Key details
Dr Suzan Koseoglu
Lecturer in Higher Education Teaching and Learning
Suzan is a Lecturer in Higher Education Teaching and Learning at the University of Greenwich. She teaches postgraduate level courses on higher education pedagogy for academic staff and postgraduate students and co-leads pedagogic research in ALE.
Prior to working at Greenwich, Suzan had a similar role at Goldsmiths, University of London, co-leading the Postgraduate Teaching and Learning Programme. She also taught completely online classes on technology and ethics, youth’s use of social media, and online learning communities at the University of Minnesota, where she also earned her doctorate degree in Learning Technologies, Curriculum and Instruction.
Her research and writing focuses on feminist pedagogy, critical pedagogy and open education. Her works include Critical digital pedagogy in Higher Education (published by Athabasca University Press), 30 Years of Gender Inequality and Implications on Curriculum Design in Open and Distance Learning (published by JIME) and Access as Pedagogy: A Case for Embracing Feminist Pedagogy in Open and Distance Learning (published by AJDE). A recent manuscript Rhizomatic Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis is currently in press for an edited book on Rhizomatic Learning.
Suzan’s upbringing in Turkey, her experiences in traditional K-12 and Higher Education in particular, very much shaped her understanding of education as a complex political, social and economic system. She is deeply concerned with how learners are enculturated into a system of standardisation, authority and hierarchy from a young age through formal education. She sees the purpose of education as the cultivation of the whole person, helping people of all ages find beauty and meaning in the social and physical world and claim their citizenship – her most recent research and writing speaks to that.
Awards
2019 - awarded a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (Advanced HE), UK.
Fellowships are awarded to those who “are able to provide evidence of broadly based effectiveness in "substantive teaching and supporting learning roles and can demonstrate a broad understanding of effective approaches to learning and teaching support as a key contribution to high quality student learning” (https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/individuals/fellowship#section-3).
2018 - National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) selected the following article as Number 1 in the Top 10 open Access journal articles for 2018: Bozkurt, A., Koseoglu, S., & Singh, L. (2019). An analysis of peer reviewed publications on openness in education in half a century: Trends and patterns in the open hemisphere. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 35(4), 78-97.
2015 - Journal of Geography Award from the National Council for Geographic Education as the Best Article for Program Development for 2015 (for Doering, A., Koseoglu, S., Scharber, C., Lanegran, D., & Miller, C. (2014). Technology integration in K-12 geography education using TPACK as a theoretical model. Journal of Geography, 113(6), 223-237.)
2013 - I was nominated by the Learning Technologies Program Area for the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of Minnesota Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
Recognition
Asian Journal of Distance Education (editorial board member)
E-learning magazine (Associate Editor)
University Alliance T&L Student Voice Group (member)
Research / Scholarly interests
Open education, online education, critical pedagogy, learning theories and self-reflective pedagogic practice
Media activity
Rowell, C., & Koseoglu., S. (March, 2023). Critical Digital Pedagogy Book Launch. Organized by University of the Arts London.
Recent publications
Koseoglu, S., Veletsianos, G., & Rowell, C. (Eds). (2023). Critical digital pedagogy in Higher Education. Athabasca University Press.
Koseoglu, S. & Veletsianos, G. (2021). Feminist critical digital pedagogy. EdTech Books.
Koseoglu, S., Ozturk, T., Ucar, H., Karahan, E., & Bozkurt, A. (2020). 30 years of gender inequality: Implications on curriculum design in open and distance learning. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1). http://doi.org/10.5334/jime.553
Koseoglu, S., & Bozkurt, A. (in press). Rhizomatic learning in Higher Education. In Myint Swe Khine (Ed.) Rhizomatic Learning: Poststructural Thinking to Nomadic Pedagogy.
Presentations
Koseoglu, S., Ye, I., Yung, R., & Mohamed., A. H. (2023). Co-Construction in Higher Education. SHIFT Conference, University of Greenwich.
Koseoglu, S., & Kimmons., R. (May, 2022). An Innovative Approach to Academic Publishing: Open Books. OTESSA (Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association), Canada.
Koseoglu, S., & Meri, S. (2020). Race and Diversity: Promise vs Reality [Panel]. Open Education,
Global Collaboration, Strategies, & Policies in Open Education, OE GLOBAL 2020.