Abstract:

Due to the virus outbreak caused by novel Coronavirus (Covid-19), education began to be carried out in Turkey via distance education as many countries worldwide. In this study, the attitudes towards to distance education and readiness for e-learning of education faculty students who were registered to formal education but had to take distance education during this epidemic period were examined in the context of the variables that are thought to be relevant. The participants of the descriptive survey research consisted of 333 students studying in different departments of the Faculty of Education of Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University (KSU). The e-learning readiness scale and the attitude towards distance education scale were used as data collection tools. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics, Kruskall Wallis, Mann Whitney U, independent sample t test and Anova tests were used. In the study, it was observed that students' attitudes towards distance education was low level close to moderate and their readiness was to e-learning was moderate level close to high. It was determined that class level, having computer, internet, smart phone and experience variables were effective on e-learning readiness and grade, department, having computer and internet variables were effective on students' attitudes. According to another result of the research, there is a moderate level relationship between attitude towards distance education and readiness to e-learning. In terms of the sub-dimensions of the e-learning readiness structure, a high level of relation was found between the attitude towards distance education and the motivation.

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