Examining the Academic Counseling Courses as a Support Service in Distance Learning

Abstract

Academic counseling courses in which learner support is provided in a race-to-face environment maintain their importance and continuity since the beginning of the distance education system in Anadolu University Academic counseling courses which are carried out by getting support from various universities are conducted by bringing the instructors that ale experts in their fields and learners together in pre arranged places out of working hours (in the evening on weekdays and at weekends) in 74 town center I camels could mike use of this service by asking questions about the content they haven t understood discussing It and consulting the instructor In this study it is examined le uners attitudes towards learning environment and the instrctors behaviois in academic counseling The findings indicate that those who tend to academic counseling courses have positive attitudes towards both the instructor and the environment