Online Project Writing Training in Turkey: Virtual Learning Competencies and Participant Opinions

The study is an outcome of the Project Preparation Course Project II for graduate students in the field of Educational Sciences conducted within the framework of the TUBITAK (the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 2237-A program to support scientific educational activities. In this course, training is integrated to student-centered and work-integrated learning was conducted. This study aimed to improve the project writing skills of the participants with an online training that was designed to be integrated with work. The study group consists of 24 graduate students from 17 different universities who participated in the education program. The study is structured in the form of a one-group pre-test post-test experimental design. Data collection tools are the project-based virtual learning competencies scale and the structured interview form. Data analyzed by content analysis. At the end of the project, it was found that participants expressed positive opinions about all the processes involved in the project. At the end of the project, the work-integrated learning based online course was found to positively impact the participants' project based virtual learning competencies.