Graduates of the Open Education Faculty in Turkey

Abstract

Anadolu University has more than 300,000 students which makes it the largest university in Turkey. Anadolu University established a distance education system in 1982 which has brought a new dimension to the Turkish education system. This study has analysed the characteristics of the Open Education Faculty students in the year 1985/86 when the faculty saw its first graduates. The study attempts to identify what social and personal characteristics the mass of Open Education Faculty graduates have.

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U. Demiray

Ugur Demiray graduated from Eski§ehir Academy of Commerce and Sciences in 1981. His research interests are in distance education. He completed his doctoral dissertation on the leisure time of distance education students in 1986. He was one of the directors of the Video Education Centre and editor‐in‐chief of Anadolu