Digital content in graduate level in Turkey: A content analysis of twenty years

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine graduate level theses that focus on digital content and completed between 1989 and 2019 in Turkey. Examination of the theses with the specified categories will show us their purpose and scope and which result has been achieved. We believe that this study will shed light on researchers to show how the trends emerged in terms of educational digital content. In order to identify the theses, the Dissertation Database of Turkish Council of Higher Education was searched by using digital content, digital material, digital story, and animation as keywords. As a result of the search, 150 studies were identified. Among them, 15 studies were dropped out due to their irrelevance, which left 135 theses for evaluation. For data analysis, descriptive content analysis method and categorical analysis technique were employed. The theses were reviewed based on publication year, institute, university type, subject, research method, research design, participants, data collection tools, and target audience. The descriptive results were provided in tables. Theses on digital content started to gain intensity mainly in 2000s and these studies were mostly carried out in the field of engineering and fine arts. After 2010, more research with the focus on digital content and animations was conducted in the field of education. The results revealed that most of them completed for master's programs at the educational sciences institutes between 2013 and 2019. In the field of Turkish education, similar studies, specifically on digital stories, were conducted after 2015. As a result, this study sheds light on graduate students in terms of the gap in the literature regarding digital content.

Turkish Teachers’ Views on Educational Digital Games

“…Additionally, it is suggested to utilize ICT and digital materials in the implementation of the curriculum. There is a limited number of studies examining the usage of educational digital games in Turkish courses, and also recent studies have been focusing on this issue (Özcan & Yavuz, 2020;Aşcı, 2019). Proposing an appropriate language education to today's children, who are compatible with the individuals aimed in Turkish education's general objectives and taking advantage of their high qualities seem to be very crucial.…”

“…With the digitalization of the in-print materials such as book, magazine, newspaper, etc., students' motivation and interests toward reading are increased; the digital applications might help them to develop a reading habit since they are able to reach books easily (Özerbaş & Öztürk, 2017). The implications for the usage of electronic storybooks in Turkish courses and the number of these kinds of studies have raised recently (Özcan & Yavuz, 2020;Dayan & Girmen, 2018). Because of the e-storybooks used in Turkish courses, students' reading and listening skills, namely comprehension skills have been developed with an increase in their vocabulary, and also, their writing skills have been improved since they have the opportunity to recognize spelling and punctuation rules (Becel, 2013;Işık, 2013;Bal, 2019).…”

Effect of cloud computing on digital content skills and technology acceptance among secondary school students

“…It also provides the advantage of compatibility with the student's learning speed and the extent of their control over their learning. It requires only an access tool, Internet access, and appropriate digital content (Özcan and Yavuz, 2020).…”