senior law student at MEF University recently with the corner virus pandemic situation our University
switch to online education so we started to use a platform called Blackboard for
online education blackboard has lots of websites such as being user-friendly and
flexible but in my opinion the most important feature of Blackboard is that
it made communications between lecturers and students a lot easier because
students started to follow classes easier than before and also lecturers
started to track our improvements a lot easier.
I am Buse Yucel, I'm a fourth year industrial engineering student at MEF University. The idea of studying from
home while the stressful idea form in the pandemic situation because I usually
prefer a library to study but thanks to Blackboard virtual classroom they
support us as all University students in the online lectures. Up to five hundred
students can access at the same time. Ff we consider today's meeting platforms
online meeting platforms it's a really important factor thanks to all
contribution with the Blackboard and MEF University to support us in this process.
Hi my name is Zeki, by June 2020 I graduated from a university architecture
department the reason why I told MEF University was mainly academics that we
have and the way they educate us which is flipped learning throughout my
education flipped learning played a huge role it helped me a lot to get to know
classes and see my strengths and weaknesses before hands. Blackboard is
the heart of this learning system and which gives us
ability to follow the courses even in our rooms under these cracking days. A
special program like architecture it is important to share what you do and your
thoughts with your professor and get feedbacks over them thanks to our
education system perfectly blended with the latest technological improvements
such as Blackboard flipped learning etc it is almost the same being at home or
in universities and sometimes it is even better to be online rather than being in
universe because the Blackboard and the programs that we do are not just the
place where we watch videos it is the platform where we can do discussions do
presentations share our thoughts get feedbacks and safely store what we have
produced so far. All of this is possible just because MEF University is bending
he's been doing this way of education since the very first day it is founded
and I'm so proud to be part of his family.