Abstract
In this study we aimed to investigate young college students’ experienced problems and support resources regarding online or distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic. We used an innovative technique, Online Photovoice (OPV) method to collect data. The research includes the theoretical framework created to understand the factors that facilitate and complicate online/distance education processes for prospective teachers in the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the framework consisted of Ecological Systems Theory (EST), Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), and OPV. In the analysis of the data, we used Online Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (OIPA). The study sample consisted of 153 young university students in three universities in the south and southeast of Turkey. The data collection tool was created as an online form consisting of four parts: introduction, general information, and consent form; questions on the most important facilitator and the most important barrier in your life for your online/distance education during the COVID-19 process using OPV; and demographic questions section. When the facilitating factors obtained from the study data were examined, 11 main themes emerged. These main themes were having online or distance education (37%), technology, computer, internet, and helpful course programs (30%), and private space (10%). On the other hand, 16 complicating main themes have emerged including insufficient technology (32%), problems with online education (15%), and financial issues (12%). The participants attributed facilitators and barriers to EST levels, respectively: individual/intrapsychic factors (47%, 43%), microsystem (19%, 48%), exosystem (36%, 37%), and macrosystem (26%, 34%).
Highlights
We have found Online Photovoice (OPV) includes all advantages of OPV, and it has transformed disadvantages of traditional photovoice into advantages
The experiences of university students with distance education in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic were examined with the OPV method (Tanhan, 2020; Tanhan & Strack, 2020)
We benefited from Ecological Systems Theory (EST), Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), and OPV to collect and used OIPA to analyze the data
Summary
In this study we aimed to investigate young college students’ experienced problems and support. The purpose of this study was using Online Photovoice (OPV; Tanhan, 2020; Tanhan & Strack, 2020) to investigate the. We aimed to use Online Photovoice (OPV) to understand the main facilitators and barriers of online or distance education for youth college students
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