Yabancı Öğrencilerin Covid-19 Salgını Nedeni ile Verilen Uzaktan Eğitim Hakkındaki Görüş ve Memnuniyetlerinin Değerlendirilmesi: Türkiye Örneği

Authors : Dilaver TENGİLİMOĞLU, Fatma MANSUR, Pınar Amjad KHALEEL SAFFAR, Emre TENGİLİMOĞLU

Pages : 1404-1418

Doi:10.32709/akusosbil.986942

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Publication Date : 2021-12-29

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Covid-19 has negatively affected the entire world in economic, social, and educational areas. Many countries have launched distance learning applications to ensure learning continuity. Turkey is a country that is preferred by the students from the Turkic Republics and neighboring countries. This study was undertaken to put forth the opinions, satisfactions and problems of the international students about distance education in Turkey. 435 international students have participated the research. The data was collected through online survey technique. The research results suggested that the foundation universities broadly adopt synchronous education, whereas public universities deliver asynchronous education. It was concluded that the great majority of students participating in the research had problems in following the lessons and the overall satisfaction rate (64%) was moderate and approximately half of participants (53.8%) of them found the distance education effective. The students, studying graduate, were observed to be relatively more satisfied with distance education when compared to the other students. The largest problems that students have in distance education are internet access and hardware-related technical problems; lack of internal motivation and discipline as it is a virtual environment; difficulty to understand the lessons due to non-performance of the interactive lesson. Covid-19 was also seen to affect the social life of almost all students (90.8%) negatively. 
Keywords : Distance education, online learning, Covid 19 pandemic, international students