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Conference Object Simulation Based Surgical Education Programs and Hand Performance(Ieee, 2015) Eyuboglu, Burak Gokberk; Topallı, Damla; Topalli, Damla; Çağıltay, Nergiz; Cagiltay, Nergiz Ercil; Tonbul, Gokcen; Topallı, Damla; Çağıltay, Nergiz; Information Systems Engineering; Software Engineering; Information Systems Engineering; Software EngineeringThe performance of the left-and right-hands of a person may be different from each other. In general, people use one hand with a superior performance compared to the other hand where that hand is preferred for performing daily activities. It is critical to understand their preference for right or left hand use, especially in cases where the skills should be improved to use both hands precisely in activities required special abilities such as endoscopic surgical operations. A better understanding of these cases will improve the quality of existing surgical education programs, and make a major contribution specifically in designing, improving and managing of simulation-based instructional technologies. In this study, the right-and left-hand preferences (handedness) of people are analyzed from the literature and a simulation-based experimental study is conducted in order to examine the performance differences of the participants while using their right and left hands. The results of this study aimed to guide the curriculum designers and instructional system developers for better designing and developing simulation-based surgical education programs.Article Implementation of Topic Study Activities in Engineering Education(2015) Topallı, Damla; Çağıltay, NergizRecent studies have shown that, there is a need to propose new approaches and educational methods in order to address current problems of engineering education programs. This study summarized the implementation of a real life term project and Topic Study concepts in an engineering education course. The curriculum of this course is organized to provide skills on making presentation, research and applying knowledge to solve real-life problems, preparing reports and making discussions on a specific topic. This study describes as a case study how these problems are addressed in an engineering education course namely Data Warehousing and Data Mining. It is aimed to improve students’ motivation and interest to the course as well as to improve their active participation in the course. By this approach it is aimed to help them to construct their own knowledge. This paper also presents the structure of the course and evaluation of grades with the results of a survey on students’ opinion about the real-life term project and Topic Study approaches in this course.
