Abstract

The Education Information Network (EBA), which is offered as a social education platform in Turkish education system, is a system that allows teachers and students to benefit from educational technologies free of charge. This research was carried out to determine the correlation between the level of use of the EBA and the level of use of educational technologies of science teachers working in secondary education. In the study, the correlation research model, which is a quantitative research method, was used. The study group of the research consist of 80 Science Teachers working in all public secondary schools in the district of Çorlu in the province of Tekirdağ in the spring term of the 2018-2019 Academic year. As the data collection tool, Alabay's "Opinions on EBA Usage Level" and Bayraktar's "Educational Technologies Usage Level Determination Questionnaire" were used to determine the demographic characteristics of the participants. The data was analyzed by using SPSS 23 statistical analysis software package. The results of the study were obtained by applying the normality test, nonparametric analyses (Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis H test) and the Correlation analysis on the obtained data. When the correlation between the opinions of teachers concerning the level of use of the EBA and the level of use of the educational technologies were examined, a positive and significant correlation was found between them.

Highlights

  • Today, technology takes place in every aspect of our life and makes our lives easier

  • The results of the correlation between the questionnaire for the opinions of the science teachers concerning the level of use of the EBA and their opinions concerning the use of educational technologies are given in the Table 13

  • It has been determined that the means of the science teachers' opinions agreeing on the statements on educational information network is positively high

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Introduction

Technology takes place in every aspect of our life and makes our lives easier. The continual increase in the use of technology allows the change and equality of opportunity in education as in all other aspects of life. The Ministry of National Education has developed the FATİH EBA, one of the educational technologies projects, has created a process of change both in the educational system of Turkey and in the teachers of the country. In this context, the success of educational technologies projects depends on the requirement for developing teachers’ cognitive and affective features concerning the developing technology beyond the process of providing the technological devices and equipment (Demirarslan and Usluel, 2005). The EBA, which was put into practice by the Ministry of National Education through the FATİH Project in 2010, has been the subject of various studies since . It has been found out that the studies on these subjects are about the role and functionality of the EBA in education, the opinions of teachers on the levels of use of the EBA platform, and the opinions of students on the EBA platform

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