Volume Two - Academic Conferences

Nazime Tuncay and Hüseyin Uzunboylu
How do the teachers perceive the usefulness of the e-learning/sharing portal?
How do the students and the teachers perceive the ease of use of the e-learning/sharing portal?
What ar e t he ad vantages and d isadvantages of us ing e -learning/sharing p ortal i n ed ucational
activities from the teachers point of view?
What are the suggestions of teachers about use of VirtualNeu?
What are the needs of English teachers that ELEM course would address, i.e. what information
should the VirtualNeu platform contain?
What are the aims and objectives that should the ELEM course syllabus address such that it can
be applied not only to the sample group teachers but to a more global group of teachers?
Is the content of ELEM course notes acceptable as an international context?
What facilities and menus should VirtualNeu contain?
A questionnaire is developed for each of the issues above and results are derived.
1.6 Limitations
The following limitations are resided in this study:
114 academicians from 12 different countries participated in the online survey.
E-Learning Training Needs Interviews are limited with 40 English Teachers.
Content evaluation survey is limited with 51 experts.
“ELEM Course Expectations Online Survey” is limited with 70 English teachers.
Measurement Tools Evaluation is limited with 68 experts.
This study was conducted with the volunteer participants.
All the research studies are limited with the researcher’s own budget.
2. Method
2.1 Population
114 academicians from 12 d ifferent c ountries p articipated t o the on line s urvey. Over 500 o nline
questionnaires w ere di stributed to experts f rom 25 c ountries ( Australia, B ulgaria, C anada, China,
Colombia, Cyprus, Czech, Dublin, E gypt, England, Finland, F rance, Republic, G reece, Germany,
Green La nd, Hong K ong, I srael, Netherlands, Cyprus, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, R omania, USA).
Announcements were m ade through m inistry of educ ation an d 80 E nglish teachers have r egistered
for the ELEM Course. 40 English teachers from North Cyprus have participated in E-Learning Training
Need Interviews. 51 Experts from 6 (Cyprus, Turkey, Romania, England, German, Greece) different
countries p articipated i n c ontent ev aluation s urvey. 70 English t eachers hav e par ticipated i n E-
Learning Education an d Mana gement E xpectations O nline S urvey. 68 ex perts ev aluated t he
measurement tools of the ELEM course.
2.2 Instruments
The online questionnaire about Syllabus was posted on Surveymonkey.com. In order to evaluate the
items in the qu estionnaire, ex perts evaluation (n = 1 9) was r equired. Experts g roup f rom education
technologist evaluated the data gathering scale both individually and collaboratively. Under the
suggestions of experts, the necessary corrections were done to the draft form of the questionnaire.
Hence, the content validity was maintained by the help of the educational technologist experts. All the
experts’ ev aluations an d s uggestions ar e t aken ov er i n t he dr aft f orm of t he ques tionnaire a nd
afterwards the necessary corrections were made. The Instruments used are:
2.2.1 E-Learning Training Needs Interviews
One to o ne interviews ar e delivered t o 40 English teachers. In these i nterviews they are wanted to
express their own needs in their own words and they are wanted to suggest solutions to these.
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