Abstract:

Education is a fact which is on the agenda of people from almost every age and occupational groups. On the other hand information and communication technologies (ICTs) both have an important place in the lives of individuals and effect style, model, time and place of the education. Distance education is a form of education in which information and communication technologies areused at the highest level. Nowadays, many educational institutions, companies and public institutions are using the distance education as an option. Universities are establishing associate, undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs of distance education. Also, some universities preferdistance education as a supportive factor in formal education. Analyzing the attitudes towards distance education of target groups from institutions which employ or will employ distance education, is greatly important both for defining the distance education vision of the institution and forbeing the source for the future studies on this subject. This study is aimed at analysing the attitudestowards distance education, of the students who have education at Namık Kemal University Tekirdag Degirmenaltı Campus, according to different variables. The study group consist of 282freshmen who study at Namık Kemal University Tekirdag Degirmenaltı Campus in 2013-2014. Inthe study, “The Scale of Attitudes Towards Distance Education ” which is developed by Kışla(2005) is used. Data is collected by the Google survey tool which is delivered to the students through the Learning Management System (LMS) of Namık Kemal University. In comparison of thequantitative data, t-test is used to find the difference between two groups, in case of two or moregroups, Oneway ANOVA is used to compare the parameters between groups and Scheffe test isused in determination of the group causing difference. In conclusion, the attitude level of the participating students is detected as low (2,440 ± 0,721). It is observed that the attitude points of thosewho have computers, continuous internet access possibility and mobile devices, have higher attitude points than those who have none of these, however, based on gender, there is no significant difference observed in the attitudes

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