Abstract:
Individuals comprising the communities of today need to be have more knowledge, skills and talents in comparison with the past to keep up with the new age and maintain their lives. It is only possible to make the individuals get these information, skills and talents with the application of the methods related to the new teaching and learning processes. Pedagogical and technological improvements arousing in the late years both affect the human life deeply and most importantly learning and teaching fields. In addition, technology is considered to be very important in terms of educational processes that help individuals to solve problems encountered in life, pioneer scientific innovations and facilitate life in one part, as well as in school climate. The aim of this research is to investigate the relationships between e-learning and cooperative learning attitudes of the high school students. Attitude scales of e-learning and cooperative learning were utilized asa data collection tools in the research. The sample of the investigation comprises of 415 high school students from three schools in the province of Sakarya whom are 215 female and 200 male. The problem of the investigation was analysed by the use of "Pearson Moment Correlation" and "Structural Equation Model". Results show that there is a positive and significant relationship between the scores of students' e-learning attitude and the scores of students' cooperative learning attitude. Moreover, the findings gathered from Structural Equation Model demonstrate that coopeartive learning predicts positively the sub-dimensions of e-learning. These results were discussed in frame of the related literature.
