Attitudes of the academics in sports sciences towards distance education

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African Educational Research Journal
Published: October 29 2020
Volume 8, Issue 4
Pages 799-805
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30918/AERJ.84.20.185

Abstract

The aim of this research is to determine the attitudes of academics who teach in the field of sports sciences towards distance education. This is a descriptive research. The universe of the research consists of the sports academics who participated in the distance education in the Covid-19 period in the 2019-2020 academic year. In the study, 351 academics were reached within the scope of convenience sampling method. The questionnaire forms were prepared, distributed and collected online, taking into account the Covid-19 process. In the study, personal information form and attitude scale towards distance education developed by Ağır (2007) were used to collect data. The SPSS 21 package program was used to analyze the data in the study. When the descriptive statistics regarding the attitude towards distance education are examined, the mean of the advantages of the education subscale is determined as 37.15 ± 11.04, the mean of the limitations of education subscale is determined as 18.61 ± 7.08 and the mean of the overall scale is determined as 55.76 ± 13.79..

Keywords: Sports sciences, distance education, academic, Covid-19.

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