A RESEARCH ON THE EFFICIENCY OF DISTANCE EDUCATION IN UNIVERSITIES DURING THE PANDEMIC

Year 2024, Volume: 25 Issue: 2, 174 - 190, 01.04.2024

Baris Bulunmaz , Ramazan Bilge

https://doi.org/10.17718/tojde.1330509

Abstract

During the pandemic period, there have been such upheavals from production methods to distribution strategies, and from supply methods to corporate functioning. Accordingly, it would not be wrong to say that all companies and sectors, regardless of national or international, are part of this fundamental transformation. When the education sector was evaluated from the same perspective, it is possible to say that it is one of the sectors most affected by the differences created by this pandemic. For instance, very soon after the pandemic, almost all higher education institutions switched to distance education activities instead of face-to-face education. This study aims to examine the effects of the devastation caused by the pandemic on students at the higher education level in the context of efficiency. In this research, the criteria has been set as which university students’ efficiency was achieved during the distance education process, and the research included 1604 participants from 15 universities, who formed the study’s sample. The data obtained was subjected to reliability and validity analysis, and it was by using the SPSS program, and the results were examined with different dimensions.

Keywords

Covid-19, Pandemic, Distance Education, Efficiency

Project Number

Bilimsel Araştırma Projesi

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