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

Aras Bozkurt; Evrim Genc Kumtepe; lper Tolga Kumtepe; İrem Erdem Aydın; Müjgan Bozkaya; Cengiz Hakan Aydın

doi:10.1515/eurodl-2015-0010

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

European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning

Volume 18 (2015): Issue 2

By: Aras Bozkurt, Evrim Genc Kumtepe, lper Tolga Kumtepe, İrem Erdem Aydın, Müjgan Bozkaya and Cengiz Hakan Aydın

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|Jan 2016

Abstract

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.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eurodl-2015-0010 | Journal eISSN: 1027-5207

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Published on: Jan 26, 2016

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Keywords:

Turkish distance education,

open and distance learning,

research trends,

dissertations,

content analysis

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