A Phenomenological Study of the Instructors’ Lectures During COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors : Ecenur Büşra Ataş, Seyfi Kenan

Pages : 101-133

Doi:10.15285/maruaebd.1465275

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Publication Date : 2025-01-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :A new type of coronavirus (COVID-19) was detected in Wuhan, China’s Hubei Province on December 31, 2019. With the increase in the number of infections, the situation was declared as a pandemic in the world. Education was significantly impacted, resulting in the implementation of distance education across all levels. Therefore, how prepared the education system is for such a situation and to what extent educational technologies can meet the needs have been better understood in this process. Therefore, this study focuses on analyzing emergency distance education practices of instructors. It is aimed to find out how instructors taught their lectures and what kind of changes they experienced during this process. This research is a qualitative study based on phenomenological design. The study group consists of 21 faculty members who lectured emergency distance education courses at a faculty of education in a state university in İstanbul. The data were collected with semi-structured interview questions and analyzed with the content analysis. According to the findings, direct instruction, question and answer, and discussion were the common teaching techniques. According to another finding, instructors preferred process-oriented, result-oriented and performance-oriented evaluation methods in the emergency distance education. They also observed a decrease in their students’ motivation.
Keywords : Pandemi, koronavirüs, COVID-19, acil uzaktan eğitim, öğretim elemanları