Gulsun KurubacakGulsun Kurubacak is a professor in Distance Education at the College of Open Education of Anadolu University. Dr. Kurubacak undertook graduate studies at Anadolu University, Turkey (MA. Educational Technology) and the University of Cincinnati, USA (E.D. Curriculum & Instruction), and also has worked a post-doctoral fellow at the College of Education at New Mexico State University, USA (2001-2002). Dr. Kurubacak earned her B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the College of Informatics Technologies and Engineering of Hoca Ahmet Yesevi International Turk-Kazakhstani University in the year 2012-2013. Also, she is currently a graduate student in the Department of Computer and Instructional Technologies of Anadolu University. Dr. Kurubacak has thirty years of experience in focusing on the egalitarian and ecological aspects of open and distance education; finding new answers, viewpoints and explanations to online communication problems through critical pedagogy; and improving learner critical and creative thinking skills through project-based online learning, universal design principles and new communication technologies. She continues to manage and provide pedagogical support for distance learning. Read More Read Less