PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED AT THE BEGINNING OF DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TEACHER SOLUTIONS FOR PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN THE PROCESS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

Abstract

In order for societies to develop and reach a civilized and civilized position on the stage of history,
it is the basic and most important condition that human beings, who are their biggest capital, are
well educated. The blurring of borders as a result of globalization has caused significant changes in
almost every aspect of life and has influenced the whole world. Technological developments, which
have gained great momentum with globalization, have caused change and transformation in many
areas. The reflection of this change and transformation in the field of education has found its way
through the distance education system and has provided the education of millions of people outside
the classical education approach. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the whole world, causing
negative effects in all areas of life. One of the areas where these negative effects are felt the most is
the field of education. In order to avoid these negativities, the distance education model has been
adopted with a rapid adaptation in Turkey as in the whole world. The subject of the research; These
are the problems faced by teachers in the distance education process, which has been widely applied
due to the COVID-19 epidemic, and the solutions developed against these problems. The case study
design, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research, and the snowball
sampling method was used while determining the study group. Questions in the semi-structured
interview form were used as data collection tool. The data were analysed with content analysis,
which is one of the qualitative data analysis approaches. In the research, "problems encountered at
the beginning of distance education", "teacher solutions to the problems encountered in the distance
education process", "contributions of colleagues and administrators to the teacher in the distance
education process", "problems encountered in the distance education process", "teachers to be more
advantageous in the distance education process". Themes such as “what needs to be done” were
researched and within the scope of the research regarding these main themes and sub-themes;
Infrastructure and hardware-based problems come to the fore, the problems experienced in adapting
to distance education are mostly motivation-based, the most used solution is to work on the
professional field of the teacher, and administrative contributions such as arranging the lesson
programs come to the fore. It has been determined that the recommendations regarding the lack of
internet, computers, infrastructure and platforms, motivation problems, moral support of teachers in
the process and training on distance education come to the fore.