Özet:

This research aims to present, the viewpoint of the Qur’an course instructors and religious officials who work for Presidency of Religious Affairs, on religious education and distance learning and their competence in using technological tools and equipment during covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. The research is a descriptive study that prefer the quantitative method. In the research findings obtained through a survey contains both open ended and multiple-choice questions. The survey was applied to 38 religious officials that chosen by deliberate sampling method from the Presidency of Religious Affairs’ instructors universe that were educating people with hearing impaired in the spring semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. Statistical analysis of the datas obtained from survey were done via Google Forms and Microsoft Excel. Due to the facts that the instructors are living in different cities and Covid-19 pandemic made it obligatory to implement the research distance. The determination have been done according to the research findings are: the religious education offered to the hearing impaired has continued for 8 years in a systematic way, the experience of the instructors are insufficient about distance education, before the epidemic the youngs with hearing impaired didn’t attend Qur’an courses sufficiently, during the epidemic the adults with hearing impaired didn’t show much interest in distance learning due to the reasons; lack of communication, family support, technological impossibilities, prejudice about failure in distance education and inadequate course hours. (baglaclı bir cumleden sonra virgule devam etmek anlam kaymasına sebep olabilir diye cumleyi böldüm) Moreover, due to the whatsapp application’s freeness and ease of use it was the most frequently used application and the reasons for the problems experienced in distance religous education during the pandemic are; distance education opportunities (imkanları demişsiniz ama sanki imkansızlıkları demek istemişsiniz, yani impossibilities), lack of materials and interest of both families and people with hearing impaired are the other determinations have been done by the research.

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