An Online Interaction Experience within Distance Education: A Course Design Proposal for the Basic Design Course of the Department of Architecture

Abstract

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which was declared as a pandemic in 2020 by the World Health Organization, many educational institutions around the world started distance education. However, since distance education is an unusual field for the stakeholders of education, this sudden change created a chaos both for institutions in terms of providing the necessary infrastructure and for educators in terms of redesigning instruction techniques and tools. In this article, it is aimed to discuss a distance education course design proposal for basic design course, which is taught generally in the first two semesters within a studio environment at the department of architecture, through a) student opinions that were obtained through an online questionnaire that were conducted at the end of the semester, evaluations made by the authors about b) the process outputs and achievements and c) the tools. The results show that, the distance education course design proposal for the basic design course of the department of architecture, which requires collaboration and interaction between students and instructors, evaluated as being efficient both in terms of the tools and methods used and in terms of creating an online collaborative workspace.