Digital Transformation of Education

History has always been full of surprises, some of which resemble the challenges of the last year. While these may seem at first glance to be inconvenient interruptions to the normal flow of life, it can be easily observed in retrospect that they are also opportunities for great transformation. The Covid-19 pandemic is no exception. Covid-19 hit many sectors, including the health, economy, business, industry and education sectors. Today, hundreds of millions of students are struggling to continue their education as educational institutions struggle to make a smooth transition to online education due to inexperience and infrastructural or pedagogical deficiencies.

For Tink, Technology and Humanity Colleges, though, the online or hybrid education model was not a novel concept. Tink, as an institution, anticipated from its foundation that there would no longer be temporal and spatial limitations in education. Thus, when the pandemic forced all K-12 schools to switch to distance learning in March 2020, we restructured our infrastructure for online education quickly and effectively. In so doing, we earned the reputation of being one of the schools handling this transition most successfully. With agile decision making and resilliance, Tink was able to implement pre-set components step-by-step and resumed education online seamlessly. 

At Tink we all believe in shared responsibility and the right to access to quality education. Therefore we started airing all our lessons live on our YouTube channel for the benefit of Turkish speaking students. We reached 1,789 students outside of our school through this endeavor and were listed as the most socially responsible school in Turkey at Ozyegin University's research. This approach has also won our founder, Zeynep Dereli, the female entrepreneur of the year award. We would like to thank you for all your support.