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teaching

Teaching, facilitation, and mentoring.

courses

Teaching experience

  1. Basic Design

    2025

    Co-instructor, Koç University, Dept. of Media and Visual Arts

    Designed the curriculum and co-instructed an undergraduate core course for students to understand and experiment with basic design principles.

  2. Thinking by Body and Integrated Senses

    2024-2025

    Co-instructor, Koç University, Dept. of Media and Visual Arts

    Designed the curriculum and co-instructed an undergraduate core course encouraging creative thinking through bodily awareness and integrated senses.

  3. Design Thinking for Disruptive Innovation

    2020-2024

    Co-instructor, Koç University MBA Program

    Co-instructed lectures and facilitated hands-on graduate-level design thinking activities.

  4. Design Thinking

    2020-2023

    Co-instructor, Koç University, Dept. of Media and Visual Arts

    Co-instructed lectures and facilitated an undergraduate course applying hands-on design thinking methods.

  5. Interdisciplinary Research Methods

    2024

    Teaching Assistant, Koç University Graduate School of Social Sciences

    Developed lecture content and assisted graduate teaching on advanced research thinking and methods from various disciplinary perspectives.

executive

Executive education

  1. Lecturer

    2020-2024

    Design Thinking for Executive Education

    Taught and facilitated design thinking courses for more than 400 professionals from Turkey's top 500 industrial enterprises.

  2. Coordinator

    2022-2024

    Design Thinking for Executive Education

    Managed program structure, participant coordination and evaluation, and instructor communication for executive-level design thinking training.

mentoring

Mentoring

  • Graduate mentoring for thesis proposal preparation and research on AI tools in undergraduate creative processes.
  • Undergraduate mentoring on Kuar Design Lab YouTube channel development, Google ads, and analytics.
  • High school mentoring for post-production of the Design Talks video series.

Contact

Interested in teaching, workshops, or facilitation?

For direct contact, email goksenintan@gmail.com or btan20@ku.edu.tr.