Students’ Views of Distance Education Provision at One University

Year 2005, Volume: 6 Issue: 4, 128 - 137, 01.12.2005

Binnur Genç Ilter Mualla Bilgin Aksu Nalan Yılmaz

Abstract

roviding university students with distance education is of great importance in the global world. Distance education provides advantages and benefits especially for students who don’t have the chance to meet lecturers from other universities face to face. Distance education connects the learner and teacher to resources that are difficult to access otherwise. It is not necessary to gather students in one classroom at the same time in a distance program. Through distance education facilities students and lecturers can store, update and transfer information very quickly. Furthermore, distance education helps save money in terms of accommodation and travel expenses. This paper describes students’ perceptions and attitudes towards distance education based on their gender, school types attended, age and access to educational technology such as computer and internet. This paper also describes the specific program used by the faculty of Law at Akdeniz University,Turkey.

Keywords

Distance Education, Faculty of Law, and Educational technology

Assist. Prof. Dr. Binnur Genç ILTER

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