Internet-Based learning from the perspective of employees: A study on analysis of awareness, use case and effectiveness
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The increasing importance of knowledge, rapid developments in information and communication technologies caused changes on habits in the field of work, academic, social lives and so on. Education is one of these areas. Today, information technology products and internet have become indispensable components of the education. Also different educational terms come into our lives such as e-learning, mobile learning, r-learning. In addition to this, especially corporate companies are providing trainings to their employees through learning management systems contributes to the improvement of its employees in both the professional and technical issues. However, awareness of these developments, usage of internet and information technologies and attitude towards the new learning methods are interesting topics. This study aims to find out results such as how and how much individuals benefit from internet and available technological devices for their education, in particular do they use mobile devices, are aware of them and what their opinions about new education methods are. Within the scope of this study, we used a questionnaire consisting of two different types of questions as multiple choices and five point Likert scale to learn demographic information, internet and computer usage in individual education and attitudes towards internet based and mobile education. The study group includes 34 people use computers and the internet, work in different sectors, are randomly chosen. The study results will be shared in full text. For the analysis of the questionnaire frequency, percentage and certain statistical methods are used. Keywords: Internet based learning, mobile learning, learning methods, employees
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KOCOGLU, Fatma Önay et al.
Internet-Based learning from the perspective of employees: A study on analysis of awareness, use case and effectiveness.
World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, [S.l.], v. 8, n. 1, p. 01-09, may 2016.
ISSN 1309-0348.
Available at: <http://sproc.org/ojs/index.php/wjet/article/view/494>. Date accessed: 29 nov. 2017.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18844/wjet.v8i1.494.
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