Covid-19 Pandemi Sürecinin Akademisyenlere Getirdiği Avantajlar ve Dezavantajlar: Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi Örneği

Abstract

Since the beginning of 2020, the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has affected the world in many areas. It appears in education within these areas. Due to the pandemic education to many countries, including Turkey remotely (online) is continuing its training platform. Including in higher education in Turkey the rapid transition to distance education at all education levels required sudden infrastructure improvement and rapid adaptation to this process. The opinions of the academicians about the online courses made as a result of the measures taken in this process are important in terms of determining the limitations, quality, advantages and disadvantages of distance education. Thanks to the answers received from the academicians, it is aimed to determine the negative situations encountered in this process and to pave the way for a better education system.
 This study aims to understand the advantages and disadvantages of distance education for academicians, who are important stakeholders of distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic process. Therefore, the study was designed with phenomenology, one of the qualitative research methods. 14 academicians from Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University (KSÜ) participated in the study. Research participants were selected using the typical case method. In order to obtain research data, the approval of the Ethics Committee of KSU was first obtained. Questions were directed to academicians with a semi-structured interview form developed in line with expert opinions. Open-ended form and semi-structured interview forms were used as data collection tools. Content analysis method was used in the analysis of the data, interpretations were made by making direct quotes from intermediate opinions, and the findings were compared with the quotations, and the results and suggestions were developed.