DISTANCE EDUCATION PROCESS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THEOLOGY FACULTY STUDENTS

Abstract

It is clear that the current global health problems have made distance education a necessity rather than a choice. It is also known that this obligation contains many problems in terms of application infrastructure and hardware. In this context, this study, aim to examine the distance education process, which has become the most used education method in our country and all over the world in the 2020-2021 academic year because of the COVID-19 epidemic, according to the opinions of the students. The data of the study were collected from the students who took distance education courses in the undergraduate education of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Theology during the spring semester. The data used in the research were collected by the researchers with the previously prepared "Views of Distance Education Students on Distance Education" scale. According to the results, it was concluded that the vast majority (about 79.7%) of the students of the faculty of theology did not evaluate the distance education system that Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University started to implement in a short time as efficient. The general findings of the research were evaluated within the following framework; students' view of distance education, the effectiveness of distance education, the effective use of distance education tools, active communication and success in distance education. As a result of these experiences, it is aimed that the data obtained about the opinions of the participants will shed light and guide the distance education applications that will be carried out in the future processes. In addition, within the scope of the study, some recommendations were made about various public and private fields, especially universities.