Investigating students’ experience of online/distance education with photovoice during COVID-19

Subaşı Y., Adalar H., Tanhan A., Arslan G., Allen K., Boyle C., ...Daha Fazla

Distance Education, cilt.44, sa.3, ss.563-587, 2023 (SSCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 44 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/01587919.2023.2227140
  • Dergi Adı: Distance Education
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, Educational research abstracts (ERA), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.563-587
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: COVID-19, ecological systems theory, online distance education, online interpretative phenomenological analysis (OIPA), online photovoice (OPV), university students
  • Bilecik Şeyh Edebali Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study used online photovoice to study students’ perceptions of online/distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic. It aimed to (a) find the factors that facilitated and impeded online/distance education during the pandemic and (b) determine to which level of ecological systems theory participants attributed facilitators and barriers. We utilized community-based participatory research as the theoretical framework, based on the ecological systems theory. The participants consisted of 119 university students. We used online interpretative phenomenological analysis to analyze the data and found 12 facilitating themes in favor of online education (e.g., technology, 31%; home study comfort, 23%; with family, 17%). In terms of barriers to online education, 14 main themes emerged (e.g., lack of finance, 28%; Internet problems, 22%). Participants attributed facilitators and barriers respectively to the following levels of ecological systems theory: individual/intrapsychic (50%, 51%), microsystem (56%, 58%), exosystem (38%, 43%), and macrosystem (25%, 45%).