Investigation of Administrators’ Opinions on Virtual Classroom Teacher Applications

Today, technological developments and advancements have taken their place in education as in every aspect of life. Face-to-face education in the past has been replaced by online education and hybrid education today. In this context, artificial intelligence applications, which are still in their early stages but will make their presence felt in the future, and virtual classrooms and virtual classroom teachers are also increasing their importance along with these applications. Under these thoughts, the aim of the research is to examine the opinions of school administrators on virtual classroom teacher applications. Phenomenological case design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The study was conducted with 8 principals and 8 assistant principals from 16 different schools in Erzurum province. The “General Information Form” and “Interview Form” developed by the researchers were used as data collection tools in the study. As a result of the research, it was concluded that school administrators see virtual classroom teachers as teachers who teach in an online environment virtual classroom teachers will serve the provision of the infrastructure, real teachers care about emotions, and virtual teachers can be supervised with an implementing system. Based on the results obtained from the research, it virtual classrooms and virtual teachers and that necessary initiatives should be taken to provide the infrastructure. Keywords: Education, School, School principal, Virtual teacher Jel Classification Code: I20- Z00