Abstract:

Providing easily accessiable and flexible education opportunities by using technology underlies the distance education. Thanks to the flexibility, the use of distance education in in-service trainings becomes popular. The purpose of this study is to determine teachers’ views and the factors of that affect motivation about distance in-service training. So in this study, we focus on teachers’ views about distance education practices. Participant group of the study contains 21 teachers who work in 2011-2012 educational year and participates distance inservice education programme in Erzurum. This training programme contains “Gradual Absence Training” and “Disaster Training”. In this study that is applied as case study, the datas are collected and analysed by using qualitative method. In conclusion, distance in-service training applications are found preferable by teachers. At this point, besides this education provides place and time flexibility, it also seen to be effective because of being more interesting and accessible. However, it is seen that teachers expressed a negative opinion about existence of technical problems and limitation of interaction.

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