TEDU, Hosted MOCA 2018!

TEDU, HOSTED MOCA 2018!

The “Meeting of Change Agents (MOCA) 2018” Event that received a total of 70 participants (lecturers, students, experts) from  31 universities’ Preparatory Programs and some publishers was hosted in our university by our English Language School on 28^th April 2018. The MOCA Event, the first of which had been organized by Ege University with the participation of 22 Universities in May 2017, completely matches our institutional student-centered approach to education. Thus, we are proud and glad to have hosted it at our school.

MOCA 2018 kicked off with the opening remarks by the Director of TEDU ELS; Dr. Nuray  Lük Grove, our student representative; Şevval Kır, and our lecturer Taşkın Taş on behalf of the hosting team. Then, several questions formulated around this year’s theme “Learner Engagement” were discussed in small focus groups both from the students’ and from the teachers’ perspectives by the representatives of the participating institutions (list below), to be later shared with all the participants in a plenary panel discussion session. The sharing and exchange of information during these sessions proved highly significant and fruitful in terms of providing the Preparatory Programs in Turkey with tangible recommendations and constructive feedback.

In the pre-evaluation carried out during the Closing Session, 91% of the participants have expressed a high amount of appreciation and satisfaction regarding the event. In addition, Lecturer Tuğba Yeğin from Ege University has given a closing speech on behalf of the MOCA Founding Team wherein she thanked the MOCA 2018 Hosting Team for their efforts and collaboration. Finally, a lucky draw was performed among the 4 candidate universities in order to determine next year’s hosting institution as Sabancı University.

Further information regarding the outcomes of the event as well as the videos of the opening remarks and panel session presentations will be available on the event’s website at: mocaturkey.wordpress.com in the following days.

REGISTERED INSTITUTIONS
(in alphabetical order)

• Abant İzzet Baysal University 
• Adana Bilim Teknik University 
• Alanya HEP University
• Anadolu University
• Ankara University
• Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University
• Atılım University
• Başkent University
• Bilkent University
• Çanakkale 18 Mart University
• Dumlupınar University
• Ege University
• Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University
• İstanbul Gelişim University
• İstanbul Kültür University
• İstanbul Medeniyet University
• İstanbul Şehir University
• İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University
• Kapadokya University
• Karabük University
• Okan University
• Osmangazi University
• Özyeğin University
• Sabancı University
• TED University
• THK University
• TOBB ETU
• Torku University
• Ufuk University
• Yaşar University