Online Distance Graduate Education in Turkey Through the Lenses of Administrators

Year 2019, Volume: 13 Issue: 2, 1216 - 1238, 31.12.2019

Serkan İzmirli , Özden Şahin İzmirli , Serkan Çankaya

https://doi.org/10.17522/balikesirnef.643361

Cited By: 4

Abstract

This study investigates the opinions of people who
have administrative experiences in distance education application and research
centers in universities in Turkey about graduate distance education programs
(master’s and doctoral degree). It was examined that why the number of master’s
degree distance education programs are so few and why universities don’t open
doctoral degree distance education programs. In this qualitative study, data
were collected by an online questionnaire with open ended questions.
Participants of the study were 11 academic members who have administrative
experiences in distance education. Qualitative date was analyzed with content
analysis method. According to the findings of the study, participants indicate
that regulations are insufficient and this is one of the reasons for limited
number of online distance education programs. In addition, they stated that
there is a negative perception towards distance education among academics. Most
of them think that distance education graduate programs should be offered

Keywords

distance education, online education, online distance education, online master program, online PhD program

Yöneticilerin Gözünden Türkiye’de Çevrimiçi Uzaktan Lisansüstü Eğitim

Abstract

Bu çalışmada Türkiye’deki
çevrimiçi uzaktan lisansüstü eğitim (YL ve DR) hakkında yöneticilik deneyimi
olan uzmanların görüşleri incelenmiştir. Çalışmada Türkiye’de uzaktan tezli
YL’nin neden yaygın olmadığı ve DR programlarının neden bulunmadığı
sorgulanmıştır. Nitel olarak desenlenen araştırmada veriler, açık uçlu soru
formu ile çevrimiçi olarak toplanmıştır. Araştırmanın katılımcılarını uzaktan
öğretimde yöneticilik deneyimi olan 12 öğretim elemanı oluşturmuştur.
Araştırmadan elde edilen nitel veriler içerik analizi yöntemi ile analiz
edilmiştir. Araştırma bulgularına göre, uzaktan öğretim yöneticileri,
Türkiye’de uzaktan tezli YL’nin yaygın olmaması ve DR’nin olmamasının nedenleri
arasında mevzuatın olmaması, uzaktan eğitime karşı negatif algı gibi çeşitli
sorunları ifade etmişlerdir. Araştırmaya katılan yöneticilerin büyük bir
çoğunluğu Türkiye’de tezli YL ve DR’nin uzaktan verilebileceğini ifade
etmişlerdir.

Keywords

uzaktan eğitim, çevrimiçi eğitim, çevrimiçi uzaktan eğitim, çevrimiçi yüksek lisans programı, çevrimiçi doktora programı

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