JEMS Maritime Sci. 2023; 11(2): 86-97 | DOI: 10.4274/jems.2023.92688

Maritime Students’ Assessment of Distance Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Elif Arslan, Emin Deniz Özkan
Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Maritime, Department of Marine Transportation Engineering, Ýzmir, Türkiye

The coronavirus diseases-2019 (COVID-19) outbreak emerged in late 2019 and rapidly spread worldwide, resulting in a pandemic. The pandemic has had negative impacts on various aspects of life, particularly health and the economy. Education sector has been severely affected, as well. In Türkiye, as in many countries, face-to-face classes were replaced with distance education as a safety measure against the pandemic. Maritime education places significant emphasis on providing practical, hands-on training to its students. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a shift to distance education was required, including the teaching of applied courses in this field of study. In this regard, revealing the evaluations of maritime students on distance education is an important issue that needs to be studied. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the opinions of maritime faculty students in Türkiye regarding the technical aspects and learning process of the distance education that they received during the pandemic. To this end, the “Distance Education Evaluation Scale” was administered to students via an online platform, and the resulting data were analyzed using SPSS Statistics 25. The results show that male students have a more positive evaluation of distance education than female students. Those who participate in distance education by using mobile phones have a more negative evaluation of distance education, while successful students have a more positive evaluation of distance education. Finally, there was no significant difference according to universities and classes.

Keywords: Distance education, COVID-19, Maritime education, Maritime students

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