Opinions of Faculty of Sport Sciences Faculty Members on Distance Education Process: Swot Analysis Technique

This research was conducted to examine the opinions of the faculty members working in the Faculty of Sport Sciences about the distance education process in terms of SWOT strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, threats analysis. Case study design was used in the research. Data were collected from 42 faculty members working in the Faculty of Sport Sciences in Istanbul province with a semistructured interview form. After the data collection, strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities were identified by using SWOT analysis. In the study, it was concluded that the strengths experienced by the faculty members in the distance education process were mostly the elimination of additional expenditure items such as transport, accommodation, nutrition, which would be made by families, the weaknesses were mostly the inability to teach practical courses, the opportunities were the use of innovative technologies and the faculty member had to improve himself/herself, and the threats were the inability to carry out measurement and evaluation (exams) properly. In addition, in the results of the research, it was seen that in the strengths, benefiting from educational opportunities from different places; in the weaknesses, low participation in the lesson, lack of physical assistance; in the opportunities, the opportunity of teachers to develop new methods and materials; in the threats, low quality of education was found to be important.