Opinions of Science Teachers on the Status of EBA among Digital Education Platforms

The importance of technology has become increased and rapidly affected all living spaces in our age. The development of technology is much faster than in past centuries. The digital revolution that has taken place has caused many positive and negative influences in education. Various and comprehensive projects are being put into practice for the adaptation of education and technology in Turkey. The EBA (Educational Information Network), social education platform, is recognized as one of the leaders of these projects. Such a significant investment of public enterprise is seen worthy to investigate according to its development, durability, competitiveness, and usefulness. The opinions of the science teachers interviewed about EBA have been tried to be revealed with this study. The aim of this study is to reveal the technology-friendly science teachers' comparisons of Educational Information Network with other digital education platforms in terms of content, visuality, curriculum conformity, usability. Trying to understand comparatively why the teachers use which software, the positive and negative aspects of EBA can be seen. The use of technology in education takes its place among the essential components of educational institutions day by day. In such an environment, it is also important that what teachers think about the EBA application, which can be considered as the first comprehensive initiative by the Ministry of National Education. Evaluating the perspectives of science teachers about EBA application can also benefit upon the development and continuity of EBA. In this study, interview technique, one of the qualitative research data collection methods, was used. Purposeful sampling method was used to interview. Participants of the research are 20 science teachers who work in various cities (Tokat, Sivas, Amasya, Erzincan, Ordu and Manisa). While choosing the participants, teachers who use technology effectively, have mastered the technological tools and received in-service training about EBA was tried to be preferred. Some of the participating teachers have the ability to design digital content. Semi-structured interview form was used as data collection tool. Pilot application of the interview was done with 3 science teachers working in Tokat. After the pilot application, changes were made to the interview forms in line with the opinions received and the forms were presented to the experts for their validity. Interview questions were sent to 5 specialists who were working on the field and the interview form was corrected according to their opinions.