Browsing by Author "Sakarya, A. Orcun"

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Collaboration in Bologna Process: the Experience of Department of Interior Architecture in Cankaya University
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2011) Sakarya, A. Orcun; Kahraman, Z. Ezgi Haliloglu; 19342
Bologna Process studies in Cankaya University's Interior Design and Architecture Department have been initiated in 2008. This study analyzes the curriculum development efforts in a participatory point of view and the findings of the first stage by providing insights for the next step of the process. As a result of the consensus among professors and questionnaire, program qualifications have been identified and listed. Assessment of questionnaires conducted to students and graduates revised these qualifications. These new qualifications specifically involve the subject-specific ones related with the fundamentals of design processes, history and technical topics of interior architecture; design and construction issues. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the 2nd World Conference on Psychology, Counselling and Guidance.
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Student Participation in Bologna Process: a Case Study From Turkey
(Fac Teacher Education, 2014) Kahraman, Zerrin Ezgi; Kahraman, Z. Ezgi; Sakarya, Arif Orçun; Sakarya, A. Orcun; 50343; 19342; Şehir ve Bölge Planlama; İşletme
Bologna Process studies in Cankaya University's Interior Architecture Department (INAR), Turkey have been initiated in 2008. The goal of this study is to explore students' perceptions about the new programme outcomes framed with the Turkish Higher Education Qualifications Framework and to provide a set of guidelines for the Bologna Process to be implemented. A questionnaire including semi-structured questions is conducted in the data collection process. Content analysis method is used in order to examine students' perceptual outcomes. The findings of the study display that students' perceptions underline the importance of the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competences in social, economic and managerial dimensions of the professional life. Results also reveal the need of students for the acquisition and use of communicative, collaborative and interdisciplinary aspects of the profession and their expectations on both theoretical and practical contents of INAR courses. Furthermore, this study which mainly followed a student-cantered approach concluded that it is also possible to generalize new programme outcomes through the active participation of students.
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Variables Affecting Innovation-Related Competitiveness in Turkey
(Springer, 2009) Sakarya, A. Orcun; 19342
Innovation's relation with competitiveness can be considered as a part of its emerging importance for the global economy. Accordingly, the main goal of this quantitative study is to foresee the main "macro" variables affecting Turkey's innovation-related competitive performance in the long run by considering innovation concept, both in the global and European Union basis. Following the introductory part and literature review, the relationship between innovation and competitiveness has been emphasized in Section 5.3. In Section 5.4, European Union Innovation Scoreboard has been mentioned. In Section 5.5 and the final section of the chapter, innovation concept has been discussed as an extension to Summary of Innovation Index and factors affecting innovation-related competitiveness in Turkey have been examined. First, a brief exploratory factor analysis has been conducted to identify the relevance of selected variables. Then, for investigating factors affecting medium and long-run innovation-related competitiveness in the country, a VAR model has been utilized. Granger's causality test has also been used to detect the cause-effect relationships between variables. As a result, it has been deduced that basic variables affecting innovation-related competitiveness are the number of patent applications and per capita R&D expenses. Moreover, it is also concluded that the Gross Domestic Product may also be relatively important in the long run.