Özyeğin University, Çekmeköy Campus Nişantepe District, Orman Street, 34794 Çekmeköy - İSTANBUL

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E-mail: info@ozyegin.edu.tr

Tufan
Adıgüzel

Professor, Education Psychology and Technology


Doctorate

Educational Psychology (Specialized in Educational Technology) - Texas A&M University, 2008

Master's

Science and Math Education, Boğaziçi University, 2001

Bachelor's

Math Education, Marmara University, 1999

High School

Computer Department, Haydarpaşa Vocational High School, 1994



Teaching

Introduction to University Life, Sectoral Practicum 


Biography

Dr. Adıgüzel completed his undergraduate education in Mathematics Education at Marmara University in 1999 and his master's degree in the same field in 2001 at Boğaziçi University. Dr. Adıgüzel completed his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Technology from Texas A&M University in 2008 and returned to Turkey in 2009 and promoted to the ranks of Associate Professor and Professor in 2012 and 2018, respectively.

Dr. Adıgüzel started his career as a Multimedia Software and Program Developer in a private company in 1996 and started his academic life by working first as a Research Assistant and then as a Lecturer at Yeditepe University between 1999-2002. Between 2002-2009, he worked as a Webmaster, Database Administrator, and researcher in a project on Special Education Technology at Texas A&M University. Dr. Adıgüzel later worked as a faculty member at Bahçeşehir University’s Computer and Instructional Technologies Department until 2020. During this time, he served as the founding coordinator of many centers and graduate programs, and as the associate dean. He joined Özyeğin University, Istanbul in 2020 as the faculty member of the Sectoral Education department and founding director of the Office for Learning and Teaching Enhancement. Dr. Adıgüzel also owns a start-up company (STEMXR), where AR and VR enriched content is developed and consultancy is provided on STEM education, which it launched in 2020.

Having advised more than 35 master’s and doctoral students so far, Dr. Adıgüzel has many national and international projects, articles, papers, and book studies on technology design, development, and acceptance in the fields of Computer Science, Science, Mathematics and Special Education. Dr. Adıgüzel has been one of the three Editors-in-Chief of the Contemporary Educational Technology journal since 2019.