Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yunus Eryaman

Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yunus Eryaman is a professor of education at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. He is specialized on educational policy, philosophy of education, curriculum theory and research, critical pedagogy, and progressive education.

Eryaman is currently the president of the International Association of Educators and the president of the World Education Research Association. He has served as associate dean in the Faculty of Education and as Interim Chancellor (General Secretary) at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University.He is a DAAD-TUBITAK professor at the Institute for International Comparative and Intercultural Education (University of Hamburg) since 2014. He serves as a council member in the European Educational Research Association^[6] and president of the Turkish Educational Research Association.

Title of Speech: “Progressive Impulse in Education: Towards Phronetic Education Sciences”

Dr. Rustam Shadiev

Dr. Rustam Shadiev is a professor at the School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, China and a distinguished professor of Jiangsu province, China. He is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Senior Member of IEEE. Dr. Rustam Shadiev was selected as top top mostly cited scholar in China in 2020. His research interest includes advanced learning technologies to support language learning and cross-cultural education.

Title of Speech:“Supporting cross-cultural learning with advanced educational technologies”

Prof. Dr. Ramesh Sharma

Prof. Dr. Ramesh Sharma teaches Instructional Design at Ambedkar University Delhi, India. He is an expert in open and distance and technology mediated learning and has served as a visiting Professor at Universidade do Estado da Bahia, UNEB, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, visiting Professor at University of Fiji, Fiji, Commonwealth of Learning as Director of the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, New Delhi,   Regional Director of Indira Gandhi National Open University, India and Director of Distance Education at University of Guyana, Guyana, South America. He had been a member of Advisory Group on Human Resources Development for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

He is editing Asian Journal of Distance Education since 2003 and has been associated with several other peer reviewed journals including SSCI / SCOPUS Journals as Reviewer, Editor and Editorial Advisory Board member in the field of Open and Distance Learning. An author/editor of several books and research papers on educational technology, educational multimedia and eLearning.

Title of Speech:“Education in normal, new normal, and next normal: Observations from the past, insights from the present and projections for the future.”

Prof. Dr. Semra Mirici

Prof. Dr. Semra Mirici is a full time professor at Gazi University Gazi Faculty of Education, Department of Biology Education in Ankara, Turkey. She is also the board member of the World Council for Curriculum and Instruction (WCCI) Turkish Chapter. She has been lecturing at different universities in Turkey such as Kirikkale University, Akdeniz University and Gazi University for about 30 years. She has had administrative positions such as the Vice Dean, the Chair Department, and the Coordinator of Teacher Training Programs. She has published several articles in national and international academic journals. She has coordinated or participated in the steering committees of several national and international science projects. Her fields of interests are Biology Education, Plant Biotechnology, and STEM Education.

Title of Speech: “21st Century skılls and science education.”

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Güçlü Şekercioğlu

Title of Speech: “Bilimsel araştırmalarda doğru bilinen yanlışlar, söylenceler.”