Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, cilt.3, sa.7, ss.28-36, 2017 (Düzenli olarak gerçekleştirilen hakemli kongrenin bildiri kitabı)
Together with the development of technology, we know that our lives have changed in many ways. One of the most affected and the
changing process is education. In the education process, it is important to make sure that all members of society benefit from it. We also
know that visually impaired individuals are an important part of our society. In Turkey, the use of virtual platforms in terms of education by
this segment and improving themselves is considered important. The evaluation of the tendency of visually impaired individuals to use
virtual environments is specially required for developing software applications the identification of these tendencies, evaluation and use in
virtual applications is a remarkable work. Therefore, it is important to identify the difficulties and expectations that may occur while
accessing information with virtual platforms. In this research, first visually-impaired individuals’ tendencies to use technology was identified
and later, the expectations and difficulties they face while using electronics and computer-supported platforms have been analyzed. Data
was gathered through survey model in this research. During data collection phase, resulting from the tendency of impaired individuals to
hide themselves. Snowball sampling method with 41 participants was applied through face to face and online query. The findings were
analyzed with the Statistical analysis method and presented in the form of a table.
Keywords: Education, visually impaired people, e-learning.