Blacksea Technical University, National Educational Associations and Pegem Academy collaborated for the 26th International Educational Sciences Congress (ICES/UEBK-2017), that took place in Antalya on 20-23 April 2017, which had Sebit as one of the sponsors.

The congress main title was “Education in a Globalizing World,” and local as well as foreign educational experts shared their experience and scientific studies. Workshops were organized about teachers training and education.

In addition to invited speakers and workshops, posters and conference speeches were presented, as well as an International Joint Exhibition.

Teachers who wanted to attend the congress, but couldn’t travel to Antalya on those dates, had the opportunity to follow the speeches, workshops and sessions at the Blacksea Hall through live broadcast from the Vitamin Teachers Portal.

Turish Telecom’s eductional technology company Sebit, attended the TEDU Career Fair, which was organized by TEDU in Ankara. At the fair, ProG, which is the professional and personal development portal, and HızlıGo which is the one and only tabletPC compliant speed reading platform in the world, captured great interest of the attendees.

London was once again the stage for the world’s most important educational technologies fair BETT (British Education and Training Technology Exhibition).

In BETT Expo that took place in the first month of 2017, Sebit showcased Sebit VCloud which is a wholesome educational solution. Sebit was at the MoNE stand, with the MoNE itself and the solution that Sebit developed for national Educational IT Network of Turkey. Sebit VCloud had very favorable comments, from not only educators and the representatives of ministries of education of various countries, but also big players of the IT industry.

Sebit VCloud is a comprehensive educational product at the global scale, which was prominent at the show with its breadth as compared to the products of other companies that had limited usage areas. Sebit made a difference with the educational experiences and its vision that focus on the big picture. Yet another strong suit of Sebit in content quality, gained the appreciation of the global educational professionals.

Sebit VCloud was presented in this large organization to a large public including the representatives of ministries of education of various countries, upper management of many companies, journalists, teachers and students. Those representatives, who paid extra attention to the product, as it was aligned with their national policies, was given presentations that are more detailed.

The Turkish Private Schools Association, with the “Educational Foresight” theme organizes the 26th Conventional Educational Symposium in Antalya on 26-28 January 2017.

The symposium titled “Educational Foresight,” which was broadcast live at the Vitamin Teachers Portal, attracted over 1200 attendees including Ministry of National Education officers, Turkish and foreign scientists who are experts in their field, educational experts, print and visual media press and founders, school leaders and teachers of private schools.

Aside from presentations, conferences and panels, Sebit’s products that shape the world of education received great interest from the attendees.

The attendees had the chance to closely inspect and experience products such as Raunt, which is the one and only personalized university preparation solution in Turkey; Vitamin, which is the leading online educational product in Turkey that covers from the pre-school years to the high school grades; Sebit VCloud, which is the collaboration-based next generation educational management system; DinamikMAT, which is the one and only “smart question generation system” in Turkey and HızlıGo, which is the world's one and only tabletPC compliant, online speed reading platform.

The Minister of Education İsmet Yılmaz visited Sebit, the leading educational technology company of Turkey, in order to learn about the work Sebit carries out in partnership with the MoNE, in Fatih project. Turkish Telecom CEO Paul Doany, Sebit CEO Ahmet Eti, MoNE officers and Sebit managers, accompanied the Minister.

The Minister examined the updated Educational IT Network with collaborative features, new content designs based on qualifications, content development tools, teachers’ trainings and new features that are planned to be added.

The Minister said that the government was determined to introduce technological novelties in the educational lives of our children and along that direction, they would advance in cooperation with solution partners.

VFab which is the HTML5 Content Development Platform. Sebit developed for teachers to create authentic content easily, was released on the National Educational IT Network, thanks to the collaboration of Sebit with the YEĞİTEK.

The first round of training was provided to a batch of 60 teachers in Sebit at the TT ArGe Center in METU Technopolis. Those lucky teachers had the privilege to try out and to learn about this new product, straight from the developers and managers of the product.

At the event, teachers enjoyed creating rich content without having to learn any specific coding language. They did not even need any assistance from the experts. They were clearly excited to develop interactive exercises, experiments, animations and educational games on their own, focusing on learning about the fine art of quality content design.

Moreover, the content development process itself improves skills such as systematic design, planning, algorithmic thinking and collaboration. The training process and VFab will help teachers gain these skills as well.

At the beginning of February 2017, H2020 BEACONING project general assembly convened in Madrid, Spain for the Integration Design. The host was UCM – University Complutense of Madrid and Sebit was present as a work package leader. Sebit is the leader of the business development for this project where 15 partners from 10 countries join to create a game-based learning platform.

Even though the market implementation of the project is still at least one year ahead, the business models presented by Sebit created a positive outlook for the future of the project.

The leading educational technology company of Turkey, Sebit, participated the BETT Middle East Fair in Abu Dhabi.

The event where Sebit showcased the Sebit VCloud solution, took place during the first week of April 2016, and Sebit was co-exhibitors with Microsoft as a global business partner.

Sebit General Manager Ahmet Eti made a presentation at the 4th International Educational Forum. The forum was titled “We believe in Turkey’s Future: We Study the Future” and it took place at TED Ankara Collage, on 2nd April 2016. Ahmet Eti talked about the hardship of predicting conceptual changes and transformations that take place in an extended period of time; about products that was transformed by the early user base, which in return transformed a much larger user base; about the concept of “becoming the new natural” that describes products that become transparent to the naked eye, which once was considered a novelty.

At the session which had the theme: “Human Beings and Education at a Perspective of Future from the Past,” subjects such as short and long term changes in the society, the analysis of predictions made in the past about today were discussed and Ahmet Eti, used interesting examples stretching from Star Trek technology to brain replication, in order to explain the potential role of technology in the transformation of education.

On 14th March 2016, at the “Culture, Science, Education and Media Committee” meeting of the European Council Parliamentary Assembly, Sebit’s presentation of FATIH Project Educational Technology received great interest.

At the meeting where educational agendas of various countries were laid out, Deputy Secretary of Ministry of National Education Dinçer Ateş and Sebit VP of Business Development İlker Helvacı made two presentations.

While Dinçer Ateş introduced the philosophy of the project, implementation processes, impacts on education and the current status, İlker Helvacı provided information about the contributions to educational transformation of the Sebit VCloud components specially developed for the project such as content ecosystem, collaborative learning and the professional development environment for the teachers.

Know-how created by the Fatih Project which is regarded as the “largest scale educational technology initiative in the world,” alongside EBA which is the one and only national Educational IT Network in the world was discussed. Adaptation to the educational systems of various countries were planned and on this occasion, the members of committee univocally appreciated Sebit’s innovations in content and system development.

Prof. Dr. Nurdan Kalaycı and her students from Gazi University Faculty of Education visited Sebit, the leading educational technology company of Turkey, on 30th November 2016.

Our VP of Training, Sadi Türeli presented them important accomplishments of Sebit since its foundation. Later experts who develop Vitamin and Vitamin Teachers Portal presented their production processes.

Next, the students visited Sebit studios for video and audio production and observed how these units work.

These future teachers all acknowledged the value of Vitamin Teachers Portal for their professional development and they claimed it was an inspiring experience for them to learn more about it.

New approaches to basic STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education and their role in our educational policies were discussed in a panel titled “STEM Education in Turkey and in the World” organized by Ankara University.

The panel that took place at the Hasan Ali Yücel Hall, in the university Educational Sciences Faculty, Cebeci campus, was broadcast live at the Vitamin Teachers Portal.

The talks by invited speakers in the panel were as follows:

Prof. Dr. Orhan Arıkan - Bilkent University Engineering Faculty “The Importance of Industry Oriented Capstone Projects in Engineering”

Prof. Dr. Erdinç Çakıroğlu – METU Faculty of Education "STEM Education in a World which is Changing and What this Means for Turkey”

Doç. Dr. Gültekin Çakmakçı - Hacettepe University Faculty of Education “We need Upgraded Educational Policies for Industry 4.0!”

Doç. Dr. Eren Ceylan - Ankara University Educational Sciences Faculty “STEM, OECD, IAE, PISA, TIMSS and the others...”

Game-based learning (BEACONING) and learning analytics (LEA’s Box) projects, which are EC funded R&D project that Sebit participates as work package leader is presented to the Fatih teachers.

Sebit is taking part in world-class R&D projects since 2003 and on an occasion where 100 Fatih teachers met in Sebit for training on the use of technology in the classrooms, Sebit presented them the current projects that it is involved. In these presentations educational technology of 2020s were discussed, which the teachers showed some great interest.

Turkish Intelligence Foundation and METU Faculty of Education collaborated to organize the 4th Intelligence and Talent Congress in METU.

Keynote speakers Prof.Dr. Sevil Atasoy, Dr. Şeref Oğuz and Prof. Dr. Ziya Selçuk made colorful and inspiring presentations and the panel was moderated by Özgürcan Çevik who hosted Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Aşkım Kapışmak and Ümmiye Kolçak.

Sebit, Microsoft and Maya Schools head teachers joined in this Minecraft Edu 2016 training delivered by Stephen Reid, which took place at Maya Incek Campus on 16th November 2016. The principle was set as: “If our kids do not learn the way we teach, then we will teach the way they learn.”

Stephen Reid introduced a large set of serious games that can be used in education, which was followed by demonstrations of Minecraft Edu. The training was hands on and the attendees who themselves used Minecraft Edu, examined the course designs first, before creating their own.

Universities, state schools, private schools and technology companies, majority of which was educational technology companies met at the Technology and Education Fair, organized by The Association of Educational Technology on 11-13 November 2016.

The event took place at Istanbul Congress Center and this year’s motto was “Connect via Education.” Sebit took part in the event and Sebit CEO Ahmet Eti delivered a speech at the technology and education panel. Murat Engin, who is an educational expert in Sebit, presented Sebit’s work in Fatih project with a speech titled “The Transformation of Education with Technology.”

The program included 100 sessions, panels, workshops and poster presentations. The fair lasted 3 days. Thousands of students and teachers visited the stands to discover new educational technologies. School leaders and founders had a chance to meet various firms to evaluate their products and negotiate. As such the event aims at providing a 360 degrees view on the state of educational technology in Turkey.

Sebit and YEĞİTEK are collaborating to realize the third training session with teachers, where they can acquire new competencies in digital content development. The goal of the training is to let teachers be self-sufficient in developing authentic content, lead the content teams in their schools and constitute a bridge between those teams and Sebit-YEĞİTEK.

63 state schoolteachers from various disciplines such as Physics, Chemistry, Biology, High School Maths, Middle School Maths, Middle School Sciences and Geography, gathered at Turkish Telecom R&D Center in METU Technopolis where Sebit is located during 5-16 December 2016.

A post-test of 50 questions was applied and those who answered more than 45 questions were awarded a certificate of achievement. More precisely, these teachers have achieved the below outcomes:

* Knows the complete educational scenario development process.
* Understands the educational design process and can compare sample implementations.
* Grasps the theoretical and practical aspects of 5E content design.
* Makes 5E content designs in his/her own branch.
* Designs lesson plans and populates content parts using various tools and content libraries.
* Uses lesson plan editor effectively.
* Personalizes lesson plans according to student needs.

The content that these teachers produce will be shared at the Educational IT Network, EBA, forming a large digital content ecosystem in time.

FATIH project Educational Technologies Summit was organized in Ankara on 4-5 November 2016. Turkish Telecom CEO Paul Doany gave speech in the event where innovations in education and educational technologies were discussed. Paul Doany said that the future of learning and teaching methods would be shaped by educational technologies. He noted the importance of Vitamin in the Fatih project, which is the largest educational support product in Turkey. Paul Doany reminded that Turkish Telecom provided Vitamin free of charge to the homes of all the students in the country and he announced that soon, pre-school content would also be added to Vitamin, covering all educational grades up until the university.

Sebit is the leading educational technology company of Turkey and Sebit used its 29 years of experience to develop the one and only personalized university preparation product for young students.

The product was introduced with a teaser campaign that involved video scenes that reflect the hardship and struggles of candidate during the preparation period. These short clips are displayed at major media outlets such as movie theaters.

In addition to Facebook quiz game was released so that students would compete for fun and win awards ranging from price tickets to top mobile phone devices and subscriptions for the product itself.

Microsoft Turkey organized a special day for Education Specific Solutions and Applications, in its Istanbul offices on 24th September 2016.

The solutions that Microsoft global and local business partners have developed on Microsoft platforms for educational sectors were presented. Sebit’s VP of business development İlker Helvacı made a presentation in this event with the title “Digital Content, Tracking Learning in a Portal, Classroom Management, and Learning Management System.”

The United Nations Development Program and Turk Telekom hosted the Social Good Summit, which was held on more than 70 countries in the same days, on September 29, 2016 in Istanbul. Ahmet Eti who is a powerful educational designer foreseen today's education 30 years ago, answered for the major question "What kind of world, do I want to live in 2030?"

Sebit and YEĞİTEK collaborated during 20th July - 12th September 2015 to train 1000 teachers at Mersin Suphi Öner Teachers Guesthouse. Teachers from 12 different cities including Ankara, İstanbul, Bursa, Samsun, İzmir, Antalya, Mersin, Kayseri, Şanlıurfa, Erzurum, Van and Eskişehir took one week turns to gather at the guesthouse and receive training from expert academicians.

One month following the training period all the participating academicians met at Sebit premises in Turkish Telecom R&D Center in METU Technopolis and presented with paquets by Sebit CEO Ahmet Eti and YEĞİTEK General Manager Dinçer Ateş.

Prof. Dr. Ziya Selçuk coordinated the training seminars in Mersin and he has lead this awards ceremony as well.

About 30 German high school students who were paying a visit to Turkey with their head teacher attended presentations in Sebit about the innovative educational technologies that are developed.

Sebit is the leading educational technology company in Turkey and the students used this opportunity to ask questions and inquire about future technologies with Sebit experts.

Nearly 1000 teachers from 12 different cities took 6 days turns at Mersin Suphi Öner Teachers Guesthouse in groups of 120 to attend training on digital content development for technology-enhanced classrooms.

The training is a result of Sebit and YEĞİTEK collaboration and lasted during 20th July - 12th September 2015.

Following the hands-on training, these teachers are expected to contribute rich content parts to Educational IT Network, EBA, and help creating a large pool of valuable educational assets.