期刊名称:International Online Journal of Education and Teaching
电子版ISSN:2148-225X
出版年度:2021
卷号:8
期号:1
页码:178-192
语种:English
出版社:Informascope
摘要:The study aimed to obtain the views of prospective teachers about the distance education practices conducted due to COVID-19 pandemic in their faculty. The study covered the period of 23 March 2020 and 29 May 2020, at Eregli Faculty of Education, in Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey. The study adopted the document analysis method among the qualitative research patterns. The participants of the study comprised 192 prospective teachers at Eregli Faculty of Education who attended the courses carried out via distance education on the specified dates above. The participants were selected using convenience sampling method and on voluntary basis. The data were collected via an open-ended questionnaire form developed by the researcher. The form was composed of 12 open-ended questions. The data were analysed through content analysis method. In the data analysis process, the written statements of the participants were examined in accordance with the purpose of the research, then they were coded and the themes were created. The results revealed that "watching the course again”, "not spending time to go to school"and "evaluating over homework instead of exam"were the positive aspects; and "hardware and access difficulties", "failure to create a warm classroom environment" and "the utilized program’s not allowing interaction" were the negative aspects of the distance education practices in their context.