INVESTIGATION OF UNIVERSITIES’ TECHNOLOGY-BASED DISTANCE EDUCATION SYSTEMS IN TERMS OF THEIR CHARACTERISTICS

Melih Engin
Ankara University

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the characteristics of creation, application and management processes of technology-based distance education systems at universities in Turkey. Creation, application and management dimensions have been detailed with categories. These categories are Institutional Support, Course Development, Teaching/Learning, Course Structure, Student Support, Faculty Support, Evaluation and Assessment. This research was designed using the correlative investigation model. A scale has been used for determining universities’ creation, application and management processes. According to findings, the most seen problem is about financial support and also because of this problem the most effected application is institutional support. And also some universities have problems about applying methods about course development, teaching/learning, course structure, student support, faculty support, evaluation and assessment. Universities which have distance education systems use synchronous and asynchronous models in their program at most. Most of technology-based distance education systems at universities are official and a number of them is foundation university. According to level of applied programs number of students in license degree completion is more than others. The others are license degree, associate degree and master degree, respectively. There isn’t any doctorate degree student in distance education. And also, there are various units which coordinate distance education in universities. It is remarkable that, universities’ experimentation in distance education is pretty limited; the spread of using internet technologies in education and confidence in distance education is increased confidence by these technologies.

KEYWORDS

Technology-based distance education, Distance education systems, Quality assessment, Characteristics.

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