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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many changes to the way teachers teach and students learn. Although there is a surplus of research on online education, the transition period to online education is also worth investigating. This study set out to explore language learners’ perceptions of how they were impacted by emergency remote teaching (ERT). All the participants were students attending an English medium university in Turkey. The mode of teaching, changes in teacher-student and student-student interaction, online tools and materials used in the courses were investigated by a comprehensive self-developed online survey and the data were triangulated later by semi-structured interviews conducted with the volunteering participants. Most found the transition to ERT demanding, particularly the loss of face-to-face interaction; however, some students benefited from being able to better regulate their own learning process thanks to the recorded lectures and online materials. Students also appreciated receiving regular feedback from instructors about their progress.

Bu çalışma Mart 2020’de Türkiye’de ilk COVID 19 vakasının görülmesiyle başlayan yeni eğitim şartlarına ODTÜ Yabancı Diller Yüksekokulu öğretim görevlilerinin uyum sürecini incelemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Bu dönemde Türkiye’de yüksek öğretim kurumlarındaki öğrenciler evlerine gönderilmiş ve hızlı bir şekilde uzaktan eğitime geçilmiştir. Araştırma için veri toplama amaçlı 110 katılımcı uzaktan eğitim süreci hakkında araştırmacıların hazırladıkları çevrim içi bir anket cevaplamış ve gönüllü olan 24 katılımcıyla mülakatlar yapılmıştır. Katılımcıların büyük bir çoğunluğunda sürecin başında zorluk yaşadıkları tecrübesi ortaktır, fakat sürecin zaman içinde katılımcı öğretim görevlilerinde, uzaktan eğitimde gerekli beceriler konusunda yeterlilik hissi yarattığı gözlemlenmiştir. Ayrıca yine katılımcıların çoğu, kişisel gelişimleri açısından, uzaktan eğitim sürecinde kazandıkları beceri ve bakış açılarının, mesleki gelişimlerine katkısının büyük olduğunu iletmiş ve çevrim içi eğitimin ileriki dönemlerde de hayatlarında olacağını belirtmişlerdir. Katılımcı öğretim görevlileri, meslektaş iletişiminden hem dijital becerilerini geliştirme hem de psikolojik destek anlamında çok faydalandıklarını belirtmişlerdir., This paper reports on the emergency remote education period of the instructors at the School of Foreign Languages of a Turkish state university. The university the study was conducted in, along with all other higher education institutions in Turkey, switched to online education with the sudden spread of the COVID 19 pandemic. To evaluate how the instructors dealt with this sudden transition, 110 participants teaching at the School of Foreign Languages completed an online survey at the end of the emergency remote education academic semester. Thereafter 24 of them volunteered to be interviewed about their experiences in more detail. The findings reveal that most instructors had some apprehension and difficulty in making the transition to online teaching, yet still considered themselves competent in dealing with the unexpected and unprepared teaching medium. Many thought the experience had been valuable to their personal development and referred to aspects of online education that will be integral to their professional development. It was observed that the instructors also repeatedly expressed that they perceived the experience as one that interaction among colleagues benefitted them most both in developing their digital skills and in providing them with psychological support.

Gorlin-Goltz syndrome or basal cell nevus syndrome is an autosomal dominant syndrome characterized by skeletal anomalies, numerous cysts observed in the jaw, and multiple basal cell carcinoma of the skin, which may be accompanied by falx cerebri calcification. Basal cell carcinoma is the most commonly skin tumor with slow clinical course and low metastatic potential. Its concomitance with Gorlin syndrome, resulting from a mutation in a tumor suppressor gene, may substantially change morbidity and mortality. A 66-year-old male patient with a history of recurrent basal cell carcinoma was presented with exophthalmus in the left eye and the lesions localized in the left lateral orbita and left zygomatic area. His physical examination revealed hearing loss, gapped teeth, highly arched palate, and frontal prominence. Left orbital mass, cystic masses at frontal and ethmoidal sinuses, and multiple pulmonary nodules were detected at CT scans. Basal cell carcinoma was diagnosed from biopsy of ethmoid sinus. Based on the clinical and typical radiological characteristics (falx cerebri calcification, bifid costa, and odontogenic cysts), the patient was diagnosed with metastatic skin basal cell carcinoma accompanied by Gorlin syndrome. Our case is a basal cell carcinoma with aggressive course accompanying a rarely seen syndrome.