Summary
Orçun Madran is a faculty member in Information Management at Hacettepe University with over a decade of experience bridging academia, educational technology, and open culture. He holds a PhD in Educational Technology and teaches programming, databases, and machine learning while researching open science, open licenses, and open education. Beyond academia he leads Creative Commons Türkiye, cofounded civic-minded ventures like Bisiklet Akademisi, and built distance-education infrastructure at multiple universities. His profile blends hands-on technical teaching and systems-building with advocacy for open knowledge—an uncommon mix that informs both his research and institutional leadership.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Educational Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Educational Technology at Ankara University
Bachelor of Science, Information Management, Bachelor of Science, Information Management at Hacettepe University
Master of Science, Management Information Sciences, Master of Science, Management Information Sciences at Akhmet Yassawi University
Secondary Education, Secondary Education at Yükseliş High School