Education is one of the most important complement for people

from the beginning of humanity. With the globalizing and

fasten world, Distance Learning has gain an increasing importance.

Especially, information technologies increase the spread

and importance of the distance learning systems. Institutions

and universities have started using distance learning systems day

by day to reach the potential students from all over the world.

Distance learning systems also decrease the costs of both institutions

and students with effective learning way. Distance learning

systems principally have four main supplements; cost, technology,

education and distance learning related supplements. Due to its

structure, the most important supplement of distance learning

systems is technology–based components which contains various

and complicated details. Most of these details looks totally

technical but they are more important actually, because of their

implementation to education, and connection with the people

using the system.

The main motivation of this book is to find out the most

important components of distance learning systems in Turkey

and prioritize them to lead the distance learning systems more

effective and better, both for the students and for the investors.

knowledge Within the current literature, none of the studies analyzed

all components and prioritize them for both Turkey and in

general, especially, educational components and technological

components together. With the help of the advanced internet

and digital technology, this is a challenging subject for the distance learning systems in today’s world. Educational institutions

cannot promote their distance learning programs only with their

instructors or course contents anymore like decades ago when

the technology is much worse than now. Classical promotion

materials do not take attention of the new generation who are

digital natives. Because, they have already known how to access

something or use technology, at least more than digital immigrants.

Especially with the accessible technology and accessible reputed

education contents with this technology all around the world, we

should observe the importance of education and distance learning

components together with technology components.

In today’s World, if students want to access a distance learning

system, they need only a computer and an internet access,

excluding course cost. So, students can access to any distance

learning system from all around the world easily. This situation

is also valid for distance learning institutions. Similarly, this is

valid for distance learning institutions. They can hire anybody

from all around the world without bringing them to the institution

with a perfect information technologies infrastructure. Investors

of distance learning systems and institutions in Turkey should

invest in and improve distance learning systems according to

the importance of all components of distance learning systems

together to get ahead of the world.