Perceptions of teachers of online teaching and learning during pandemic

Abstract

It has been more than 1.5 years since the pandemic and quarantine process due to the Covid-19 virus began. With the increase in cases, one of the measures taken was the closure of schools and the transition to distant learning. One of the occupational groups that had to adapt the fastest in this process was teachers. In a process that they had almost never experienced before, they continued to both lead their own lives and work for the education of the students they were responsible for. It would not be wrong to say that they have experienced a very rapid adaptation under these difficult conditions. Especially in these days when the use of online lessons has increased tremendously with the COVID-19 epidemic, the efforts of the instructors who encountered these systems for the first time to produce their own solutions, both technically and pedagogically, are admirable. The main purpose of this study is to reveal metaphoric perceptions of teachers of distant learning during COVID-19 pandemic . Generating the knowledge about this critical period has given us insight that can be useful. I hope it provides a useful information and way of thinking for readers as well.