Is There a Change? Distance Education Studies in COVID-19 Pandemic
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24203/ajeel.v8i3.6458Keywords:
covid-19, distance learning, research trends, systematic review, content analysisAbstract
With the Coronavirus epidemic in China at the end of 2019 and in the rest of the World in the first quarter of 2020, all educational institutions started to give distance education partially or completely. Institutions were not ready for such a process, and they failed to the necessary preparations. That's why these applications are called emergency distance education. As a result, for the evaluation of distance education practices during the pandemic period, a number of studies have been published and continue to be conducted. Evaluation of these publications with content analysis will be very important in analyzing this period in the future. In this respect, the purpose of this study was to perform the content analysis of the articles related to distance education practices in the pandemic period. As a result of the search done using the Scopus database, a total of 180 articles were examined within the scope of the present study. The articles were examined in terms of country, number of times of citation, keywords, participants, data collection tools, variables / research interests, research designs and methods. Consequently, it was seen that the publications were mostly done in the USA; Opinion, Reflection and Review studies were conducted and cited most; that mostly the keywords of learning, online, education and covid-19 were used; that the participants were mostly undergraduate students; that the most frequent data collection tool was questionnaire; and that the most frequent dependent variables were engagement, readiness, perception and self-efficacy. The findings obtained were discussed in line with the related literature, and various suggestions were put forward.
References
B. Şener, İ. Sağlam Ertem, and A. Meç, “Online teaching experiences of ELT instructors,” J. Educ. Technol. Online Learn., vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 340–362, 2020, doi: 10.31681/jetol.770418.
N. E. Mbiydzenyuy and D. Silungwe, “Teaching and learning in resource-limited settings in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic,” J. Educ. Technol. Online Learn., vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 211–223, 2020, doi: 10.31681/jetol.732077.
E. K. Agormedah, E. A. Henaku, D. M. K. Ayite, and E. A. Ansah, “Online learning in higher education during COVID-19 pandemic : A case of ghana,” J. Educ. Technol. Online Learn., vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 183–210, 2020, doi: 10.31681/jetol.726441.
A. U. Kımay and B. Aydın, “A blueprint for in-service teacher training program in technology integration,” J. Educ. Technol. Online Learn., vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 224–244, 2020, doi: 10.31681/jetol.761650.
M. A. Koble, E. L. Bunker, M. A. Koble, and E. L. Bunker, “Trends in research and practice : An examination of the American journal of distance education 1987 to 1995,” Am. J. Distance Educ. ISSN, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 19–38, 1997, doi: 10.1080/08923649709526959.
S. Mishra, “A critical analysis of periodical literature in distance education,” Indian J. Open Learn., vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 40–55, 1997.
O. Zawacki-richter, E. M. Bäcker, and S. Vogt, “Review of distance education research (2000 to 2008): Analysis of research areas, methods, and authorship patterns,” Int. Rev. Res. Open Distrib. Learn. Rev., vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 21–50, 2009, doi: https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v10i6.741.
R. S. Davies, S. L. Howell, and J. A. Petrie, “A Review of Trends in Distance Education Scholarship at Research Universities in North America, 1998-2007,” Int. Rev. Res. Open Distance Learn., vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 42–56, 2010.
M. B. Horzum, M. Özkaya, M. Demirci, and M. Alpaslan, “Review of turkish distance education research,” Inonu Univ. J. Fac. Educ., vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 79–100, 2013.
A. Bozkurt, E. G. Kumtepe, A. T. Kumtepe, I. E. Aydin, M. Bozkaya, and C. H. Aydin, “Research Trends in Turkish Distance Education: A Content Analysis of Dissertations, 1986-2014,” Eur. J. Open, Distance E-learning, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 1–21, 2015, [Online]. Available: http://www.eurodl.org/?p=current&sp=full&article=690.
A. Bozkurt et al., “Trends in distance education research: A content analysis of journals 2009-2013,” Int. Rev. Res. Open Distrib. Learn., vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 330–363, 2015, doi: 10.19173/irrodl.v16i1.1953.
G. Durak et al., “Trends in distance education: A content analysis of master’s thesis,” Turkish Online J. Educ. Technol., vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 203–218, 2017.
A. Bozkurt, “Trends and patterns in massive open online courses: Review and content analysis of research on MOOCs,” Int. Rev. Res. Open Distance Learn., vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 118–147, 2017, doi: 10.19173/irrodl.v18i5.3080.
M. MusaudAsdaque, S. A. A. Rizvi, N. B. Jumani, and M. Ahmed, “Content analysis of distance education in Pakistan: A trends study of AllamaIqbal Open University Islamabad,” Int. J. Distance Educ. E-Learning, vol. 3, no. 2, 2018.
E. Kılıç-Çakmak et al., “2014 yılında eğitim teknolojileri alanındaki yayımlanan makalelerin incelenmesi,” Eğitim Teknol. Kuram ve Uygul., vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 80–108, 2016, doi: https://doi.org/10.17943/etku.04638.
G. Durak and S. Çankaya, “Seamless learning: A scoping systematic review study,” J. Educ. e-Learning Res., vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 225–234, 2018, doi: 10.20448/journal.509.2018.54.225.234.
G. Durak and S. Çankaya, “The current state of the art in learning spaces: A systematic review study,” Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn., vol. 13, no. 11, p. 208, Nov. 2018, doi: 10.3991/ijet.v13i11.9247.
S. Elo and H. Kyngas, “The qualitative content analysis process,” J. Adv. Nurs., vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 107–115, 2007, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04569.x.
M. Petticrew and H. Roberts, Systematic reviews in the social sciences: A practical guide. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006.
M. Schreier, Qualitative Content Analysis in Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2012.
V. Wilson, “Research methods: Content analysis,” Evid. Based Libr. Inf. Pract., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 177–179, 2011, doi: 10.1177/0165551504044668.
E. Buyukkol Kose, G. Cetin, and E. Yunkul, “A content analysis of studies related to educational technologies in biology education,” J. Educ. Technol. Online Learn., vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 1–15, 2018, doi: 10.31681/jetol.419932.
Scopus, “The world of scientific research is more demanding than ever before,” 2018. https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus (accessed Jul. 18, 2018).
J. R. Landis and G. G. Koch, “The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data,” Biometrics, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 159–174, 1977.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2020 Gürhan Gürhan, Serkan Çankaya
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
- Papers must be submitted on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis) and are not currently under consideration by another journal published by any other publisher.
- It is also the authors responsibility to ensure that the articles emanating from a particular source are submitted with the necessary approval.
- The authors warrant that the paper is original and that he/she is the author of the paper, except for material that is clearly identified as to its original source, with permission notices from the copyright owners where required.
- The authors ensure that all the references carefully and they are accurate in the text as well as in the list of references (and vice versa).
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
- The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author's responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author.