Setting and sampling
Participants were taught the “Introduction to Computers” course entirely via the Internet using a learning management system. Students only came to the campus at the end of the semester for a proctored final exam. These students did not meet on campus until the final exam. The participants in the study were enrolled in the Business Administration Department of the Distance Education Program at a higher education institution in Turkey. Students from the same department were divided into two groups, namely experimental (C1) and control (C2). The study commenced with 75 students in each group, 150 in total. While participation was obligatory with given assignments, almost half of the students dropped out of the study soon after it started. The final number of participants was 78. Of these, 43 (23% male, 77% female) comprised the C1 group and 35 (23% male, 77% female) comprised C2. The final grouping was therefore equal in gender distribution (Table 1).
research has been made on students’ problem-solving processes using asynchronous tools. Believed to meet this need to some extent, this
study aimed to answer the following questions