CEREN OCAK

 

I am Ceren Ocak, first-year doctoral student in the Learning, Design, and Technology program at the University of Georgia (UGA). 

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I earned my B.S in Elementary Science Education from Middle East Technical University  (METU) in Turkey. I received my M.S degree in Curriculum and Instruction after attending the department of Educational Sciences in METU.  

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During my M.S studies, I worked as an educational game developer in the Game based Teacher Education System (GATES) Project launched by Turkey’s Ministry of National Education (MoNE). Soon afterwards, I gained experience in my field by working as a curriculum developer at one of the leading private schools in Turkey. Currently, I work as a graduate assistant in the Robotics Project at Research for the Advancement of Innovative Learning (RAIL) Laboratory in the UGA. 

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My research interests are embodied cognition regarding mathematics and science learning. Particularly, I search for embodied clues of computational thinking process that goes from abstraction to automation process.