Objectives: The present study describes the utilization frequency and competencies of educational technologies among academics at a university in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Participants were 391 faculty members and lecturers working in the faculties and vocational schools of a Turkish university during the 2020-2021 academic…

Background: This study investigated how an online professional development program (OPDPs) affected preschool teachers' STEM teaching competence, what technological tools and materials they used during STEM education after the program, and what they thought about OPDPs. Purpose: This study aimed to focus on all dimensions of the effects of OPDPs…

This study, aimed to determine how teachers' technostress levels changed during the COVID-19 outbreak. Within the scope of the study, data were collected from a total of 599 teachers, including 295 teachers before the COVID-19 outbreak and 304 teachers after the beginning of the outbreak. The Teachers' Technostress Levels Defining Scale developed…

The World Health Organization has labeled the emergence of a coronavirus kind that threatens humanity in Wuhan, China, as a "pandemic" (WHO). The global epidemic has produced severe disruptions in educational possibilities all across the world. This condition highlighted a desire to provide education without attending school, and remote…

E-learning as a unique technology provides distance learning for users. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 era, this educational system attracted more attention than ever before. The main purpose of this study is to measure the success of Sakarya University in gaining students' satisfaction with its own e-learning system. For this purpose, an…

In the current study, path analysis technique was applied to explain the possible causal relations between attitude towards distance education, interest in educational technologies, instructional technologies outcome expectation, intention to use educational technologies and technology integration self-efficacy variables. According to the data…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to reveal both the adaptations of information computer technology (ICT) teachers teaching the information technologies and software (ITS) course online during the pandemic and the factors that affect this adaptation process. Teachers' endeavours to conduct their courses online, the support they take during…

The purpose of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of research on open and distance learning, focusing on articles affiliated with institutions or authors in Türkiye. Articles were retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) database, those indexed in the SSCI, SCIE, and ESCI categories, published between 2020 and 2024. A total of 1,229…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many things changed in people's educational lives as individuals transitioned to remote learning. While technologically advanced countries swiftly adapted to the new normal, less developed countries encountered substantial obstacles. This study aimed to compare distance education practices during the lockdown in four…

COVID-19 has caused great changes in education. Routines, practices, and especially the technologies used in teaching have differentiated at all levels of education. The purpose of this study is to determine the technologies used by faculty members for instructional purposes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and their perspectives on the use…

The study aims to evaluate how distance social studies courses were conducted during the pandemic, in line with teachers' experiences. The semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 social studies teachers working in various provinces of Turkey in this study, which was carried out with interpretative phenomenology design, one of the…

The present study aims to investigate prospective teachers' views about creating websites for social studies teaching in distance education. To this end, the study employed the case study method, one of the qualitative research methods. The study group consisted of prospective social studies and classroom teachers studying in the 2019-2020…

This study aims to assess the mathematics literacy levels of 15-year-old students participating in the PISA-2022 test, considering the impacts of the frequency of digital device usage, and the influence of printed and digital learning resources in the educational context across Estonia, Finland, China (Hong Kong), Croatia, and Turkey during…

Since the industrial revolution, humanity has employed a significant part of education activities within the school system, in order to educate the workforce needed. However, in March 2020, this situation underwent a radical change due to the global epidemic. The practical response of this radical change affecting schooling was that face-to-face…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face education practices at all levels of formal education institutions in Turkey were suspended for precautionary purposes, and distance education was started urgently. Many studies have been conducted on this form of education, which has been implemented for a long time and will be replaced by face-to-face…