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Bu çalismanin amaci, AB FP7 Era.Net Rusya isbirligi kapsaminda TÜBITAK destegi ile yürütülen Ülkeler Arasi Ögrenme için Katalizör olarak Sosyal Medya (SoMeCat)5 adli arastirma projesi kapsaminda, Türkiye ve Almanya'da yüksekögretim düzeyindeki egitmenlerin sosyal medyaya karsi algisini belirleyerek iki ülke arasindaki kültürel farkliliklari ortaya çikarmaktir. Bu nitel arastirma, durum çalismasi olarak tasarlanmistir. Katilimcilar amaçli örnekleme yöntemine göre seçilmistir. Türkiye'den Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi (ODTÜ) ve Ankara Üniversitesi (AÜ), Almanya'dan Konstanz Gölü Üniversitesi (KGÜ) ve Berlin Teknik Üniversitesi (BTÜ) katilimci üniversitelerdir. Toplam 22 gönüllü egitmenle (Türkiye 12, Almanya 10) görüsme yapilmistir. Görüsmeler yüz yüze ya da Skype/Hangout kullanilarak çevrimiçi yapilmistir. Görüsme formunda arastirmacilar tarafindan gelistirilen 11 açik uçlu soru bulunmaktadir. Görüsmeler, 20-60 dakika arasinda degisiklik göstermistir. Toplanan veriler, katilimcilarin demografik bilgileri, göç, güncel teknolojiler, günlük hayatta ve egitsel ortamlarda sosyal medya kullanimi ve algilarin yani sira kültürel farkliliklar açisindan analiz edilmistir. Elde edilen verilere göre, egitmenler sosyal medyanin egitim odakli potansiyelinin farkindadir ancak yeterli seviyede bilinçli degildir. Iki ülkeye göre egitmenlerin kullandigi ortak araçlar olmasina ragmen, farklik gösteren araçlar da bulunmustur. Bazi egitmenler egitimle sosyal medya araçlarinin bütünlestirilmesinde sorun yasamaktadir. Türkler, bu sorunlarin genel olarak mevcut altyapinin yetersizligi ve egitsel rehberlik edici kilavuzlarin eksikliginden kaynaklandigini belirtmistir. Almanlarin çogu pozitif görüse sahiptir. Genel olarak iki ülkede de egitim kurumlarinin bir plan ve stratejiye sahip olmamasinin büyük bir sorun oldugu görülmüstür. Ayrica, egitimde sosyal medya araçlarinin kullanimina yönelik kurumlarin egitmenleri tesvik edici herhangi bir politikasi ya da stratejisi olmadigi sonucuna varilmistir. Social media is becoming more prevalent in educational environments. It is used for enhancing communication, making students more interested and active, enhancing students' motivation, sharing course materials, etc. in educational settings. Therefore, to benefit social media more in educational settings, their existing potential for educational purposes should be explored in depth. In this context, the characteristic features of social media tools should be defined clearly. Moreover, the attitude of students and educators toward social media is another important issue. For this purpose, attitudes of instructors toward social media at higher education institutions was tried to be investigated finding out cultural differences among two countries in this study. This study included a part of a joint research project named Social Media as Catalyzer for Cross National Learning (SoMeCat) within the scope of EU FP7 Era.Net Russia and supported by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). The purpose of this study is to investigate the attitudes of educators toward social media at higher education institutions in Turkey and Germany and also compare and explore the potential cultural differences between two countries.

Gulbahar, Yasemin/0000-0002-1726-3224; Kilis, Selcan/0000-0001-5751-2363 ; WOS: 000396369300003 ; While ubiquitous in everyday use, in reality, social media usage within higher education teaching has expanded quite slowly. Analysis of social media usage of students and instructors for teaching, learning, and research purposes across four countries (Russia, Turkey, Germany, and Switzerland) showed that many higher education instructors actively use social media for private purposes. However, although they understand that their students also use it for learning purposes, and instructors sense the potential of social media in teaching, they mostly refrain from doing so due to various barriers. In response, an openly accessible trilingual Social Media Toolkit was developed which analyzes the teaching scenario with several questions, before suggesting, based on an algorithm, the best matching class of social media, complete with advice on how to use it for teaching purposes. This paper explains the rationale behind the toolkit, its development process, and examines instructors' perceptions towards it. ; European Union FP7 Era.Net RUS [135]; TUBITAK (Turkish Government Scientific Research Organization) [112K362] ; This work was supported by the European Union FP7 Era.Net RUS under Grant #135; TUBITAK (Turkish Government Scientific Research Organization) under Grant 112K362.