Deuzem International

What Deuzem International does

DEUZEM (Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Uzaktan Eğitim Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi) is the Distance Education Application and Research Center of Dokuz Eylül University, a public university in Izmir, Turkey. Functionally, it operates as an internal university unit that designs, delivers, and supports distance education infrastructure for the institution's students, faculty, and hospital staff. Its core platform is onlineDEU, a Sakai-based Learning Management System providing course delivery, assignment management, exams, and gradebook functionality, augmented by BigBlueButton for synchronous live classes and a mobile-accessible interface. Specialized subsystems include onlineTIP for the Medical Faculty (with a question bank of approximately 405 exams and 30,000 questions) and ILITAM exam automation for the Theology Faculty, along with a Virtual Museum application and the Meta Classroom hybrid learning space project.

The center's product portfolio also includes a pandemic-era usage statistics dashboard and a podcast hosting capability. DEUZEM does not operate as a commercial entity: it has no external paying customers, no disclosed pricing, and no revenue model beyond allocation from the Dokuz Eylül University budget. Its go-to-market is purely institutional — every user segment (students, faculty, hospital staff) belongs to the parent university. The center additionally pursues R&D through competitive grants such as the TUBITAK 2237-A program and produces academic publications, guides, and conference papers on distance education methodology. It has received international recognition, including a 2nd place award from England in 2024.

Name

Deuzem International

Legal name

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Uzaktan Eğitim Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi

Website

https://deuzem.deu.edu.tr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

DEUZEM is the internal Distance Education Application and Research Center of Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir, Turkey, providing Sakai-based LMS infrastructure, live virtual classrooms, exam automation, and hybrid learning research for the university's students, faculty, and hospital staff.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Distance Education Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Learning Management Systems (LMS) & Academic Application Support (EDALAMAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Open-Source & Self-Hosted LMS (EDAFAAAL), Educational Digital Courseware & Learning Platforms (LMS-Integrated) (MPAJABAH)

Keywords

• Distance education services
• Learning management system
• Virtual classroom platform
• Exam automation system
• Educational technology research

Headquarters

HQ city

Izmir (İzmir)

HQ country

Türkiye

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. University-funded research center operations: DEUZEM operates as a research center funded by Dokuz Eylül University. Services are provided to students and faculty as part of university operations, not as a commercial revenue-generating entity.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

DEUZEM operates the onlineDEU Learning Management System (Sakai-based) and the onlineTIP medical LMS, providing distance education course delivery, live virtual classrooms via BigBlueButton, exam automation, and a Medical Faculty question bank for Dokuz Eylül University students, faculty, and hospital staff. The center also runs the Sustainable Meta Classroom hybrid learning initiative, occupational health and safety training, and in-service training programs for DEU Hospital personnel.

Product overview

DEUZEM (Dokuz Eylul University Distance Education Application and Research Center) operates as a university-level distance education management center offering a unified platform ecosystem. The core offering is the onlineDEU Learning Management System, which provides course management, live classes via BigBlueButton, assignments, exams, and content delivery. A separate onlineTIP system serves the Medical Faculty with specialized functionality. The Meta Classroom (Meta Sınıf) initiative provides sustainable hybrid learning space solutions. Additional services include question bank management, exam automation, podcast hosting, and the onlineDEU Pandemic Statistics dashboard for usage analytics.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• onlineDEU: The primary learning management system (LMS) platform developed and operated by DEUZEM for Dokuz Eylül University, enabling online course delivery, live classes, assignments, and assessments for students and instructors.
• onlineTIP

Products and services

• onlineDEU Learning Management System Sakai-based learning management system providing course management, online classes, assignments, exams, and distance education delivery for Dokuz Eylül University students and instructors.
• onlineTIP Learning Management System Specialized learning management system for the Medical Faculty, providing separate access and functionality tailored to medical education programs.
• Meta Classroom (Meta Sınıf) Hybrid Learning Model Sustainable hybrid classroom model integrating technology into physical learning spaces, providing sustainable meta-class environments for higher education.
• Medical Faculty Question Bank and Computerized Examination Service Digital question bank and computerized examination system for Medical Faculty students, comprising 405 exams and approximately 30,000 questions serving around 540 users.
• DEU Hospital In-Service Training Program In-service training program delivered for DEU Hospital medical and administrative staff, comprising 24 training sessions covering 1,800+ hospital personnel across 3 separate periods.
• Occupational Health and Safety Training Interactive Occupational Health and Safety training delivered in collaboration with ISAMER, having trained more than 7,900 people by 2018.

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Dokuz Eylül UniversitycoreOthersDEUZEM is the official Distance Education Application and Research Center of Dokuz Eylül University. The center operates as a university unit providing distance education infrastructure and services to all university faculties, schools, and institutes.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• D2L Brightspace: Commercial LMS provider with strong higher-ed penetration. Comparable as a competing vendor whose capabilities map closely to DEUZEM's onlineDEU course delivery, assessment, and analytics stack.
• Blackboard: Long-established commercial LMS widely deployed in higher education. Comparable as a competing enterprise platform whose university customers overlap with DEUZEM's functional scope.
• Instructure (Canvas LMS): Major commercial LMS provider widely adopted in higher education. Comparable as a competing platform choice for the same university distance education workloads DEUZEM services.
• Moodle: Dominant open-source LMS globally and the most common alternative to Sakai for university distance education centers. Comparable as a direct functional substitute for the LMS layer DEUZEM operates.

Regional players

• Coursera: Existing partner of DEUZEM and a major online learning platform used by universities for hybrid delivery. Comparable in the broader category of online/distance learning platforms serving higher education.
• ISTKA / Istanbul University Distance Education Center (IUZEM): Another major Turkish university distance education center. Comparable as a fellow Turkish high-er-education distance education unit operating under the same YÖK regulatory framework.

Emerging players

• Open edX: Open-source MOOC and online learning platform used by many universities for distance education. Comparable as an alternative open-source foundation for the type of online course delivery DEUZEM runs on onlineDEU.

Others

• Sakai LMS: The open-source LMS on which DEUZEM's onlineDEU platform is built. Closely comparable as the underlying technology platform and an ecosystem reference for self-hosted higher-ed LMS deployments.

Direct peers

• Atatürk University Open and Distance Education Application and Research Center (ATAUZEM): Turkish university distance education center with very similar institutional structure, mission, and operating model to DEUZEM. Directly comparable as a peer Turkish YÖK-affiliated remote learning center.
• Anadolu University Open Education Faculty (AUZEF): Turkey's largest distance education provider, operating as a university-affiliated open education faculty. Most directly comparable to DEUZEM as a state-university distance education operation delivering credit-bearing online programs at scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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