Açıköğretim Uygulamaları ve Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Hatice Gökçe BİLGİÇ, Hakan TÜZÜN

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Anahtar Kelimeler:EnDistance Education,Web-Based Distance Education,Problems

Özet: With the developments in Information and Communication Technologies, distance education that began with correspondencelearning moves to the web-based platforms as a new form. Higher education institutes have been supporting increasing educationdemands through the advantages of web-based distance education. Since web-based distance education have different needs incomparison to traditional face-to-face education, this new form of education brings different problems to its shareholdersincluding higher education institutes, instructors and students who are accustomed to the needs of traditional face-to-faceeducational environments. Thus, new developing technologies bring difficulties together with their advantages. This study aimsto examine the problems experienced in existing web-based distance education programs in a sample of higher educationinstitutes. To provide a successful planning in the process of opening a web-based distance education program, knowing aboutpossible problems that might be faced in web-based distance education programs is as important as knowing about necessities totake precautions. As a result of the study, problems faced in web-based distance education programs categorized as studentrelated, instructor-related, management-related, technical and others

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