Abstract
The aim of this research is to determine the perceptions of the students in the history department who take the courses of Atatürk's Principles and History of Revolution (APHR), Turkish Language (TL) and Basic Information Technologies (BIT) in distance education. In this research, the questionnaires, which were used as data collection tool, were applied to 123 students at Kırklareli University during the spring term of 2016-2017 academic year and who took APHR, TL and BIT courses in distance education. IBM SPSS Statistics 20 has been used to analyze the collected data. Descriptive statistics of the collected data were given in detail. It was found that attitude scores toward teaching APHR, TL and BIT courses with distance education were statistically differed based on “gender” and “existence of internet connectivity which can be used consistently” after performing independent samples t-test and One-Way ANOVA. There was no statistically significant association found between “course type (APHR/TL/BIT)” and “students’ behavior of spending time with other things during these courses” after performing Chi-Square Test of Independence. However, there was found statistically significant association between “course type” and “the students' perceptions about the impact of attending these courses as distance education on achieving learning outcomes”, and between “course type” and “students' perceptions about the convenience of teaching these courses as distance education” after performing Chi-Square Test of Independence (p<0.05).
Highlights
Information and communication technologies are rapidly developing
The population consists of 138 History Department students of Kırklareli University Faculty Of Arts And Science during the spring term of 2016-2017 academic year who have been attending APHR, Turkish Language (TL) and Basic Information Technologies (BIT) courses as distance education
The majority of students (90.2%) did not experience distance education before taking their APHR, TL and BIT courses in distance education, in other words, most of them did not get acquainted with distance education
Summary
Information and communication technologies are rapidly developing. As a consequence of this, their integration into the education environments is clearly seen. The number of universities offering distance education courses has been increasing in both Turkey and other countries recently. Distance education is the system in which the teacher and the student are in separate environments. Distance education term contains several terms such as “home study”, “independent study”, “distance teaching or teaching at a distance”, “distance education” (Keegan, 1990). According to Moore & Kearsley (2012) “distance education is teaching and planned learning in which teaching normally occurs in a different place from learning, requiring communication through technologies as well as special institutional organization.
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