Adoption Process of Instructors to Online Roles

Abstract

Online learning activities has started to rise in 1990s and continued to develop in 2000s with new instructional technologies. Online developments caused a dramatic evolution in instructors online roles, and raises fundamental questions about how instructors will adopt these changing roles for their teaching-learning activities. At this study adoption process of instructors online roles was investigated deeply using ethnographic case study methodology. Sample of study is 3 instructors at non-thesis masters program which is Educational Administration, Controlling, Planning and Economics. Researcher joined online teaching learning activities as student with new identity and collected data using ethnographic approaches. Data about adoption process were collected focusing 4 main online roles of instructor which are pedagogical technical, social and managerial. Results of study offers deep information about instructors adoption process to online learning environment Keywords: ınstructors online roles, ethnographic study, adoption process to online roles

Keywords

• ınstructors’ online roles, ethnographic study, adoption process to online roles

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