Abstract:

This study aimed to reveal the views of the faculty of education lecturers, who continued their lessons through distance education during the Covid-19 pandemic, regarding distance education. Descriptive research design was preferred in this study. The lecturers included in the study were determined by convenience sampling, one of the non-random sampling methods. An online questionnaire prepared by the researchers was utilized to collect data from academic staff. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and results are reported as percentage and frequency. According to the results; it was found that the majority of the lecturers have mastered the Adobe Connect program, the use of the Adobe Connect program in distance education is partially sufficient, the biggest obstacle in the implementation of distance education is the infrastructure inadequacies, the application of distance education is partially efficient for the student, and the majority of the teaching methods and techniques used in the lessons are verbal expressions. The duration of the distance education lessons is sufficient, the lecturers do not want to share the course contents because they think they may experience ethical violations with the students, students are given the right to speak during the lessons, supplementary education can be done after compulsory distance education, lecturers think that the measurement and evaluations in distance education partially reflect the reality and they preferred to evaluate the students by homeworks. Based on the results, suggestions such as providing education to lecturers and students for distance education platforms, and making more use of alternative assessment and evaluation techniques were made.

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