Abstract:

Instructional technologies and materials are the primary tools that support teachers in educational environments. In-service and preservice teachers must be able to use instructional technologies, develop and evaluate new materials, and have information about them. Therefore, there should be a course in which preservice teachers studying at the faculty of education can learn and apply instructional technologies in teacher training undergraduate programs. The Council of Higher Education (CoHE) has carried out studies within this framework. The council has included courses related to instructional technologies in the education faculty teacher training undergraduate programs that were developed. The "Instructional Technologies and Material Development" course, which was included in the teacher training undergraduate program of the faculty of education in 1998 for the first time, was named "Instructional Technologies and Material Design" in the new teacher training programs developed in 2007. In the revised teacher training programs dated 2018, it was named "Instructional Technologies". Today (2023), it continues under the name of "Instructional Technologies" in teacher training undergraduate programs. This study aims to examine the opinions of preservice teachers who are studying in the social studies education undergraduate program at a state university in Turkey in the 2021-2022 academic year about the "instructional technologies" course. The case study method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research. To determine the opinions of the preservice social studies teachers selected by the convenience sampling method, a 7-question open-ended questionnaire developed by the researchers and prepared by taking the opinions of the experts in the field was used as a data collection tool. The data obtained in the research were interpreted using tables and direct quotations.

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