Open Education > Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

• Acquiring New Textbooks
• Acquiring VCD and DVDs of Courses Broadcast on TV
• Note about the Law on Right of Access to Information
• Period of study
• Exemption
• Interuniversity/Interdepartmental Transfer
• External Transfer
• Bachelor’s Degree Completion Program
• Second University
• Internship and Practical Courses
• Procedures for a Pass
• Disciplinary Procedures
• Enrollment Renewal Procedures
• What If Students Did Not Receive Examination Entrance Card
• Questions of Previous Years
• Regions and Districts of Examination Centers in Istanbul
• Examinations
• Documents Required for Entering Examinations
• Examinations of Arrested and Convicted Students
• Examination Rules
• Announcement of Examination Results
• Assessment of Examinations, Criteria for Passing the Class

Acquiring New Textbooks

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Students who want to buy new textbooks should pay the cost of books

• 14 TRY for one-volume books
• 10 TRY for two-volume book (for each volume)

to the following account of Circulating Capital Management of Anadolu University

Ziraat Bankasi, Eskişehir
Account no: 40003690 – 5001

and send a letter indicating the books they want, together with the original copy of the bank receipt, to the following address:

Anadolu Üniversitesi Açıköğretim Fakültesi Kitap Koordinasyon Birimi 26470 ESKİŞEHİR

Upon the receipt of the letter, the books will be posted to their address collect on delivery.

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Students may order the VCD and DVDs of the courses broadcast on TV

• from the following address: Anadolu Üniversitesi Açıköğretim Fakültesi Yunusemre Kampusu 26470 Tepebaşı Eskişehir
• by fax or telephone: 0 222 320 10 40, or
• through e-mail to be sent by clicking here

Students should get in touch with Open Education Faculty through one of the abovementioned means to indicate which course or courses they demand. After the Faculty communicates the pricelist of VCD or DVDs to the demander, he/she should send

• a copy of the bank receipt indicating that the cost of demanded materials are paid to the following account of Circulating Capital Management of Anadolu University
• Ziraat Bankasi, Eskişehir
  Account no: 40003690 – 5001
• the address (for natural persons)
  relevant tax office, tax number and address (for legal persons)

to the following address:

Anadolu Üniversitesi Açıköğretim Fakültesi TV Yapım Merkezi Yunusemre Kampusu 26470 Eskişehir
The Faculty will post VCD or DVDs collect on delivery. VAT is not included in the prices of VCD and DVDs.

Note about the Law on Right of Access to Information

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Students enrolled in Open Education Faculty, Faculty of Business Administration and Faculty of Economics should make their applications concerning the Law on Right of Access to Information to Central Administration of Open Education Faculty or Open Education bureaus in provinces, to ensure that their application is handled in due time.

Questions in midterm, final and make-up examinations of Business Administration and Economics programs are subject to copyright protection in accordance with Law no. 5846. Our University owns the copyrights of these questions. The questions are pooled in a test bank and used for examinations. In accordance with Article 24 of the Law on Right of Access to Information, the University, copyright owner of questions, will not handle the applications about the questions.

Examinees are not allowed to note down the options they select in an examination, for the sake of security. The violation of this rule is regarded as cheating. Accordingly, students should not ask for the answer key. Moreover, answer key is an inseparable part of questions that are collected by paying copyrights. Therefore, applications concerning the answer key will not be handled as well.

Because answer sheets are assessed in data processing environments and it is approved by judiciary authorities that there is no error margin in these assessments, students’ applications concerning answer sheets will not be handled. Answer sheets are only presented to judiciary authorities if required in a court case.

Furthermore, students cannot object to their grades. The explanation concerning this point is included in examination guides. Thus, applications concerning the re-assessment of answer sheets will not be taken into consideration.

As a result, we announce that applications in accordance with Law no. 4982 on Right of Access to Information, concerning question booklets, answer keys and answer sheets will not be taken into consideration.

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Article 44 of Law no. 2547 reads as follows: “The duration of study is not limited to these periods for students enrolled in Open Education Faculty unless they enjoy student rights”. Thus, the students enrolled in Faculties of Business Administration and Economics, and bachelor’s degree programs in Open Education Faculty may enjoy student rights for seven years, and the students enrolled in associate programs of Open Education Faculty may enjoy for four years.

After the end of these periods, students are allowed to continue their education by taking examinations provided that they renew their enrollment; however, they cannot benefit from student rights.

Nevertheless, students enrolled in Associate Programs of Vocational Education, which are launched on the basis of protocols with other institutions (Justice, Air Force, Naval Forces, Gendarmerie, Land Forces and Police Forces), continue the program for four years provided that they fulfill their legal obligations. Students who do not succeed at the end of this period are dismissed from the faculty.

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Students who are enrolled in a faculty offering open education have to take all the courses entailed by their class, department and program. These students are not exempt from, in any case, any courses they took and succeeded during their previous higher education (including the faculties within Distance Education System).

Students who take Student Selection Examination and are placed to a university when studying in a faculty offering open education can enroll in the first year of the department and program, provided that they cancel their previous enrollment. These students are not exempt from, in any case, the courses they took and succeeded previously.

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Students who are enrolled in a faculty offering open education cannot, for any reason whatsoever, transfer to another faculty, department or program.
These students cannot transfer from departments and programs within open education system to formal higher education.

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Students who graduate from two-year associate programs of Open Education Faculty are eligible for taking external transfer exam held by Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) and transfer to formal higher education, in accordance with the “Regulation on the Transfer of Graduates of Vocational High School and Open Education Associate Programs to Undergraduate Education”.

Final-year students and graduates may apply for these exams held by Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) in due time.

Moreover, final-year students and graduates of Vocational High School and Open Education Associate Programs may enroll, through external transfer, in the Faculties of Business Administration and Economics offering open education, provided that they meet the conditions announced by the University.

Application and enrollment conditions are announced every year. Students who meet these conditions get enrolled directly in the third year or in a preparation program for undergraduate education in the Faculties of Business Administration and Economics.

Application and enrollment dates for the academic year 2006-2007 are as follows:

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Students who have not received their examination entrance card one week before the examination, at the latest, should log in to http://aofburo.anadolu.edu.tr with their national ID number and password, and print out their entrance card in PDF format.

In addition, students can also receive their entrance card from the Bureaus of Open Education Faculty.

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Students who graduate from two-year associate programs of Open Education Faculty are eligible for taking external transfer exam held by Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) and transfer to formal higher education, in accordance with the “Regulation on the Transfer of Graduates of Vocational High School and Open Education Associate Programs to Undergraduate Education”.

Final-year students and graduates may apply for these exams held by Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) in due time.

Moreover, final-year students and graduates of Vocational High School and Open Education Associate Programs may enroll, through external transfer, in the Faculties of Business Administration and Economics offering open education, provided that they meet the conditions announced by the University.

Application and enrollment conditions are announced every year. Students who meet these conditions get enrolled directly in the third year or in a preparation program for undergraduate education in the Faculties of Business Administration and Economics.

Application and enrollment dates for the academic year 2006-2007 are as follows:

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People who succeeded in the first- and second-year courses of faculties or vocational high schools offering undergraduate degrees and left the university achieving an associate degree are entitled to apply for the continuation of their education, according to the quotas and conditions announced by the University every year. Provided that their application is accepted, they can get enrolled in the third year of programs.

Application and enrollment dates for the academic year 2006-2007 are as follows:

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Students who are enrolled in any formal education program of a university or who graduated from such a program can get enrolled in bachelor’s or associate degree programs of Open Education, Business Administration and Economics Faculties, which offer distance education, without need to take Students Selection Exam again, provided that they meet required conditions.

Students enrolled in any formal Vocational High School in higher education or graduates of these schools may apply to the first year of the following programs of Open Education Faculty at Anadolu University (Candidates cannot apply for the programs they graduated from or are studying);

• Home Management,
• Social Sciences,
• Public Relations,
• Local Governments,
• Foreign Trade,
• Accounting,
• Tourism and Hotel Management,
• Banking and Insurance,
• Office Management and Secretarial Training,
• Management of Health Institutions,
• Theology,
• Laboratory Assistants and Veterinary Laboratory Services,
• Agriculture,
• Retailing and Store Management.

Students enrolled in any formal undergraduate program in higher education or graduates of these programs may apply to the first year of (Candidates cannot apply for the programs they graduated from or are studying)

• One of the following departments of Faculty of Economics at Anadolu University
  • Economics,
  • Finance,
  • Public Administration,
  • Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
• Department of Business Administration in the Faculty of Business Administration or
• Associate programs in Open Education Faculty.

Application and enrollment dates for the academic year 2006-2007 are as follows:

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Except for the ones studying in Tourism and Hotel Management, Pre-school Teaching and English Language Teaching programs of Open Education Faculty, students are not obliged to have internship or practical training.

Typing Skills in the second year of the Program in Office Management and Secretarial Training is a practical course which does not require obligatory attendance whereas School Experience (observation) in the second year and Teaching Practice and School Experience (internship) in the fourth year of the Program in English Language Teaching, and Practices in Preschool Teaching in the third year and Teaching Practice in the fourth year of the Program in Preschool Teaching are the courses which require obligatory attendance of students.

The period of internship for students enrolled in Tourism and Hotel Management 90 days. Students have to comply with the conditions of internship that the Deanship introduces. When the Deanship assigns an internship for a student, he/she must do the internship on the date and location determined by the Deanship unless he/she has a valid excuse.

Students may arrange an internship in an enterprise holding a certificate of tourism provided that they receive the approval of Deanship. Internships in enterprises which do not have a certificate of tourism are not valid. Students are responsible for submitting to the Deanship a document indicating that they have done their internship. Students who do not do internship cannot graduate from this program.

Information about the internship procedures will be sent later.

Typing Skills offered to second-year students in Office Management and Secretarial Training is a practical course whose aim is to teach students touch typing. The details concerning this course and its examinations will be sent to students who take the course.

In accordance with Article 5 of the Regulation on Teaching and Examinations in the Faculties within Distance Education System at Anadolu University, students must have internships and take practical courses in the faculties and departments where these components are obligatory.

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Acquiring a pass requires different procedures in every province in accordance with the relevant legislation of the municipality. The procedures for acquiring a pass will be announced by our bureaus in provinces.

The whole fee collected from students for pass procedures are paid to municipalities.

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The disciplinary procedures and rules in Open Education Faculty do not differ from those applied in the faculties offering formal education.

Disciplinary proceedings will be initiated and the provisions of Regulation on Students Discipline will be implemented for students who engage in behaviors which do not comply with student status and who interrupt teaching and learning processes in Bureaus, Academic Counseling Centers and examinations, and during enrollment and enrollment renewal procedures.

Our students should not forget that they are students in the University and other academic environments as well as in Open Education Bureaus.

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Students who are enrolled in faculties offering open education can take midterm, final and make-up exams and enjoy student rights throughout the academic year provided that they renew their enrollment. In other words, students who do not have their enrollment renewed in due time cannot take exams and enjoy other student rights (e.g. certificate of student status, pass, etc.) in the academic year for which they did not renew their enrollment.

Students enjoy all students rights if they have their enrollment renewed. However, students who have their enrollment renewed at the end of their normal period of study can continue their education, but cannot enjoy any student rights (e.g. student ID card, certificate of student status, pass, etc.).

Students who do not have their enrollment renewed in subsequent two years, whatever their class is, will be dismissed from the Faculty. These students are not eligible for renewing their enrollment in following academic years, and have to start their education from the first year and take all the courses even if they are placed in Open Education Faculty after taking the Student Selection Exam.

Students who do not have their enrollment renewed in an academic year due to a valid excuse are allowed to renew their enrollment in the following year and continue their education. However, as mentioned above, provided that they do not have it renewed in subsequent two years, they will be dismissed from the Faculty.

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Students who have not received their examination entrance card one week before the examination, at the latest, should log in to http://aofburo.anadolu.edu.tr with their national ID number and password, and print out their entrance card in PDF format.

In addition, students can also receive their entrance card from the Bureaus of Open Education Faculty.

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It is heard that some private institutions duplicate and sell the question booklets which were used in previous open education exams.

The questions in these booklets are in the Internet-based test bank of Open Education Faculty.

Do not trust in these attempts to provide unfair gain.

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