Challenges in Distance Education During the (Covid-19) Pandemic Period

Tamer Sari,Funda Nayır

doi:10.17583/qre.2020.5872

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal the perceptions of the teachers, administrators, and academics who had to continue distance education during COVID-19 epidemic disease period, about the problems they experienced and the strategies to cope with the challenges. The working group of the current study consists of 65 teachers. The data were collected via an open-endedwritten interview. Content analysis was applied for analysis of the data gathered. Various important results regarding the use of distance education were obtained during the pandemic period and yielded significant findings. The first and the most important finding is that theachers have difficulties in internet access and lack of infrastructure, classroom management and human resources. Another challenge that participants reported was about teachers’ and students’ behaviours. The last theme stated by the participants is the distance education process itself. The findings reveal that the participants determined their strategies to deal with these problems with new arrangements regarding the classroom management, getting help from colleagues, family members and experts and communicating with students and parents. It can be certainly suggested that the participants are not ready for the distance education process and there is a lack of application in this regard; such as technology support and distance education training, and moreover, the participants do not have sufficient knowledge and experience about distance education.

Highlights

The purpose of this study is to reveal the perceptions of the teachers, administrators, and academics who had to continue distance education during COVID-19 epidemic disease period, about the problems they experienced and the strategies to cope with the challenges in distance education
The challenges faced by teachers, administrators and educators during the distance education process, the source of these challenges and their opinions on strategies to cope with these challenges were examined
When the challenges faced by the participants are analysed, it is seen that they mostly have difficulties in internet access and lack of infrastructure, classroom management and human resources

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Introduction

The purpose of this study is to reveal the perceptions of the teachers, administrators, and academics who had to continue distance education during COVID-19 epidemic disease period, about the problems they experienced and the strategies to cope with the challenges. The first and the most important finding is that theachers have difficulties in internet access and lack of infrastructure, classroom management and human resources Another challenge that participants reported was about teachers’ and students’ behaviours. Las conclusiones revelan que los participantes determinaron sus estrategias para hacer frente a esos problemas con nuevas disposiciones relativas a la gestión del aula, la obtención de ayuda de colegas, familiares y expertos y la comunicación con los estudiantes y los padres. The 6 phases identified by the World Health Organization specify the type of outbreak and the extent of the danger To illustrate these phases according to their degrees, the first phase is that viruses that spread from animals to animals have not been reported to cause infection in humans. The closure of schools has brought up another vital problem awaiting a solution as part of the fight against the epidemic in terms of planning the during and post-epidemic period

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