1. Distance Education in Primary and Secondary Schools Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK General Director Republic of Turkey Ministry of National Education General Directorate of Educational Technologies

2. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 2 Overview  Accessing Information Portal  Global Gateway  Skoool  Virtual School  Think.com  Distance Education Schools  MONE Internet TV and Internet Radio

3. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 3 Some Figures about Turkey Area814 578 km2 Population72 065 000 (2005) Number of Provinces81

4. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 4 Number of Students, Teachers and Schools (2005-2006) SchoolsStudentsTeachers Primary Education 34 99010 673 935389 859 Secondary Education 7 4353 258 254185 317 TOTAL42 42513 932 189575 176

5. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 5 Turkish National Education System Types of Institutions ComputersInternet *StudentsStudents per Computer Primary Education 238 00015 75810 673 93545 Secondary Education 168 0005 0023 258 25419 Total406 00020 76013 932 18934 * ADSL Internet connections to other MONE institutions: 3 364 Total Connections: 24 124

6. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 6 Usage of Computers

7. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 7 Accessing Information Portal  Accessing Information Portal has been launched in 2006.  Purpose:  Integration of e-learning techniques to education,  More effective education,  Individual learning,  Linkages to the other educational web pages on the Internet.

8. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 8  Services:  Educational softwares that support curriculum,  Educational contents for students, teachers, administrators and parents Accessing Information Portal

9. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 9 Accessing Information Portal  Services:  Foreign Language Teaching  Vocational Education  e-Mail and web pages for students,  Search engines and links

10. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 10 Accessing Information Portal

11. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 11 Global Gateway  Turkey is a partner of Global Gateway site;  Protocol between British Council and MONE

12. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 12 Global Gateway

13. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 13 Skoool.tr  “skoool.tr” education portal is an information source for students, teachers and parents.

14. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 14 Skoool.tr

15. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 15 Think.com  “Think.com” provides an environment for students and teachers to share their ideas and help to each other.  The translation of “Think.com” education portal has been completed.

16. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 16 Think.com

17. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 17 Virtual School  Purpose:  To support students and teachers in formal education with web-based teaching and learning materials,  To support lesson activities with web-based materials  Virtual School will be launched in www.egitim.gov.tr www.egitim.gov.tr

18. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 18 Virtual School

19. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 19 Distance Education Schools  Open High School, Open Primary School, Open Vocational High School and Open Vocational and Technical School  Students’ course books are published from web pages.

20. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 20 Internet TV and Radio  Internet TV and Radio  Audio-visual educational materials in archieves of General Directorate of Educational Technologies,  TV and Radio programs of Open High School, Open Primary School, Open Vocational High School and Open Vocational and Technical School. are broadcasted via internet for students and teachers.

21. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 21 Internet TV and Radio

22. Prof. Dr. Nizami AKTÜRK 22 THANK YOU ! nakturk@meb.gov.tr