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1. EdMedia 2014: World Conference on Educational Media & Technology (Tampere, Finland, June 23-26, 2014)

Author

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Herrington, Jan, Viteli, Jarmo, and Leikmaa, Marianna

Abstract

The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) is an international, non-profit educational organization. The Association's purpose is to advance the knowledge, theory, and quality of teaching and learning at all levels with information technology. "EdMedia 2014: World Conference on Educational Multimedia & Technology" took place in Tampere, Finland from June 23-26, 2014. The following award papers were presented at the conference: (1) Designing a Web-Portal Supporting the Social Inclusion of a Specific User Group. A Case Study of the LITERACY-Portal (Dominik Hagelkruys and Renate Motschnig); (2) Using a Game-Based Approach to Design a Rich Media Learning Environment (Min Liu, Jason Rosenblum, Lucas Horton, and Jina Kang); (3) Design and Implementation of Strategies and Artifacts to Support Ubiquitous Computing in and outside the Classroom: A Reflective Case Study (Alan Amory); (4) Using Social Networking to Mentor 9th-grade Girls for Academic Success and Engineering Career Awareness (Patricia Carlson); (5) Case Study of an Online English Language Course That Emphasizes Self-Assessment of Speaking and Writing (Goh Kawai and Akio Ohnishi); (6) Pedagogical Design and Pedagogical Usability of Web-based Learning Environments: Comparative Cultural Implications between Africa and Europe (Adewunmi Ogunbase); (7) Evaluating the Nature Tour Mobile Learning Application (Jenni Rikala); (8) Guiding Students in Collaborative Writing of Wikipedia Articles -- How to Get Beyond the Black Box Practice in Information Literacy Instruction? (Eero Sormunen and Tuulikki Alamettälä); (9) Development of a Gaming Instructional Material and Design Framework for "Exploration Activities" in Science (Hodaka Taguchi and Toshiki Matsuda); (10) Serious Game Gademavo: How to Enhance Students' Ability in Taking Decisions in a Complex World (Anne-Dominique Salamin); and (11) Gaming Motivations and Characteristics of Turkish MMOFPS Players (Muhterem Dindar and Yavuz Akbulut).

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2014

2. Engineering the public-use reinforced concrete buildings of Ankara during the Early Republic of Turkey, 1923-1938.

Author

Tunc G and Tunc TE

Subjects
Europe, Social Change, Turkey, Engineering, Museums
Abstract

Today, reinforced concrete (RC) is the most commonly used construction material in Turkey. It first emerged in Europe in the 1850s and was adopted in a number of Late Ottoman period structures, mostly in İstanbul, during the first two decades of the twentieth century. During the Early Turkish Republic (1923-1938), RC appeared in public-use buildings in Ankara, such as the Ethnographic Museum, which was the first in the new capital to feature RC elements, leading the way for many more structures to come. Despite the fact that Turkish and foreign civil engineers faced a series of economic, social, cultural, political, educational and technical challenges during the transition from masonry and timber construction to RC, its adoption was facilitated by the fact that as a European building technology, it became symbolically important to the new republic. Equated with modernity, RC would allow its capital, Ankara, to construct an identity that would contrast with İstanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. This transition would also be catalyzed by the rise of a professional class of Turkish civil engineers who deployed RC to reinforce their authority as trained specialists and agents of modernization., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Published
2022
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