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ISBN: 978-972-8939-25-0 © 2010 IADIS2. METHODOLGY2.1 Participants676 freshmen who have enrolled to a blended learning program of the Divinity College of Ankara Universityadministered by Ankara University Distance Education Center participated in the research.The distance education program has a blended learning model in which learners could take an onlineorientation program, printed course books, video courses, discussion board, synchronous chat via LMS, 48hours face to face interaction in every term and face to face exams. The demographic profiles of the studentsare shown in Table 1.GenderAgeAccess tocomputer2.2 InstrumentationTable 1. Participant demographicsVariables Frequency Percent Variables Frequency PercentFemale 237 25.1 Regular 236 34.9Access toMale 439 64.9 Partially 191 28.3Internet25 and under 261 38.6Irregular 245 36.226-35 280 41.4 3 years and less 364 53.836-45 129 19.1 3-7 years 231 34.2Period of45 and older 6 0.9 8-12 years 65 9.6computerRegular 189 28.1usage13-17 years 6 0.9Partially 198 29.4 More than 17 3 0.4Irregular 286 42.5In this research “Community Feeling Scale” which was developed by Ilgaz (2008) was used. The scale wasdeveloped to determine the community feeling of students in distance education based on Rovai, Wightingand Lucking’s (2004a) studies. The scale composed of 6 items as a 7 point likert scale. Analysis had beenexecuted with remained 571 data. A confirmatory analysis was performed. Confirmatory factor analysis(CFA) is a statistical technique used to verify the factor structure of a set of observed variables. CFA allowsthe researcher to test the hypothesis that a relationship between observed variables and their underlying latentconstructs exists (Suhr, 2006). The scale has been designed as a two dimension scale- action and affectionbyconsidering the expression types of the items in community feeling scale. The CFA results were; [ 2 (7,N=571) = 24.76, p,05. This result showed that male participants have a stronger community feeling ( X =25.66) than female participants ( X = 24.11). The t-test results are presented in the Table 2.264