Abstract
This study is aimed to examine the views of the students of the Faculty of Sports Sciences on distance education with SWOT analysis and to evaluate the current circumstance. The phenomenology design was used in the study. The research group consisted of 62 students studying at Afyon Kocatepe University Faculty of Sport Sciences located in a town in the Aegean region in Turkey. In collecting the data, the personal information form created by the researchers and the semi-structured interview form was used, and the data obtained were analyzed by content analysis and descriptive analysis technique. As a result of the findings, it was seen that the views of the students studying in the field of sports sciences on the strengths of distance education provided the best conditions in the Covid-19 process, gained experience in synchronous-online courses and the online system, and to reinforce the knowledge by making use of projects and assignments. Views on the weaknesses of distance education were expressed as the inability of every student to benefit from the right to education under equal conditions, difficulties in accessing the internet, and lack of materials. Besides, the views on the opportunities of distance education were determined as good management of the process, planning the applied courses face-to-face, that is, choosing the hybrid system, motivating the students for the assignments and projects, and making up compensatory programs applied to solve the problems. Socialization of students, unsuitable working environment, anxiety, and negative views of the society towards the education system were recorded as threats and dangers.
Highlights
Since December 2019, an epidemic has started to be mentioned in Wuhan city of Hubei province of China (Sertdemir, 2020)
As a result of the findings, it was seen that the views of the students studying in the field of sports sciences on the strengths of distance education provided the best conditions in the Covid-19 process, gained experience in synchronous-online courses and the online system, and to reinforce the knowledge by making use of projects and assignments
The statements in which the students expressed the most views on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the theoretical courses, respectively; “High efficiency of the courses according to the conditions of the pandemic period (n = 23)”, “Internet-based access problems (n = 20)”, “The education institution manages this process well (n = 19)” and “Students have a unique working environment. not having (n = 19)”
Summary
Since December 2019, an epidemic has started to be mentioned in Wuhan city of Hubei province of China (Sertdemir, 2020). In this sense, it was stated that Chinese experts conducted the first research, and created a report, and submitted this report to the World Health Organization (Huang et al, 2020). Quarantine measures were taken due to this epidemic, which reached all countries of the world and was named the new type of coronavirus (Covid-19) (Arslan & Karagül, 2020; Arslan, 2020), as well as security (Pala, 2020), education, trade, politics. Steps have been taken for research and measures in production, production and many other areas (Genç & Gümrükçüoğlu, 2020; Wang, Cheng, Yue & McAleer, 2020)
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