Evaluation of secondary school music courses taught wiht distance education in accordance wiht teachers' opinions

Although distance education may seem like a disadvantage at first glance, it is an innovative model that provides flexibility in terms of time and space.This flexibility offers equal opportunity to everyone who aims to learn. In the distance education process faced with the epidemic process, The current state of general music education has an important place. In this direction, when we look at the opinions of secondary school music teachers, in the distance education process, current state of secondary school music lesson and lesson preparation process, the status of the activities done in the distance education course, efficiency status of music, problems experienced during the lesson and it is aimed to determine the solution proposals for these problems. In the research using the case study design, one of the qualitative research methods, data were collected with a semi-structured interview form, the data obtained were analyzed by content analysis method. The study group of the research consists of 33 volunteer music teachers working at the secondary school level in 30 randomly selected secondary schools in the central districts of Şanlıurfa, affiliated to the Ministry of National Education. This study was carried out with the approval of Harran University Social and Human Sciences Ethics Committee, numbered 18.03.2022/33. As a result of the research, online course time is considered sufficient, the students' participation in the lesson is insufficient, that only the students who attend the course can fulfill the assigned homework, teachers are able to effectively use teaching methods and techniques, the lesson that affect positive factors preparation process allow efficient study, and that it is one of the advantages of the distance education system, It has been concluded that the most common technical problem in the distance education process is the internet, it has been found that besides technique other factors are effective in distance education, analysis and improvement should be made in music lessons to ensure efficiency in distance education, obligation to open cameras for students and teachers in lessons, providing a suitable environment for the teachers and the results of the provision of technological tools have been reached. Suggestions were made in line with the results obtained. Keywords: Music Education, General Music Education, Distance Education