Designing and Implementing WebCT-Based Courses Online: Distance English Language Teacher Training Program (DELTT) Model

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Many undergraduate and graduate courses in Open Education Faculty (OEF) of Anadolu University in Turkey have been delivered for over the two decades. Most of distance programs have been distributed via traditional distance education approaches and philosophy, such as TV and radio programs, printed materials, etc. Today, however, OEF has been switching the Internet, World Wide Web (WWW) and their related technologies as a new understanding and approach in distance education. Distance English Language Teacher Training Program (DELTT) is a new interactive distance learning model for Preservice English Teacher Program in OEF. The pilot study has been conducted to integrate courses into the curriculum. For that reason, Introduction to Linguistics and Language Acquisition courses in the DELTT Project were chosen to deliver via WebCT during the pilot project. This is an action research which has two main purposes: 1) to introduce the curriculum, instruction, learning materials and self-testing system of the two WebCT-based courses, and 2) to analyze and describe the online workers’ (administrative faculties, technology support staff and online instructional designers) experiences, perspectives and feelings toward WebCT-based distance online education in the DELTT Project.