5 th 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,

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

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” Kant, I. Education, The University of Michigan, Michigan, 1960, pp.6. “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

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS Özen, R, “Mentoring, gender and ideological perspectives: a case study” PhD thesis (unpublished) Boğaziçi University, 1998.

Search Recognize Classify Understand Predict Decide Control MENTAL MODELS EXAMPLES To: FA path class categories media * outcome solution system + Try routes Group sets Set values Find exit Give output Choose way Fix output ? * text, sound, graph after Winston, P.H., 1984

CASE STUDY

Commandments for the universal well being : past present future what why which history philosophy mathematics

DISCUSSION Brief Periodic Relevant Prompt

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CONCLUSION

On education To:OK Review literature Involve stakeholders Engage learner Mentor graduate Design curriculum Prepare schedule Empower partners Education today needs to be revitalized Learners should be aware of frontier research Employers, parents, educators, etc. must be involved Modular schedule with team teaching adopted Top down approach enhances motivation Life long learning must be encouraged Learner should be like a partner Active participation in the class via projects

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.