THE EVALUATIONS OF THE COLLEGE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS ON DISTANCE EDUCATION FROM THE POINT OF THE TECHNICAL AND EDUCATIONAL FACTORS

Authors : Tolga GOK

Pages : 84-93

Doi:10.17718/tojde.19025

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Publication Date : 2015-04-03

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The purpose of the research was to investigate the college students’ opinions about distance education courses. The distance education questionnaire insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(DEQ); was developed for evaluating the perceptions of the students. The DEQ was conducted on 66 college students enrolled in the compulsory courses. The DEQ consisted of 18 items and two factors covering the technical and educational factors in the light of statistical analyses. When the results of the research were generally evaluated, it could be said that the majority of the students were not pleased with the distance education courses from the point of the technical insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(connection, accessibility, etc.); and educational insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(interaction, communication, etc.); factors. Some implications were presented regarding the results.
Keywords : Distance education, distance learning, higher education, perception

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