Chapter 5 Digitalization of Higher Education in Turkey and COVID-19
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Abstract
The trust in education perhaps was higher in earlier times when people had lower literacy rates. Whereas the increased capacity, systems, methodology, techniques of the modern world help education in various ways to be valuable, there seems to be some loss regarding motivation and participation. Thus, education needs to be restructured, functionalized, and repositioned into the digital world specifically due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This research looks at how Turkey’s transition to digital higher education has been reported in newspapers during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also raises concerns about the value of education in the twenty-first century, as well as values re-positioned in a digital world with modern supply and demand relationships in the context of the learning vs. knowledge dilemma. To collect data for this study, qualitative and quantitative methods were used to focus on the cause and effect relationships of educational improvements, as well as negotiation and persuasion mechanisms involving policy decisions and public reactions. The news coverage highlights how educational ideals are changing right before the entire population, and how more participatory education, digital education, and inclusive education permeate all levels.