{"title":"The Opinions regarding the Program of the Students Going Abroad in the Scope of the Erasmus+ Exchange Program","authors":"Mehmet Kucukcene, Sait Akbasli","doi":"10.14689/ENAD.26.7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The present research aims to examine the opinions of Erasmus+ exchange program students going abroad with the program as part of their experiences. Descriptive phenomenology, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in this study. Thus, open-ended opinion forms, which were answered by 14 students who went abroad in the 2016-2017 academic years with the Erasmus+ exchange program were analyzed by content analysis. The data obtained from the participants were handled under three themes: information acquisition and application; overseas process; contribution, expectation and suggestion. The findings obtained in this study suggest that it is important for the coordinators to keep the interaction with the students at the highest level to run the program in a healthier way. Besides, it is recommended that informative meetings are held at universities about exchange programs for students and that the peers participating in the Erasmus+ exchange program are given a voice in the meetings.","PeriodicalId":46491,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Journal of Educational Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2021-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Eurasian Journal of Educational Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14689/ENAD.26.7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The present research aims to examine the opinions of Erasmus+ exchange program students going abroad with the program as part of their experiences. Descriptive phenomenology, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in this study. Thus, open-ended opinion forms, which were answered by 14 students who went abroad in the 2016-2017 academic years with the Erasmus+ exchange program were analyzed by content analysis. The data obtained from the participants were handled under three themes: information acquisition and application; overseas process; contribution, expectation and suggestion. The findings obtained in this study suggest that it is important for the coordinators to keep the interaction with the students at the highest level to run the program in a healthier way. Besides, it is recommended that informative meetings are held at universities about exchange programs for students and that the peers participating in the Erasmus+ exchange program are given a voice in the meetings.
期刊介绍:
Eurasian Journal of Educational Research (EJER) is a peer-reviewed, an international and interdiscilinary journal publishing original research articles and significant contributions on education and educational sciences . The journal is a valuable resource for teachers, counselors, supervisors, educational administrators, school principals, educational policy makers, curriculum planners, and educational researchers as they consider the structure of tomorrow''s educational system. EJER publishes research employing a variety of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research and approaches in all areas in the field of education and educational sciences. The goal of the journal is to increase understanding of learning and teaching in eraly childhood, primary, secondary, vocational and higher education in order to to contribute to the improvement of educational processes and outcomes.