Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences

Yazarlar: Nazime Tuncay, Huseyin Uzunboylu

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Distance education,Computer anxiety,Language anxiety,Social anxiety,Text anxiety.  

Özet: The purpose of this study was to investigate students' anxiety and resistance towards learning through distance education. Specifically, the study sought answers to the following questions: -What are the reasons of students not choosing distance learning courses? -Which symptoms of anxiety, if any, do distance learner’s exhibit towards distance learning?  Does gender have any significant relationships with distance learners' perception of factors that affect their anxiety and resistance?  A total of 120 distance education students in Near East University were observed and 96 of them were interviewed. Computer anxiety, language anxiety, social anxiety were observed to be among the reasons of students’ resistance to distance learning.  

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