Czerkawski, Betul C | SLAT | Second Language Acquisition and Teaching

bcozkan@arizona.edu

Phone

(520) 471-8736

Office

University of Arizona South

Personal Site

https://profiles.arizona.edu/person/bcozkan

Czerkawski, Betul C

Professor

Home Department: Educational Technology

SLAT Area of Specialization: Instructional Dimensions of L2 Learning

Betül Czerkawski is a professor of instructional design and technology, with a specialization in digital humanities. She is also a faculty member at the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at UA. Dr. Czerkawski has taught and researched at the higher education level in a variety of roles, as a Professor, Program Director, Fulbright Grant Manager, Fulbright Specialist, Fulbright Scholar, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Distance Education Mentor, Course Designer and Journal Editor for more than two decades. Her research interests include learning design, foreign language instruction and development of online learning experiences with the use of emerging technologies. She has presented and published over 100 peer-reviewed papers on these subjects.

Betül holds a MA and Ph.D. in Instructional Design and Development, BA in Italian Language and Literature and BA in Russian and Slavic Studies. She completed her post-doctoral study in Iowa State University where she also served as a project manager for a Fulbright Grant.

Awards

Fulbright Scholar (Ukraine)
- U.S. Department of State, Fall 2018
Fulbright Specialist (Kosovo)
- U.S. Department of State, Fall 2016

Area of Specialization

Instructional dimensions of L2 learning

Currently Teaching

INFO 516 – Introduction to Human Computer Interaction

The field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) encompasses the design, implementation, and evaluation of interactive computing systems. This course will provide a survey of HCI theory and practice. The course will address the presentation of information and the design of interaction from a human-centered perspective, looking at relevant perceptive, cognitive, and social factors influencing in the design process. It will motivate practical design guidelines for information presentation through Gestalt theory and studies of consistency, memory, and interpretation. Technological concerns will be examined that include interaction styles, devices, constraints, affordances, and metaphors. Theories, principles and design guidelines will be surveyed for both classical and emerging interaction paradigms, with case studies from practical application scenarios. As a central theme, the course will promote the processes of usability engineering, introducing the concepts of participatory design, requirements analysis, rapid prototyping, iterative development, and user evaluation. Both quantitative and qualitative evaluation strategies will be discussed. This course is co-convened: Upper-level undergraduates and graduate students are encouraged to enroll. Graduate students will be expected to complete more substantial projects and will be given more in-depth reading assignments.

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