What People in Turkey Think About E-Learning? Their Awareness and Preferences

Date

2006-09-13

Author

Karakuş Yılmaz, Türkan
Adıyaman, Zehra
Aşkun, Cengiz Savaş
Baran, Bahar
Onat Bayır, Gülin
Demirel, Funda
Kurşun, Engin
Uzun, Erman
Yalçınalp, Serpil
Uzun, Sevcan

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

39
views

0
downloads

People’s awareness on e-learning influences their expectations and preferences about it. Revealing these expectation and preferences will allow e-learning providers to meet their prospect students’ needs and improve themselves. In this study it is aimed to investigate the preferences and expectation of people, living in urban setting and using technology more than other settings, by considering their awareness about e-learning and distance education. Results of the study which 663 people participated showed that people’s Internet use rates are high, they are looking for flexible learning environments for several fields and most of them have a job; most of them prefer classroom setting. Although their mostly preferred tool is Internet for education, it seems they are not ready for attending pure online courses.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/78452

Conference Name

2nd International Open and Distance Learning (IODL) Symposium, (13 Eylül 2006)

Collections

Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology, Conference / Seminar

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

How are high school students epistemological beliefs related to their goal orientations Kadıoğlu, Cansel; Uzuntiryaki, Esen; Çapa Aydın, Yeşim (null; 2011-09-09) Literature reveals that epistemological beliefs and goal orientations affect students’ strategy use and learning in turn. When students set mastery goals they are expected to use more advance strategies such as elaboration and critical thinking and develop conceptual understandi ng . In order to support meaningful learning, the relationship between epistemological beliefs and goal orientations needed to be defined clearly. This study was conducted to examine the relationship between two sets of variables: e...
Factors Influencing the Sustainability of Online Text-Based Peer-Mentorship among Graduate Students Can, Gülfidan; Uzun, Yıldız; Nalça, Ceylan; Böğürcü, Ceylin (2018-10-10) The purpose of this study is to explore the factors influencing the sustainability of online text-based peer mentorship among graduate students. In this Participatory Action Research, a three-week online peer mentorship program was implemented with 13 graduate students and one faculty member using text-based chat applications. Data sources were reflection reports, reflection forms, focus group interviews, and chat session records. Data were collected again after a period of six months in order to establish ...
How a computer education teacher utilizes an online learning environment Durdu, Levent; Özden, Muhammet Yaşar; Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology (2010) The purpose of this study is to examine in detail how a computer education teacher utilizes an online learning environment. The study tries to explore how a computer education teacher uses information technologies in classroom instruction, which methods s/he uses during integration process of the online learning environment, how s/he solves the problems s/he faced and his/her expectations from an online learning environment. Furthermore, based on the experiences of the computer education teacher use of onli...
What makes a good LMS: An analytical approach to assessment of LMSs Yildirim, S; Temur, N; Kocaman, A; Goktas, Y (2004-06-02) This study aims to describe the key issues in assessment of a learning management system for higher education institutions and eventually to construct a criteria list.
Tracing users' behaviors in a multimodal instructional material: An eye-tracking study Yecan, Esra; Sumuer, Evren; Baran, Bahar; Çağıltay, Kürşat (2007-07-27) This study aims to explore user behaviors in instructional environments combining multimodal presentation of information. Cognitive load theory and dual coding theory were taken as the theoretical perspectives for the analyses. For this purpose, user behaviors were analyzed by recording participants' eye movements while they were using an instructional material with synchronized video and PowerPoint slides. 15 participants' eye fixation counts and durations for specific parts of the material were collected....

Citation Formats

T. Karakuş Yılmaz et al., “What People in Turkey Think About E-Learning? Their Awareness and Preferences,” presented at the 2nd International Open and Distance Learning (IODL) Symposium, (13 Eylül 2006), Eskişehir, Türkiye, 2006, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/78452.