ROUGH WAY FOR ACADEMICS: Distance Education

This study aims to compare the academics‘ perceptions about face to face and distance
education, beside finding out the contributions of distance education to them,
difficulties they experience in synchronous and asynchronous distance education
environments and suggestions for possible solutions of the existing problems.
The sample consists of 52 instructors providing distance education courses actively at 7
universities in Turkey, in 2009-2010 academic year. As data collection tool, a survey
called ―Lecturer Opinion About Distance Learning and Face to Face Education
Comparison‖ is utilized. In the analysis of the data, content analysis, frequency
distribution, independent and paired samples T tests and pearson correlation were
used.