c. Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor 09/09 - Present
- Best Practices in Web Design
- Computer Applications
- Database Systems
- Educational Planning
- Electronic Portfolios (e-portfolios) for Career Development
- Introduction to Information Systems
- IT & Society
- Management Information Systems
- Project Management
- Web Design and Development
- Web Design Principles & Practices
Northeast Center, State University of New York (SUNY) - Empire State College (ESC)
Senior Online Instructor 10/03 – 04/09
(Received the Everest Online Instructor of the Year Award for 2007-2008)
Courses Taught
(Course design and development activities are listed in the next section.)
- CGS 1763 Computer Operating Systems
This course focuses on the software operating systems that run today’s personal computers. Emphasis will be placed on commands, functions, and terminology through practical instruction in the installation, configuration, and upgrade of operating systems.
- CGS 2071 Spreadsheets
In this course, students gain basic and intermediate skills on MS Excel 2007 with the help of a series of hands-on training activities. Throughout the course, students study various MS Excel related topics and also learn how to prepare standard business forms with the application.
- CGS 2167/CGS 2110 Computer Applications
This course introduces a series of concepts necessary to make effective use of personal computers. Students achieve an understanding of what a personal computer can do, how it works, and how it can be used to create documents using word processing (MS Word 2007) and spreadsheet applications (MS Excel 2007) for personal and business use. This course also teaches students how to prepare presentations by using MS PowerPoint 2007. In the earlier versions of the course, students used MS Office XP and 2003.
- CGS 2510 Applied Spreadsheets
This course covers various topics related to MS Excel 2007. Those course include creating workbooks, utilizing editing and formatting tools, using formulas and functions, employing creative formatting, building charts, working with multiple worksheets and lists, building templates, working with macros, using analysis and auditing tools, and utilizing database features and pivot tables.
- CGS 2820 Web Authoring
In this course, students explore the use of graphics and multimedia to develop Web-based applications. The course covers techniques for developing rich media using fundamental graphic design concepts and tools, and Web page content management techniques utilizing tables, links, and dynamic content.
- CIS 1760 Web Site Design Methodology
This course provides the foundation for Web site design required by today’s Web developers. The course includes Web design concepts, site development and management techniques, and basic Web technologies. Students develop basic Web pages containing text, graphics, hyperlinks, tables, and frames using popular Web development software (when Dr. Cetiner taught the course, students used MS FrontPage 2000/2003 and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004).
- CIS 1821/CIS 1800 Web Content Development
This course covers a series of essential topics on designing Web pages. Using a text editor and a graphical user interface (GUI) editor, students learn to create Web pages containing text, hyperlinks, graphics, tables, forms, and frames. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and the basics of Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) are also covered as part of the course.
- Faculty Development course on Plagiarism (11/05 – 12/05)
This course focused on strategies for identifying plagiarism and preventing it from happening in courses, and it led a discussion on how to find methods to reduce the amount of plagiarism by students.
- LIS 2004 Introduction to Internet Research
This course provides instruction on the basic use of the Internet and the use of search engines.
Everest College Phoenix, Corinthian Colleges, Inc.
Co-instructor 09/07 – 12/07
- IS 346 Social Technologies (co-instructor: Dr. L. Olfman) (graduate course) (syllabus)
The purpose of this course is to learn the mechanics of various social technologies,including blogs, wikis, and discussion boards. The goal of the class is to understand the range of social technologies that are available, the range of capabilities they possess, how they can be used effectively, and how they can be modified to enhance their usability. The studio approach features hands-on in-class activities that enable students to share their learning immediately and to ask for assistance in understanding how specific social technologies work in practice. In addition to in-class activities some guest speakers participate in sessions to share their knowledge about building and managing social technologies.
Developed all the studio sessions of the course.
(IS 346 - Fall 2007 - Studio Sessions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13)
Set up two sites (www.mysocialtech.com & www.researchapplication.com)(*) to host class participants’ virtual workspaces where they installed and tested their Web applications.
* Sites are currently not active.
School of Information Systems and Technology, CGU
Assistant Instructor
- ESP 1 Applications of Information Technology (instructor: Dr. C. Akyel) (Turkish) (09/99 - 06/00)
This course was given as part of the online training project called EGITEN-SELCUK (a follow-up project of EGITEN) (see Projects for details). The course was a modified version of with the course given in the EGITEN project.
- ESP 1 Applications of Information Technology (instructor: Dr. C. Akyel) (Turkish) (02/99 - 10/99)
This course was given as part of the online training project called the Certificate Program for the Training of Instructors in the Informatics Field (EGITEN) (see Projects for details).
The course was designed to teach participating instructors how to use a series of computer software, including MS Windows 95/98, MS Office 97, Netscape Communicator 4.5, and various freeware e-mail, telnet, and ftp applications. The course also provided learners with information on the TCP/IP protocol and the HTML language.
Informatics Institute, METU, Ankara, Turkey
Teaching Assistant
- IS 322 Topics in Applications Software Systems (instructor: Dr. V. Deokar) (graduate course) (07/01 – 08/01 & 07/02 – 08/02)
This course was designed to introduce a set of Oracle applications (Oracle 8i and 9i) to students and teach them how to conduct various activities, such as administrative tasks in those programs.
School of Information Systems and Technology, CGU
- IS 100 Introduction to Information Technologies and Applications (instructor: Dr. N. Baykal) (09/99 – 01/00)
The aim of the course was to introduce students to the basic information technology concepts and applications and make them both computer and information literate.
Informatics Institute, METU
Courses Designed and Developed
- IS 346 Social Technologies (graduate course) (09/07 – 12/07)
School of Information Systems and Technology, CGU
- CGS 2167 Computer Applications (10/05 – 01/06)
- ISM 5026 Management Information Systems (graduate course) (09/05)
This course was designed to introduce a comprehensive overview of information systems and the management of their functions. The course mainly emphasized on introducing computer hardware, software procedures and systems, and human resource applications.
- CIS 1760 Web Site Design Methodology (12/04 – 01/05) (revision with limited re-design)
Everest College Phoenix, Corinthian Colleges, Inc.
- ESP 1 Applications of Information Technology (EGITEN-SELCUK Project) (Turkish) (09/99 – 06/00)
- ESP 1 Applications of Information Technology (EGITEN Project)(Turkish) (02/99 – 10/99)
Developed the training materials on the computer software covered as part of the course.
Informatics Institute, METU