STUDENT PERCEPTIONS FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION AND EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF THE SYSTEM

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With the increase in the number of universities and students requesting distance education as well as the development of Information Technologies, new institutions providing distance education have come up and this situation has made the research of the efficiency of distance education a more important issue. Considering the social and economic structure, population growth rate and young population as well as the number of students and academicians in our country, it is realized that distance education is of high importance for our country. The aim of this study is to evaluate the distance education used in the mutual courses in Hitit University in 2013-2014 term (Turkish language, Ataturk’s Principles and History of Turkish Revolution) by the students, to analyze the efficiency and to develop distance education system in accordance with these findings. Survey method has been used to measure the perceptions of the students for distance learning and to evaluate the system of distance learning. The sampling of the research has been made up with 321 students randomly and homogeneously chosen among 4000 students actively studying in the faculties, graduate schools and vocational schools of Hitit University.

Keywords: Efficiency Analysis, Distance Education Perception

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