Opinions of Faculty of Sport Sciences Faculty Members on Distance Education Process: Swot Analysis Technique

Abstract

This research was conducted to examine the opinions of the faculty members working in the Faculty of Sport Sciences about the distance education process in terms of SWOT strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, threats analysis. Case study design was used in the research. Data were collected from 42 faculty members working in the Faculty of Sport Sciences in Istanbul province with a semistructured interview form. After the data collection, strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities were identified by using SWOT analysis. In the study, it was concluded that the strengths experienced by the faculty members in the distance education process were mostly the elimination of additional expenditure items such as transport, accommodation, nutrition, which would be made by families, the weaknesses were mostly the inability to teach practical courses, the opportunities were the use of innovative technologies and the faculty member had to improve himself/herself, and the threats were the inability to carry out measurement and evaluation (exams) properly. In addition, in the results of the research, it was seen that in the strengths, benefiting from educational opportunities from different places; in the weaknesses, low participation in the lesson, lack of physical assistance; in the opportunities, the opportunity of teachers to develop new methods and materials; in the threats, low quality of education was found to be important.

Keywords

• Education
• covid-19
• swot analysis
• sport sciences.

Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi Öğretim Üyelerinin Uzaktan Eğitim Sürecine İlişkin Görüşleri: Swot Analizi Tekniği

Öz

Bu çalışma, Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi öğretim üyelerinin uzaktan eğitim süreci hakkındaki görüşlerinin, güçlü (Strengths) ve zayıf (Weaknesses) yönler, fırsatlar (Opportunities), tehditler (Threats) analizi açısından incelenmesi amacıyla yapılmıştır. Çalışmada durum çalışması deseni kullanılmıştır. Araştırmada durum çalışması deseni benimsenmiştir. Veriler, İstanbul Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi'nde görev yapan 42 öğretim üyesinden yarı yapılandırılmış görüşmeler yoluyla toplanmıştır. Verilerin toplanmasının ardından, SWOT analizi kullanılarak güçlü ve zayıf yönler, tehditler ve fırsatlar belirlenmiştir. Araştırmanın bulgularında, öğretim üyelerinin uzaktan eğitim sürecinde yaşadıkları güçlü yönler temasında en fazla ailelerin yapacağı ulaşım, barınma, konaklama, beslenme gibi ek harcama kalemleri ortadan kalkmış olması, zayıf yönler temasında en fazla uygulama derslerinin işlenememesi, fırsatlar temasında, yenilikçi teknolojilerin kullanımı ve öğretim üyesinin kendini geliştirmek zorunda kalması, tehditler temasında, ölçme değerlendirmenin (sınavlar) sağlıklı yapılamaması sonuçlarına ulaşılmıştır. Ayrıca araştırmanın sonuçlarında, güçlü yönlerde, farklı yerlerden eğitim olanaklarından faydalanması; zayıf yönlerde, derse katılımın yeterli olamaması, fiziksel desteğin olmaması; fırsatlarda, öğretim üyelerinin yeni yöntem ve materyal geliştirme fırsatı; tehditlerde ise eğitim kalitesi düşüklüğü önemli olduğu görülmüştür.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Eğitim
• Covid-19
• Swot analizi
• Spor bilimleri.

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