Perceptions of the History Department Students About the Distance Education Courses

Abstract

The aim of this research is to determine the perceptions of the students in the history department who take the courses of Atatürk's Principles and History of Revolution (APHR), Turkish Language (TL) and Basic Information Technologies (BIT) in distance education. In this research, the questionnaires, which were used as data collection tool, were applied to 123 students at Kırklareli University during the spring term of 2016-2017 academic year and who took APHR, TL and BIT courses in distance education. IBM SPSS Statistics 20 has been used to analyze the collected data. Descriptive statistics of the collected data were given in detail. It was found that attitude scores toward teaching APHR, TL and BIT courses with distance education were statistically differed based on “gender” and “existence of internet connectivity which can be used consistently” after performing independent samples t-test and One-Way ANOVA. There was no statistically significant association found between “course type (APHR/TL/BIT)” and “students’ behavior of spending time with other things during these courses” after performing Chi-Square Test of Independence. However, there was found statistically significant association between “course type” and “the students' perceptions about the impact of attending these courses as distance education on achieving learning outcomes”, and between “course type” and “students' perceptions about the convenience of teaching these courses as distance education” after performing Chi-Square Test of Independence (p<0.05).