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Aras Bozkurt is a researcher and faculty in the Department of Distance Education at Open Education Faculty, Anadolu University, Turkey. He holds MA and PhD degrees in distance education. Dr. Bozkurt conducts empirical studies on distance education, open and distance learning, and online learning through resorting to critical theories including connectivism, rhizomatic learning and heutagogy. He is also interested in emerging research paradigms including social network analysis, sentiment analysis and data mining.