Opinions of faculty of education fine arts department lecturers on distance education during the pandemic process

The pandemic, which affected the world in 2020, caused changes in education as well as in all areas of life. In our country, it was deemed necessary to start distance education in order to ensure the sustainability of education by suspending face-to-face education in this process. In the research, it is aimed to determine the views of Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University Fine Arts Education Department instructors, who provide distance education during the pandemic process, during the pandemic process. This research is a qualitative research and data were collected by semi-structured interview method, one of the qualitative data collection methods. The findings were described in depth with content analysis. The research was carried out with a total of 20 instructors, 10 people from the Painting Education Department and 10 people from the Music Education Department, who took part in the distance education program in the Faculty of Education, Fine Arts Education Department of Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University. Data on the problems experienced in distance education will be obtained with a structured interview form. Instructor interview form consisting of 18 questions, 9 demographic and 9 research questions, was used. With the findings obtained, codes, categories and themes were created, and the codes created by another field expert were used in order to ensure encoder reliability, the formula of Miles and Huberman (1994). Inter-coder reliability was found to be 89%. As a result of the research, it has been determined that distance education generally has problems arising from technological and technical inadequacies. Apart from the technological inadequacies, the findings related to the problem originating from the students were obtained. It is thought that the research will be an important data source for researchers and practitioners and will contribute to the field.