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MoveLab members Dr. Murat Turk and Ceyhun Muftuoglu with Dr. Sinem Toraman-Turk from Cincinnati Children’s presented their research Students’ Perceptions and Experiences about Engagement Strategies in Online Courses: A Mixed Methods Study at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2022 in San Diego, CA. Kudos to the MoveLab and these great researchers!

OU MoveLab member Murat has successfully defended his dissertation today! Congrats, Dr. Turk!  

  MoveLab member Murat Turk with his co-researchers from MoveLab and other US universities is going to present two empirical studies on student engagement and cognitive presence in online learning environments at American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2022 International Conference in San Diego. Congrats, Murat!

MoveLab member Murat Turk has published, with MoveLab member Ali Ceyhun Muftuoglu and Dr. Sinem Toraman, in Online Learning Journal (OLJ), one of the top-tier journals in online education. Congrats, Murat! You are on a roll! Link to article: Teaching Presence in Online Courses: Similar Perceptions but Different Experiences from Multiple Instructor Perspectives | Turk | Online Learning (onlinelearningconsortium.org)

MoveLab member Murat Turk has published, with MoveLab founder Dr. Benjamin Heddy and Dr. Robert Danielson from Washington State University, a research article in Computers and Education, the top-tier journal in the field of educational technology and online education. This is fantastic news, Murat! Congrats team! Here is the link to the article: Teaching and social presences supporting basic needs satisfaction in online learning environments: How can presences and basic needs happily meet online? – Read more

A new publication that came out yesterday, with co-authors from Mackenzie Presbyterian University (Sao Paolo, Brazil), regarding sustainability in the tourism/hotel sector entitled, “Responses to vignettes as a methodology to reveal hoteliers’ sustainability practices, knowledge and competencies.” Congrats, Mark! Find the article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2021.1994981 

Dr. Heddy recently was elected president of SCIPIE, the Scholarly Consortium for Innovative Psychology in Education, a professional organization devoted to the study of psychology in education. Congratulations to Dr. Benjamin C. Heddy!

Two of our OU LOVE Lab Members, Murat Turk and Ceyhun Müftüoğlu, are among the 13 members of the Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) who are receiving the “Presidential Special Service Award” at the next week’s AECT annual convention (Nov. 2-Nov. 6, in Chicago and online), in recognition of their contribution to the success of the 2020 AECT virtual conference – the first virtual conference in the AECT history. Read more

OU MOVE lab member Tiffany Peltier has earned the Society of the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR)Taylor and Francis Award. Congratulations, Tiffany!