New media, the internet in particular, could revitalize the processes of teaching and learning, when coupled with innovative pedagogical thinking. It reinforces education, through broadening both the scale and scope of content delivery, and abolishes the risk of inequity between people and countries in access to education and knowledge through distributed technologies and finally it promotes diversity of cultures and languages in the best possible way on the global market of education. New media can enrich educational preferences on a sustainable and cost-effective basis.

Developing information technologies have brought traditional educational settings to a threshold where new media runs separately but also in an integrated whole. One of these units that make that whole is virtual environments prepared for students from different cultures and backgrounds to support an integrated learning and teaching setting and provide a best practice platform for sharing educational experiences. As a result of these changes, physical and geographical distances are vanishing and today students can have synchronic and asynchronic education whether they are mobile or not.

As it is known, Turkey has been gearing herself up for a full integration into European Union. One of these integrations is the one on education. Educational issues are executed by European Commission’s Education and Training Programs. As stated in its main objectives, European Commission’s Education and Training Programs encourage member states to build up a Europe of knowledge and thus provide a better response to the major challenges of this new century: to promote lifelong learning, encourage to build up a Europe of knowledge and thus provide a better response to the major challenges of this new century: to promote lifelong learning, encourage mobility, innovation and access to education for everybody, and help people acquire recognized qualifications and skills and learn new languages. As Turkey has also joined these programs, student exchange as in Socrates-Erasmus Exchange Program has been realised on vocational, cultural and educational grounds on which new media can be considered as a rapidly emerging supportive tool. Those exchange students are likely to experience various challenges throughout their academic studies. It is obvious that using new media tools, students from different cultures and backgrounds in European Commission’s Education and Training Programs will benefit from a more integrated and effective learning environment and mobile transformation will be realised. In this study, we aim at viewing especially Erasmus program (European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students) in Turkey from new media perspective.

Keywords: New Media, Education, European Union.