E-Mentoring: a Novel Approach in the Use of Technology in Education 5th Int. Conf. on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training: ITHET‘04 E-Mentoring: a Novel Approach in the Use of Technology in Education Erol İnelmen Boğaziçi University İstanbul-TURKEY May, 31 2004

Outline 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 3. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 4. CASE STUDY 5. DISCUSSION 6. CONCLUSION 7. ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training INTRODUCTION Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training

Information Technology Mediated Higher Education and Training

THEORETICAL BACKGROUND There is, therefore, every reason to place renewed emphasis on the moral and cultural dimensions of education, enabling each person to grasp the individuality of other people and to understand the world’s erratic progression towards a certain unity; but this process must begin with self-understanding through an inner voyage whose milestones are knowledge, meditation and the practice of self-criticism [3]. UNESCO “Learning: The Treasure Within”, UNESCO Publication, Paris, 1996.

“character consists in the readiness to act in accordance to maxims” “the sciences which they learned without any order in their early education will be brought together and they will be able to see the natural relationship of sciences to one another and to true being” Plato, Republic, VII 537 “character consists in the readiness to act in accordance to maxims” Kant, I. Education, The University of Michigan, Michigan, 1960, pp.6.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS Özen, R, “Mentoring, gender and ideological perspectives: a case study” PhD thesis (unpublished) Boğaziçi University, 1998.

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CASE STUDY

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CONCLUSION

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The former Dean of the engineering faculty the late ACKNOWLEDGMENT The former Dean of the engineering faculty the late Prof. Adnan Halet Taşpınar of the university we are affiliated has been instrumental in developing a culture for personal support for the learner.