Merve Basdogan
Instructional Designer
As a scholar who studies at the intersection of technology, design, education, and psychology, Dr. Basdogan’s academic scholarship focuses on the theories about what technology is, methods for studying technology, and discussions about how technology changes fields such as learning, culture, psychology, and politics.  Prior to coming to Indiana University, Merve worked as an education coordinator in the Online Information Technologies Certificate Program (ITCP) which was carried out with the collaboration of Continuing Education Center and Computer Engineering Department at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. In this position, self-regulated learning and Community of Inquiry were influential frameworks that shaped Merve's instructional design practices. 
In her doctoral dissertation, Dr. Basdogan discussed “technological mediations” and their impacts on different learning and teaching modalities such as online, open, and distance learning from a post-phenomenological perspective. Her research output was a framework evaluating the nature of “technology-based learning spaces” in terms of agents, actors, culture, rules, time, ethics, and level of operation. Merve is a certified Quality Matters (QM) Higher Education peer reviewer. As an online instructional designer at IU School of Public Health, Office of Online Education; she develops, evaluates, and improves online courses based on the QM standards. In addition, creating animations and short instructional videos to support student engagement are among her design activities. 
Currently, Dr. Basdogan is a postdoctoral research associate at Indiana University in the Learning Space and Mosaic Initiative. In this position, her research goals are directed toward understanding technology-based innovative learning environments and emerging technologies to promote active, flexible, collaborative, and personalized learning in fully online, physical, and hybrid modalities.