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This study aims to reveal the views of social services academics on the distance learning process during the pandemic process. The study’s work group consists of a total of 42 academics who provide social service education in various universities in Turkey. In the research, the "Anket Form" was used as a data collection tool. According to the research, most academics have not participated in any training, course or seminar on the methods of distance/online teaching before the pandemic. The difficulties that the social service academics who learn from a distance during the pandemic process are the difficulties arising from the lack of substrate, the difficulties arising from the lack of experience and knowledge and the lack of time to adapt to the distance education. The difficulties that academics face when conducting theoretical courses are the difficulties in interacting with most students and the difficulties experienced in the measurement-evaluation processes. The difficulties they encounter during the conduct of the practical courses are the difficulties related to the uncertainty in the conduct of the practical courses, the difficulties related to the transformation of the application process into theoretical course form, the difficulties related to the measurement and evaluation processes and the difficulties related to the supervision process. The strengths of remote education given in the pandemic process are the increased and sustained accessibility of education during this period, the increased and facilitated access to the lesson and the lesson materials, the possibility of active communication and interaction, the systematic and flexible content of the lesson. A large portion of the academics involved in the study noted that social service education is not sustainable through remote learning methods, that remote education is a supporting teaching method or a teaching method that is available in normal higher cases.

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