Opinions of university students on effects of distance learning in Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 526-543
Author(s):  
Münir Şahin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Central Anatolia ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
The Social ◽  
Phenomenological Research Method ◽  
Distance Education System

This study aimed to examine the opinions of university students’ about distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study could be guiding for similar situations in the future. The study was carried out according to the phenomenological research method, one of the methods in qualitative research methods. The data were collected from 84 students from 4 different public universities in four regions, Black Sea Region, Mediterranean Region, Central Anatolia Region, Eastern Anatolia Region between April and December 2020, with a semi-structured interview form through Instagram interviews. According to the findings, the majority (f=61) of the participant declared that they were well informed by their universities and instructors about the processes of distance education. Almost half of the participants stated that they had no important problem reaching the distance education system. However, most of the participants (f=47) declared that they had problems in time. The participants shared the opinion that the course documents loaded by the instructors were sufficient, clear and instructive, and the live courses were useful. Most of the participants (f=62) declared that using homework, projects and presentations as a means of course measurement method is useful. The study showed that participants (f=70) had no communication problem with their instructors during the process. Students (f=75) also suggested distance education be used in similar situations. Before the study consent of the Social Sciences Research Committee was taken, students’ approval was taken online.

scholarly journals UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ VIEWS ABOUT EMERGENCY DISTANCE EDUCATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gürhan Durak ◽  
Serkan Çankaya
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Education System ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Performance Comparison ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Distance Education System

With the Covid-19 pandemic, which was effective all over the world in early 2020, emergency distance education applications started. Universities in Turkey also suffered from this situation and quickly started their own distance education applications using their own facilities. Different applications carried out by universities have had different reflections upon education. For example, while some universities provided compulsory live classes, some universities did not. Students are the most important component of this process. In this respect, the purpose of this study was to examine university students' views about emergency distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this qualitatively designed study, 32 students from 4 different universities were asked for their views. An online questionnaire form made up of open-ended questions was used as the data collection tool. The data were analyzed using the content analysis method, and the themes were created. As a result, two of the four universities used the software of Microsoft Teams as a distance education system, while others preferred the software of Moodle and ALMS. It could be said that the students who used Microsoft Teams, which is an integrated system where live lessons can be held, were more satisfied in this process. In addition, the students' views about the distance education system, the positive and negative aspects of the system, live course practices, communication with the instructor, getting feedback, socialization, motivation, academic performance, comparison with traditional teaching, etc. were reported and interpreted within the scope of the theories of Uses and Gratifications and Diffusion of Innovations. It was seen that among the university students almost all of whom were anxious before the distance education, the worries of those who took live lessons and used an integrated system were completely removed. In this respect, within the scope of the distance education system, it could be stated that the elements of live lessons and interaction have great importance for students. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0720/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Opinions of disabled university students on the distance education process

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1124-1136
Author(s):  
Assel Stambekova ◽  
Mariya Shmidt ◽  
Galiya Kydyrbaeva ◽  
Galiya Kydyrbaeva ◽  
Gulnur Yerzhanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Peer Relations ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Orthopedic Disabilities ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Education Process

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the views of university students with disabilities, regarding the distance education process. The data collection tool of this qualitative research carried out in a phenomenological design is a semi-structured interview form developed by the researcher, which aims to get the opinions of the disabled students studying at the university on the distance education process. The study group of the research consists of 30 students with visual, hearing and orthopedic disabilities who are studying at various universities in the cities of Almaty, Nur-Sultan, Aktobe and Karaganda in Kazakhstan, and have agreed to participate in the research voluntarily. As a result of the research, it was revealed that university students with disabilities found distance education inadequate in terms of teacher-learner, learner-learner, learner-content and learner-technology relations in line with the answers they gave in the semi-structured interview form. Improving teacher and peer relations in the distance education process of disabled university students, reorganizing the educational content and creating the technological infrastructure suitable for their needs are among the important tasks of the education approach of contemporary higher education. Keywords: Distance education, hearing impaired students, higher education. orthopedically impaired students, visually impaired students

scholarly journals The Concept of Social Justice from the Perspective of University Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nesip Demirbilek ◽  
Fulya Atila ◽  
Celalettin Korkmaz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Justice Perception ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Social

The aim of this study is to reveal how university students conceptualize their perceptions of social justice. 393 university students were included as the sample of the research. An interview form was sent to the students online. The content analysis technique was used in the analysis of the data. As results, it was stated that every student is equal, opportunities are provided equally, there is no discrimination, social activities are equally benefited, every student is given the same rights, interests and needs are cared for, and every student is treated fairly. They expressed as the most unjust incidents are "necessity of distance education due to the Covid-19 pandemic," "getting unworthy points," "discrimination," "lack of justice in scoring," "unfair scholarship distribution" and "no course exemption." In addition, since it is not in the literature, a scale can be developed regarding the social justice perception levels of students studying in higher education.

scholarly journals ACTITUDES EMPRENDEDORAS QUE INCIDEN EN EL DESARROLLO EMPRESARIAL DE LOS ESTUDIANTES UNIVERSITARIOS DE INSTITUCIONES DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR (IES), EN MÉXICO (ENTREPRENEURIAL ATTITUDES THAT INFLUENCE THE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS [HEI] IN MEXICO)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Margarita Carrera Sanchez ◽  
Abel Partida Puente ◽  
Luis Alberto Villarreal Villarreal ◽  
Antonio Carlos Cantú Villarreal
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Estudiantes Universitarios

El emprendimiento es un tema de interés y de actualidad, así como las actitudes emprendedoras, que son parte fundamental en el desarrollo empresarial en los estudiantes en las Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES), siendo un tema debatido desde hace algunos años por la mayoría de los países, esto gracias a los grandes aportes en la ciencia y tecnología que han alcanzado a la fecha en el desarrollo económico de cada país. El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo describir y analizar las actitudes emprendedoras que inciden en el desarrollo empresarial de los estudiantes universitarios en las IES. Implementando un análisis estadístico a través de una regresión lineal múltiple a través del software Statical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS v18), mediante la recolección de una encuesta a 457 estudiantes de una universidad mexicana, distribuidos en la carrera de contador público, licenciado en administración, licenciado en tecnologías de información y licenciado en negocios internacionales. La hipótesis planteada en relación con las actitudes emprendedoras que inciden positivamente en el desarrollo empresarial es contrastada con la población de estudio. Las aportaciones de las actividades realizadas por el desarrollo empresarial de los emprendedores favorecen el entorno y contribuyen en la generación de empleos y desarrollo económico. De tal forma que las actitudes emprendedoras que fueron significativas en el desarrollo empresarial de los estudiantes universitarios son: la Motivación de Logro (ML), la Motivación por Emprender (MPE) y la Actitud Emprendedora Universitaria (AEU), con valor de significancia por debajo del 5%.

scholarly journals Absolute Versus Relative Success: Why Overconfidence Creates an Inefficient Equilibrium

2021 ◽  
pp. 095679762110074
Author(s):  
Alice Soldà ◽  
Changxia Ke ◽  
William von Hippel ◽  
Lionel Page
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
University Students ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Noisy Signal ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Relative Success ◽  
The Social ◽  
Unequal Allocation

Overconfidence is one of the most ubiquitous biases in the social sciences, but the evidence regarding its overall costs and benefits is mixed. To test the possibility that overconfidence might yield important relative benefits that offset its absolute costs, we conducted an experiment ( N = 298 university students) in which pairs of participants bargained over the unequal allocation of a prize that was earned through a joint effort. We manipulated confidence using a binary noisy signal to investigate the causal effect of negotiators’ beliefs about their relative contribution to the outcome of the negotiation. Our results provide evidence that high levels of confidence lead to relative benefits (how much one earns compared with one’s partner) but absolute costs (how much money one receives overall). These results suggest that overconfidence creates an inefficient equilibrium whereby overconfident negotiators benefit over their partners even as they bring about joint losses.

scholarly journals Evaluatıon of sports character of university students who do sports in terms of various variables

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 1197-1206
Author(s):  
Yasin Yıldız ◽  
Murat Özmaden
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
University Students ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
English Summary ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Sport Team ◽  
The Social ◽  
Package Program ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Sports Sciences

In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the sportive characteristics of university students who are actively involved in sports in terms of gender, age, education department, class and type of sport (team and individual). In addition to the personal information form for the demographic characteristics, the Sport Character Scale, developed by Chang-Yong Jang (2013) and adapted to Turkish by Görgüt and Tuncel (2017), was used. A total of 621 students 401 males (64.6%), 220 females (35.4%)) who were active in the individual and team and sports branches of the Sports Sciences Faculty of Aydın Adnan Menderes University were surveyed. The data obtained from the students were analyzed by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) v 25.0 package program, T-Test, One-Way Analysis of Variance and Scheffe Test to determine that the groups were statistically different from each other. According to the data obtained from the students who participated in the study, differences were found between the sporting character age, gender, class and type of sport. As a result of this research, it can be said that the sporting characteristics of the students doing sports can be determined and evaluations can be made towards their goals. ​Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file.   Özet Bu araştırmada aktif olarak spor yapan üniversite öğrencilerinin sportif karakterlerinin cinsiyet, yaş, öğrenim görülen bölüm, sınıf ve yapılan spor türü (takım ve bireysel) açısından değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmada demografik özellikler için kişisel bilgi formunun yanında Chang-Yong Jang (2013) tarafından geliştirilen ve Türkçe uyarlaması Görgüt ve Tuncel (2017) tarafından yapılan Spor Karakter Ölçeği (Sport Character Scale), kullanılmıştır. Araştırmada Aydın Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi’nde öğrenim gören bireysel ve takım ve spor branşlarında aktif olarak yer alan 401 erkek (%64,6), 220 kadın (%35,4) olmak üzere toplamda 621 öğrenciye anket uygulanmıştır. Araştırmada öğrencilerden edilen veriler SPSS (Statistical Package For The Social Sciences) v 25.0 paket programı kullanılarak T-Testi, Tek Yönlü Varyans Analizi ve grupların birbirinden istatistiksel olarak farklı olduğunun belirlenmesinde Scheffe Testi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmaya katılan öğrencilerde elde edilen veriler doğrultusunda sportif karakter yaş, cinsiyet öğrenim görülen sınıf ve yapılan spor türü arasında istatiksel anlamda farklılıklar tespit edilmiştir. Bu doğrultuda bu araştırma neticesinde spor yapan öğrencilerin sportif karakterlerinin saptanarak amaçları doğrultusunda hedeflerine yönelik değerlendirmeler yapılabileceği söylenebilir.

scholarly journals Determining the Readiness Status of University Students in STEM Education and Distance Education Course

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Natalia A. Zaitseva ◽  
Zhanna M. Sizova ◽  
Vera A. Chauzova ◽  
Anna A. Larionova
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Technology Support ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Engineering Mathematics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Remote Training

This research, Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and remote training on information given and university students in STEM, and distance education classes integration on the emphasis and work, STEM and remote training on course to integration on the information given is intended. On the other hand, STEM education and distance education with related re-search support in order to ready distance education presence, levels were in-vestigated. The study was applied during the 2020–2021 fall semester. The quantitative research method was used in the research. This research study comprises groups that have been created by 520 4th grade reading Science In-formation Teacher candidates of universities. University Students ‘STEM and Distance Education Ready presence, Survey’ was applied. Data and survey were collected online. The collected data were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software. Research on the results based on students’ training and daily lives for technology support needs that heard, their needs education and their their lives ease it provides to the results, fur-ther STEM and related studies in the literature even more writing space font contribution will provide, also STEM Education ‘ready presence, status, re-mote training ready presence, status on by more high that the result was reached.

scholarly journals The Concept of Social Justice from the Perspective of University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nesip Demirbilek ◽  
◽  
Fulya Atila ◽  
Celalettin Korkmaz ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Justice Perception ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Social

The aim of this study is to reveal how university students conceptualize their perceptions of social justice. 393 university students were included as the sample of the research. An interview form was sent to the students online. The content analysis technique was used in the analysis of the data. As results, it was stated that every student is equal, opportunities are provided equally, there is no discrimination, social activities are equally benefited, every student is given the same rights, interests and needs are cared for, and every student is treated fairly. They expressed as the most unjust incidents are "necessity of distance education due to the Covid-19 pandemic," "getting unworthy points," "discrimination," "lack of justice in scoring," "unfair scholarship distribution" and "no course exemption." In addition, since it is not in the literature, a scale can be developed regarding the social justice perception levels of students studying in higher education.

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