It is not surprising to encounter graduates of Istanbul Aydın University, which has set forth with the slogan “Towards a Bright Future,” in the brightest places of professional life. Istanbul Aydın University is an urban and campus university located in the center of Istanbul, with its experienced academic staff that has gained a reputation for its scientific studies in our country and worldwide.
The first thing that will catch your attention when you step onto the campus is its vitality. Istanbul Aydın University, where you can experience activity at every hour of the day, is dominated by constant energy and mobility.
The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is a credit system developed by the European Council in 1989 as part of the Erasmus program (now the lifelong learning program) to increase international transparency in higher education and facilitate the recognition of students’ courses studied abroad by student mobility programs in their own countries. This system was developed as part of a student-centered teaching and learning approach based on workload and learning outcomes that support the objectives of the Bologna Process, and it is a system widely accepted by European countries. At the same time, ECTS provides a systematic approach that contributes to the development of the quality of higher education programs and their quality assurance by being designed, implemented, monitored, and improved in an easily understandable structure based on the workload of training programs and course content.
Istanbul Aydın University (IAU), as one of the national and international strategic objectives to be achieved, has adopted the use of the ECTS system as a reference and transparency tool to design and define study programs and their educational components and learning activities, based on educational objectives and learning outcomes, in relation and compliance with the requirements of the Turkish Qualifications Framework level and its study areas in higher education, and uses its features, such as credit allocation based on student workload compared to learning, teaching, assessment, and grading methods, to design, implement, review, improve, and ensure quality in educational and training processes.
For this main purpose, IAU-ETIS has been designed and put into service as an integral part of the university’s campus automation system to enable active and effective participation of all executive and academic staff of the institution in the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the system. On the other hand, IAU-ETIS includes all the functionalities of the ECTS Information Package and provides national, foreign, exchange, and candidate students, higher education institutions, employers, and other stakeholders with detailed and easily traceable information about the institution, degree programs at all levels of education, as well as other useful information such as career and education opportunities, social and cultural environment, leisure and sports activities, and much more they may require for any university-related needs and concerns.
