Online Teaching at Koç University:

Online Teaching During COVID-19 data is given below. All data is collected from Colleges*. (March 30 – April 3)

599 of total 703 courses were conducted synchronously (live) through the period written above.

545 of total 703 courses were conducted by file sharing through Blackboard online system through the period written above.

  • Course materials are offered via Learning Management System, Blackboard. On week days ~4500-5500 unique users/day log into the system.

Courses:

 

Format
Course #
Course %
Asynchronous (with pre-recorded video lessons) ~100 14
Synchronous (live) or Synchronous + Asynchronous ~600 86
Total  ~700 100

Online Teaching During COVID-19:Data Collected from Colleges* (March 30 – April 3)

College or Institute
# of Courses
Which Format of Online Teaching?
Where do You Share Your Digital Course Materials?
Do You Use Panopto Lecture Capturing?
Which Platform for Synchronous (Live) Classes?
Synchronous (Live)
Asynchronous
Blackboard
F-
Drive
Other
Panopto
Panopto
Teams
Zoom
Others
None
Digital Course Material Sharing
Previously Recorded Video Sharing
CASE
121 108 110 99 104 3 28 34 N/A 29 49 11 N/A
CE**
73 56 4 11 14 45
CS
76 61 32 56 71 1 9 30 3 17 20 13 13
CSSH
156 124 63 70 131 10 61 40 2 37 82 40 15
ELC
89 89 87 77 77 N/A 84  N/A N/A 28 60 4 N/A
GSB
31 31 18 8 16 1 18 4 2 20 9 N/A N/A
GSHS
28 25 N/A 2 13 N/A 5 N/A 1 11 7 6 N/A
GSSSH
62 52 19 7 24 N/A 5 3 N/A 8 16 N/A N/A
LAW
30 11 15 18 29 2 6 16 2 5 6 1 1
NURSING
37 25 5 19 24 N/A 24 16 3 16 14 4 N/A
TOTAL
703 599 349 356 545 21 240 143 24 185 308 79 29

 

*Data was collected from the academic coordinators of each college/institute.

**CE  collected the data through its own question set. CE data included GSSE data.

Health Service

Below is the statistics of patients treated at Koç University Hospital between the dates March, 11 – June 8, 2020.

 

NUMBER OF PATIENTS TREATED AT THE POLYCLINICS NUMBER OF PATIENTS TREATED AT THE POLYCLINICS NUMBER OF PATIENTS RECOVERED NUMBER OF PATIENTS TREATED AT THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
1873 443 408 70

Koç University Research Activities for COVID-19.

More than 42 projects are ongoing under Diagnosis / Detection, Drug Development, Treatment / Tracking, Evaluation / Support of COVID-19.

Please click here (KURIOUS article) to view the research conducted at Koç University that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19.

Informative Meetings, Webinars

Online Trainings on Online Education

  • A total number of 281 webinars held for Blackboard, Panopto and Zoom systems in cooperation of Information Technologies Directorate and Office of Teaching and Learning. 281 people attanded these webinars. (these numbers are updated as of April 24, 2020.)

Online Meetings:

  • The number* of online meetings held in Koç University are displayed in the graph given below:*1000+ online meetings/day (academic and administrative)

 

Koç University Recruitment Activities during COVID-19

Student Club Activities:

International Relations Club:

Under the concept “InsideR Online: Short Chats”:

*Seminar with Elif Ülgen entitled: “Türkiye ve Güney Afrika Cumhuriyeti’nin Pandemi Direnişi” on April 24, 2020.

*Seminar with Burak Akçapar entitled “Pandemi Sonrası Uluslararası İlişkiler” on May, 1st.

Ekopolitik Club

Under the concept “Wise Talks”:

A seminer with Professor Selva Demiralp entitled: “Covid-19 Sonrası Dünya Ekonomisi” on April, 27th.

Other:

A number of articles are published on KOÇKAM’s (The Center for Gender Studies at Koc University) blog related to COVID-19 period.

KOÇKAM’s blog can be visited through this link.

Publications:

Suna Kıraç Library gave access to certain databases related to COVID-19. The website here contains interdisciplinary and medicine focused resources from publishers and vendors. Content is provided freely during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Suna Kıraç Library also published a specific resourse site for library services for online education.

Other Activities:

Koç University Office of General Secretary conducted a series of precautionary activities during the pandemic.