Examination of physical education teachers' attitudes towards distance education (example of Elazig province)

The concept of distance education has become important in our lives with the Covid 19 Pandemic. Distance education, which has been started to be implemented at all levels of education, has been examined in every aspect by the relevant researchers, and many positive and negative aspects have been studied. There are many studies on teachers and students. Many researchers have been working on teacher branches. There is no study on physical education teachers in the literature. For this reason, the importance of the study has increased the level of impact. The aim of our study is to determine the attitudes of physical education teachers towards distance education. The descriptive survey method was used in the research. Within the scope of the research, 181 physical education teachers working in the province of Elazig in the 2020-2021 academic year were formed by random sampling method. In order to obtain statistical data on physical education teachers, a personal information form and an attitude scale towards distance education developed by Ağır were used. As a result of the research, the attitudes of physical education teachers towards Distance Education are at the level of indecision with an average of 2.85±0.48. It was concluded that the female teachers who participated in the research had higher attitudes towards distance education, who had a computer and computer internet connection, had 6-10 hours of internet use, had knowledge about distance education, and had 0-10 years of service. As a result, physical education teachers' attitudes remained at a low level due to the fact that the course format did not adapt to the distance education model. It has been found that the attitudes of teachers who have computer use skills and a certain level of computer use technology towards distance education are positive. The inadequacy of the technological infrastructure of distance education negatively affected the attitude towards distance education. Keywords: Elazig, Distance Education, Attitude, Physical Education Teachers