A STUDY ON THE OPINIONS OF TEACHERS IN TURKEY ABOUT THE USE OF NEW GENERATION TE

The share of information and communication technologies used in education is increasing day by day depending on the development of science and technology in the world.In Turkey, information and communication technologies and digital applications have gained momentum with the Fatih Project.In the continuation of the Fatih project, educational applications such as e-School, Mebbis, EBA, BA, OGM Material, e-Publishing, Open Education, Religious Education were implemented.In this study, it was tried to examine the perspectives of teachers on digital teaching tools in the OGM Material Education Platform.It was aimed to determine to what extent teachers use digital teaching tools in the OGM Material Education Platform during their teaching activities and what kind of attitude they have towards the tools in this platform.The study, designed in the quantitative research method, was carried out in the screening model.While the universe of this research, which was conducted in the 2023-2024 academic year, consisted of teachers in Turkey, the sample consisted of 513 teachers participating from 19 cities in different regions, with maximum diversity being prioritized.The collected data were analyzed with content and descriptive analysis, and especially the answers given to open-ended questions were tabulated with direct quotes.Since normality conditions were provided in the data obtained from the teachers, Independent Sample t Test was used in the comparison of paired groups, and One-Way Analysis of Variance-Anova was used in the comparison of more than two groups.According to the results of the research, teachers use the digital teaching tools in the OGM Material Education Platform in their lessons and recommend them to their students.The richness of the content and the fact that it appeals to different types of skills are welcomed positively by the teachers.While the quantitative findings of the research show that the OGM Material Education Platform perspectives change among the teachers according to the variables of gender and school structure, no difference was detected in the other variables.While the teachers find the OGM Material Education Platform useful, important and succesful, they also criticize it for some shortcomings.In order for the OGM Material Education Platform to be better known and used efficiently, the teachers made suggestions such as updating and enriching the content, increasing the number of questions, adding some new sections, reducing workloads and especially planning in-service training activities.In line with the quantitative and qualitative data obtained at the end of the research, it can be said that the perspectives of teachers in Turkey towards the digital teaching tools in the OGM Material Education Platform are positive and similar, do not differ greatly according to the variables, and that they have a positive view of this platform, but some academic, technical and infrastructure updates need to be made.