Abstract:

Concept of participation, which is defined as the presence of students in the course or following registered courses, is extremely important in distance education. It is seen that there are different factors affecting participation. Among these factors, there are elements such as teacher, teaching method, individual characteristics of students, and duration of course. It is seen that participation affects important areas such as student success, performance and dropping out of course. This study aims to determine tendencies of students who have to take courses with distance education during the pandemic period, by examining their records on online course platform. While determining general participation tendencies of students, duration of their stay in course was examined according to variables of course, department, gender and way course was presented. It was investigated whether there is a relationship between duration of delay to lesson and duration of stay in lesson. As a result of the research, it was seen that attendance to classes was higher in first weeks, and number of attendance was always lower in following weeks. It was observed that participants studying in Law, Finance and Agricultural Machinery departments, where participation times differ according to department, did not stay long in distance education courses. While participation time did not change according to gender, it was determined that participation time in synchronous TBTK courses took longer than courses with video surveillance. It has been observed that there is a moderate and negative significant relationship between the duration of the students' stay in the course and the delay to the course. At the end of the study, it is recommended to determine the reason for this issue and to carry out new studies in different courses so that the participation of the students does not decrease in the following weeks.

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