E-LEARNING EDUCATION SYSTEM IN UNIVERSITIES WITH INSTRUCTORS’ PERSPECTIVES AND A SURVEY IN TURKEY

Year 2010, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 25 - 31, 01.06.2010

Fazli Yıldırım Oktay Korucu Ceyhan Aktas Gokce Kule

Abstract

E-learning is becoming more popular way of education system for the universities in our period with the high spread of internet based applications. There are researches related to e-learning which examine the benefits and barriers throughout the integration period and most of them emphasize on the students perspective. This research concentrates on instructors of the universities, who use them as a new education tool, with the aim of breaking the perceptive barriers and establishing the instructors’ awareness for the benefits of e-learning education system. The factors that affect the successful e-learning adaptation from the instructors’ side could be realized with the help of this research. The research method is based on quantitative analysis which generally searches information about the factors that affects the instructors throughout the e-learning education. This will provide considerable educational framework for universities’ instructors

Keywords

E-learning , education system, university, distance education, instructors

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