Research Trends in Turkish Distance Education: A Content Analysis of Dissertations, 1986-2014

• Authors: Aras Bozkurt , Evrim Genc Kumtepe , Alper Tolga Kumtepe , İrem Erdem Aydın , Müjgan Bozkaya , Cengiz Hakan Aydın
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents a content analytic approach on doctoral dissertations in the field of distance education in Turkish Higher Education context from the years of 1986 through 2014. A total of 61 dissertations were examined to explore keywords, academic discipline, research areas, theoretical/conceptual frameworks, research designs, research models, tests and analyses, data collection tools, participants, variables/research interests, and leading contributor institutions. It is believed that this study can be beneficial to the field of distance education in Turkish context to identify research trends and set a research agenda by exploring dissertations that were published between 1986 and 2014.

Keywords

EN

Turkish distance education; open and distance learning; research trends; dissertations; content analysis

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 1-21

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2016-01-26

Contributors

author

Aras Bozkurt

• Anadolu University [], Turkey

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Evrim Genc Kumtepe

• Anadolu University [], Turkey

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Alper Tolga Kumtepe

• Anadolu University [], Turkey

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İrem Erdem Aydın

• Anadolu University [], Turkey

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Müjgan Bozkaya

• Anadolu University [], Turkey

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Cengiz Hakan Aydın

• Anadolu University [], Turkey

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eurodl-2015-0010