EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Educational Theory and Practice, University of Georgia, GA, USA. 12/2020.
Dissertation: Activity theory as a lens: Understanding elementary school teachers’ learning of coding and robotics in the context of administrators’ corresponding decision-making processes.

Graduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies, University of Georgia, GA, USA.

MSc in Curriculum and Instruction, METU, Ankara, Türkiye. 12/2013.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2025– Assistant Professor, Instructional Design and Technology, University of North Dakota

2023–2024 Postdoctoral Scholar, Purdue University

2022 Visiting Research Fellow, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

2021–2022 Assistant Professor, Digital Learning, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

2018–2021 Graduate Research Assistant & Consultant, University of Georgia, GA

2017–2018 Math Teacher & Site Coordinator, Fowler Drive Elementary School, Athens, GA

2013–2016 Education Planner & Teacher, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (MSFAU), Istanbul, Turkiye

2009–2010 Language and Culture Comenius Assistant, European Commission Program, Istituto Istruzione Superiore "N. Miraglia", Lauria, Italy