About Dr. Tugba Boz

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, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye. 12/2013.
Thesis: Difficulties teachers experience in 4+4+4 education system at first grade level.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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

2023–2024 Postdoctoral Scholar, Purdue University & Montana State University

2022 Visiting Research Fellow, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä

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

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

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