About Us

Office for Learning and Teaching Enhancement (OLTE) at Özyeğin University champions a transformative education approach that empowers every learner in Özyeğin University to become a change agent. In partnership with faculty and administrative units, OLTE not only designs and develops interactive course materials and assessment tools, but also delivers some of the mandatory foundational courses— Introduction to University Life, Personal Development, Responsible Citizenship- under the Transformative Education Program. Through this integrated model, we blend critical reflection, social responsibility, and cutting-edge technology to foster deep, measurable, and sustainable learning outcomes.

Vision and Mission

Our Vision

Empowering students to drive positive personal and social change by embedding critical thinking, agency, and civic engagement into every learning experience

Leading as a beacon of inclusive, sustainable, and data-informed transformative education at international academic standards

Cultivating vibrant learning ecosystems where technology, pedagogy, and learning communities coalesce to spark innovation and collaboration

Our Mission

Co-designing and delivering need-driven courses and workshops that infuse transformative education principles—reflection, dialogue, action—across the curriculum

Providing expert consultancy on inclusive teaching strategies, assessment for learning, and development of interactive, tech-enabled materials

Ensuring seamless access to and support for technical infrastructures—campus studios, online platforms, LMS—to enable adaptive and engaging learning journeys

Administering the Transformative Education Program —including core mandatory courses like “Introduction to University Life”, “Personal Development”, “Responsible Citizenship”—to guarantee that every graduate emerges equipped for responsible global citizenship.

OLTE TEAM

Our Professional Team

SERVICES

Course Design

(In each of the items below, the process will be carried out together with the faculty members.)

Working on the improvement of learning-teaching processes.

Determination of appropriate teaching strategies, methods and techniques.

Designing a course from scratch.

Determination of appropriate, need-based measurement and evaluation methods.

Redesigning an existing course.

Providing consultancy on the preparation of interactive course materials.

Reviewing syllabi and CDF (Course Description Form).

Providing consultancy on the design and shootings of video lectures.

Designing appropriate, need-based techno-pedagogical processes and resources.

Improving course design and development processes by using different plugins and activities on LMS.

Consultancy for Faculties/Schools

Finding solutions to potential cases and problems that may arise in learning-teaching processes.

Establishment of learning communities for teaching staff to interact with each other and with OLTE instructional design consultants.

Organizing workshops and training programs in response to the needs and requests of faculty members.

Structuring the design and materials for courses in accordance with international quality standards.

Conducting scientific research, development and application studies by carrying out joint projects in cooperation with the faculty members.

Sharing best practices applied in learning-teaching processes at our university.

Individualized Academic Consultancy for Students

Activities focused on developing self-regulation skills (such as time management and determining strategies aligned with academic goals) and their monitoring to study effectively and establish a roadmap according to the set objectives.

Activities aimed at sharing technologies that will enhance the learning and research experiences of ÖzÜ students.

Activities aimed at enhancing campus life and developing fundamental academic skills of ÖzÜ students.

Activities targeting factors that could potentially hinder effective studying and reaching academic goals (e.g., providing linguistic support and establishing a roadmap tailored to the student's goals).

Activities aimed at enabling students to utilise their social contexts for learning purposes and personal development.

Consultancy for Administrative Units

Providing consultancy on message design and instructional design in order to improve the educational content designed by different units.

Providing consultancy on video development requests from different units for video shootings, content design, message design and instructional design.

Instructional Environments

Providing consultancy on the active use of the studios on campus.

Following and promoting current technologies used in learning-teaching processes.

Presenting special solutions for the home environment (such as iPad+pen) according to the needs of the faculty members.

Technical Support

Preparation of written and visual guides on the use of software and tools used in learning-teaching processes.

Providing one on one technical support to faculty members and students on the use of software and tools they use in the learning-teaching process (OLTE SC).

Orientation to new faculty members about the software and tools they will use in the learning-teaching process.