GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS AND ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION/4110123
Course Title: CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS AND ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
In the light of socio-economic and cultural changes identifies the process of highly developed countries’ higher education systems.
Students will be able to compare the higher education system of other countries of these countries.
Students will be able to suggest a new model for the problems of higher education in the light of new developments.

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face.
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Historical development of university concept.
2. Week  Transition from madrasah to Darülfünun and university.
3. Week  Legal base of university reforms in Turkey.
4. Week  University systems in the world and new global trends.
5. Week  Changing paradigm in state university relationships.
6. Week  Quality processes in world scale, accreditation and diploma equivalence
7. Week  Midterm
8. Week  Factors that require the restructuring of higher education in Turkey
9. Week  Centralist administrative structure in state universities
10. Week  Academic autonomy and freedom
11. Week  Cost of higher education
12. Week  Problems of university members
13. Week  Discussions in Turkey about YOK
14. Week  Model suggestions in Turkey about YOK
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
30
 Assignment
1
40
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
40
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
10
3
30
 Searching in Internet and Library
7
3
21
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
7
3
21
 Preparing a Presentation
5
3
15
 Presentation
1
3
3
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
7
4
28
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
7
4
28
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
188
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.52
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8X
9X
10X
11X
12X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof. M. Çağatay ÖZDEMİR)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (http://w3.gazi.edu.tr/~cagatay/)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (cagatay@gazi.edu.tr)