Suggestions aimed at evalution and development of Open Education Two Year Degree Social Sciences Programme

Programme evaluation processes throughout education is important not only by supplying detailed information about programme components to the administrator and executives during the programme evaluation process but also by supplying active roles to the students who are one of the most basic constituents of the programme during the programme evaluation process. From this necessity on, this research has been launched with the aim of Open Education Faculty Two Year Degree Social Sciences Programme's being evaluated according to the views of the students. In this research done in 2013-2014 education-(instruction) year, individual scanning model which is one of the scanning models has been used. Through this individual scanning model, students', who are getting educated in Social Sciences Programme, personal informations, their views about this programme and expectations have been described. In total, 1168 freshmen and second year students who are getting educated in Anadolu University Open Education Faculty Two Year Degree Social Sciences Programme have composed the study circle of the research. All the students have been accessed throughout the survey created on website. Out of the 815 students who have logged in the survey system, 493 of them have answered the survey questions. The datum needed for the aim of the research have been collected by the researcher through 'Social Sciences Programme Evaluation Survey', prepared to be applied to the students. At the end of the research, it has been found out that students have positive views about the programme in general. Students have, in general, evaluated the aims and the extent of the programme, their books which are one of the most important components of the programme and the evaluation applications, in a positive way. On the other hand, it has been found that e education settings have not been used by the majority of the students. Among the reasons why students are enrolled to the programme, the first reason is to be promoted in their work, but the lectures in the programme have not been sufficient enough to get a new job. Most of the students have told that the contents of the books are too long and too detailed. Besides, end of the unit questions have been found to be numerically insufficient. The necessity for the permanent development and extension of Social Sciences Programme in particular has been mentioned by the majority of the students. Keywords : Open education faculty, program evaluation, social sciences programme