Interactive Catalogue

Empowering Women through Online Education: A Case of North Cyprus

Literature Item

Author Information:

• Name: Figen Yaman Lesinger, Hülya Şenol & Nesrin Hürriyetoğlu (Universal Journal of Educational Research)
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: https://www.emu.edu.tr/stafffile/KXJYWSA.pdf

Abstract:

Online learning increases the chances of women's access to education, it helps women achieve their educational goals, and it is seen as a potential solution to help women achieve their educational goals and ensure social, cultural, and economic development of women worldwide. Because online learning provides flexible learning opportunities open to everyone with freedom of time and space and facilitates education with the use of technology. In the light of the literature review and because of the scarcity of research about the education of women in North Cyprus, this quantitative study aimed to determine the educational needs of women living in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Data was collected from 500 volunteers randomly selected women living in Nicosia and Famagusta cities of North Cyprus. 80.6% of the participants require receiving English language education, 74.6% require social media education, 100% of the participants require receiving courses about baby care, child development, adolescence and mental health, 32.8% of them require healthy nutrition courses, 52.4% require ceramic courses 98.6% of them would like to take part in a choir to receive music education and 56.4% would like to receive sports training. 50.4% of the participants would like to receive their training at their home as online learning, 88.6% would like to receive their training before noon on weekdays and 69.0% of them prefer to receive synchronous bidirectional interactive type of online learning. In addition, 55.6% of the participants would like to receive this training for free.

Keywords:

online learning, online education, educational goals, survey, study

Publication Date:

Sept. 27, 2022

Source Specificity:

Initiative/Practice/Project/Programme/Case Studies, Training Material and Tools

Website:

https://www.hrpub.org/download/20220930/UJER2-19527908.pdf

Power Domains:

Social

Methods Tools:

Awareness-raising, Monitoring

Country:

Cyprus

City:

unspecified

Implementation Scale:

National

Language:

English

Other Links:

DOI: 10.13189/ujer.2022.100802