Professor Aytac Gogus is dean of the Faculty of Education and a professor of Educational Sciences at Istanbul Okan University, Turkey since July 1, 2020. Prof. Gogus is department chair of Educational Science Department at Istanbul Okan University since March 1, 2015.

Professor Gogus was a visiting research scholar at the Department of Curriculum & Instruction of the Judith Herb College of Education at University of Toledo between July 21, 2014 and January 20, 2015.

She was an Educational Researcher and coordinator of Special Support Sessions in Academic Support Program at Sabancı University, Center for Individual and Academic Development between September 10, 2007 and February 28, 2015 to design and run training programs for students from various fields and knowledge bases for general education courses in a liberal education curricula.

She received her PhD degree in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation (IDD&E) in 2006 and her MA in May 2001 at Syracuse University, USA. She received MS in Mathematics from the Middle East Technical University in January 1999, and BSc in Mathematics from Gazi University in June 1994. She has 5 years of teaching experiences in K-12 and 20 years of teaching experiences in higher education in both Turkey and USA.

A world citizen and an internationally renowned academician, visionary, principled, productive, and caring for those around her. She is an academician who work in harmony with kindness and principles with her character of workaholism, engagement and a high organizational commitment level in the institutions. She is a mother of two sharp teenagers and a wife of a Mathematics Professor.

Between September 2007 and February 2015, she has worked in Academic Support Program (ASP) of the Center for Individual and Academic Development at Sabancı University to design and run training programs for students from various fields and knowledge bases.

Between July 21, 2014 and January 20, 2015, she was a visiting research scholar at the Department of Curriculum & Instruction of the Judith Herb College of Education at University of Toledo. Between May 2006 and May2007, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation (IDD&E) at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. Between October 2005 and May 2007, she worked as a course writer and instructional designer on designing and developing college level online mathematics courses for McGraw Hill Higher Education Online. At the same time, she worked as a Vice President for Communication at Training and Performance Division of Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) in 2007-2008.

She published a book called “Teachers’ Voice”, 15 book chapters, and many articles in SSCI indexed journals that are cited in the literature. One of her book chapter, “Reconceptualizing a College Liberal Arts Curriculum based on the 21st Century Skills” was published in the book “Emerging Technologies for STEAM Education”. She has eleven different chapters related to educational psychology and learning theories that were published in the Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. She had another chapter in the Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. She was co-author of the book chapter “Competitiveness of Top 100 U.S. Universities: A Benchmark Study Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Information Visualization” in the book titled Strategic Measurement and Management Performance using Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory and Applications.

She has contributions to the research in learning, complex skill acquisition, program evaluation, higher-order thinking skills, study skills, learning habits, and privacy perception and information technology utilization. She has also important contributions to the research in teaching and technology integration, adoption to innovative teaching methods, diffusion of innovation, faculty development, and teacher training. Her courses at Faculty of Education include Principles of Teaching and Learning, Measurement and Evaluation, Non-Test Techniques, Learning Psychology, Program Development and Evaluation, and Instructional Technologies.

Professor Aytac Gogus has good project management skills and runs interdisciplinary research projects. She administrated a research project, Evaluation of Mental Models in Mathematics Domain, which was supported by TUBITAK. In addition, she was a researcher in two grant projects supported by TUBITAK. The first grant project was “Developing Handwriting Recognition Technologies for Smart Classrooms and Its Use in E-Content Development” and the second grant project was “Privacy Preserving Data Analysis and Publishing in Education”.

Professor Aytac Gogus and Dr. Ozgur Bolat led Teacher Leadership project as the first application of International Teacher Leader Project in Turkey, first started at the Cambridge University in England and was put into practice in 14 countries. I provided training programs for teachers related to instructional strategies, classroom management, assessment of student learning and students learning and thinking styles, technology integration into classroom activities. Another international project that she has worked on bringing OPEDUCA (OPen EDUCational Areas) project into Turkey as “OPEDUCA Istanbul”, administrated by RCE Rhine-Meuse in Holland and supported by European Union and UNESCO.

While in the IDD&E program at Syracuse University, she had excellent opportunities to gain experiences in both K-12 and higher education settings. She got the Project Management Award for thoughtful and feasible guidance on funded Research and Development Projects at IDD&E program. Professor Gogus was a researcher in the “Enhanced Evaluation of Learning in Complex Domains” project funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) and conducted by Professor J. Michael Spector and Professor Tiffany A. Koszalka. She contributed to this study by designing, conducting, analyzing, and reporting upon the DEEP (Dynamic Evaluation of Enhanced Problem Solving) research methodology.

In another IDD&E research project, she conducted observations and interviews with middle school science teachers who trained in Web-Enhanced Learning Environment Strategies through the integration of NASA's missions-based Astronomy and Space Science research, conducted by Professor Tiffany A. Koszalka. Also, she worked in a formative evaluation project of literacy projects funded by the Central New York Community Foundation and worked program evaluation projects with Professor Nick L. Smith and Professor Philip A. Doughty. She took advantages of her interdisciplinary background and could contribute to education projects in different contexts and in different fields.

Currently, Professor Gogus has conducted the need assessment study about teaching competencies and training for faculty members in 2021 and then developed and implemented a faculty support program titled "Training of the Trainers". Faculty Support Program has been conducted since the academic year 2021-2022 by Professor Gogus to establish a learning community between faculty members from different faculties and various domains. Also, Faculty Development Program has been conducted since the academic year 2022-2023 by Professor Gogus for ensuring the quality and the productivity in higher education institutions.