INVESTIGATION OF THE DIGITIZATION LEVELS OF ACADEMIC STAFF IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL “KOCAELI UNIVERSITY CASE”

Abstract

It is of great importance to determine the extent to which academicians use information technologies and digital technologies
in their education and training process, their academic studies and social lives, and how much space they devote to digital
technologies in their lives and their thoughts on these technologies.
The aim of this research is to determine the digitalization levels of the faculty members in vocational schools. The data of the
research were collected from 48 faculty members working in 3 vocational schools of Kocaeli University. In the research,
academic digitization scale developed by Koç (2018) was used as a data collection tool. The data were evaluated in SPSS 16.0.
It was concluded that the digitalization levels of the instructors working at the Vocational School were high.