Volume Two - Academic Conferences

Figure 15 VirtualNeu General Menus
Nazime Tuncay and Hüseyin Uzunboylu
3.5 E-Learning Education and Management Expectations Online Survey
This is an on-going survey. Until now 70 questionnaires are filled. Main teachers’ expectations from
the course and the subjects that they want to learn are listed below.
Teachers emphasized that their expectations from this course are:
“At the end of this course I want to be able to prepare a website which all my students can use
and be a member of it. They will use this website to publish their homework assignments and to
interact with their friends.”
“The f undamental an d es sential use of on line learning, h ow s tudents ar e a ble t o us e v arious
modes of interactive learning tools to stimulate cognitive ability and gain an insight to the modern
hi-speed technological world of easily obtaining and learning information.”
“Being ab le t o us e d ifferent r esources f or educ ation and be ing ab le t o m anage c lass b y us ing
different education methods. Also, to get an idea about interactive learning.”
Teachers expressed that they are keen on learning the following subjects:
“Different w ays of us ing t he c omputer t o t each four skills of English t hat is L istening, Reading,
Writing, Speaking.”
“How to teach pronunciation ,how to teach drama, How to teach enjoyable grammar, to know how
to take online lessons, to use internet and sources”
“How t o attract m y s tudents' at tention more t o m y l essons a nd how to m ake t hem abl e t o
communicate in a foreign language properly in such a modern age we are in.”
3.6 Measurement Tool
Item di fficulty a nd item di scrimination i ndexes were det ermined b y item anal yzing i n t he end of
preliminary study. Some items which had low item difficulty and discrimination indexes were revised.
After the changes, test was performed and item analyses were done again, in May 2011. The test is
applied t o 68 students. According t o the obtained dat a, the r eliability c oefficient of t he t est was
calculated as 0, 94 by Cornbrash’s alpha coefficient method. As a result of these data, it is
determined that the test was useful.
3.7 Some of the First Impressions about VirtualNeu
Not all of the students finished writing their first impressions about VirtualNeu, however; it was seen
that i n gen eral t hey h ave pos itive at titude t owards V irtualNeu. Some o f t he first I mpressions o f
VirtualNeu Students are:
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