Canan Ece Türkmen
Learning Sciences PhD Candidate | Learning Research Lead

After analyzing chemistry curricula and exploring teacher's perspectives on education for sustainability for her master's thesis, she developed interest in rural education. For her doctoral dissertation, she is collaborating with Rural Schools Transformation Network and studies teacher learning, teacher professional development, distributed learning communities. She is working towards establishing research-practice partnerships between civil society and academia, and framing these collaborative efforts as a design-based implementation research.

She values the role of scholarly communities of practice, and enjoys taking part in such discourses. As an elected co-chair of the student committee (ILSSA) in International Society of the Learning Sciences, and a member of conference committee of Learning Sciences Graduate Student Conference, she contributes opening-up spaces for graduate students to connect and build interdisciplinary collaborations, and to progress in their academic and professional careers through peer support. She is also a observing TIDE group as a visitor and making connections with like-minded researchers in Barcelona.

Apart from her academic activities, she is working as a learning research lead at Welocalize and is responsible from innovating existing upskilling and reskilling practices within the organization through scaleable online learning solutions. She is responsible from designing simulations with complex xAPI infrastructure to quantify learner performance. She follows agile principles and methodology in managing the production and delivery of wide range of multimedia (infographics, animations, videos, email journeys, vILT sessions etc.) for identified performance gaps. She is part of client-facing cross-functional teams addressing external workforce development needs of big-tech companies* in obtaining AI training data services.

* Client names are not disclosed due to non-disclosure agreements.