TECHNOLOGY AND ACCREDITATION PROCESS IN EDUCATION OF COMMUNICATION

Abstract

Technological development has been a profound effect on the communication field. Global mass media and electronic mass media has undergone a radical change. Global technological development has included terms such as new media, digital media, social media in our lives. Besides, media and content of it have had a transformation. This transformation changes our social and individual lifestyles and our communication habits. Technological development in the field of mass communication also changes the education of communication in higher education. Education of communication aims to educate well-equipped graduates who can be positioned according to new professions emerged in the communication sector. This change occurs within the frame of quality in the education of communication and accreditation. Quality and accreditation studies conducted at an international level are also adopted in Turkey, and thus transformation process has started. Opportunities brought by technological development are used in higher education within the context of student, academic member, and sector. Student profile and communication skills in the education of communication are changing. Universities raising scientists in higher education are carrying on their studies regarding forming an academic member profile adopting and using the opportunities of technology. Higher education works with harmony with communication sector to produce equipped graduates in line with the development of technology. Updating schedules using technological innovations, adding new courses, preparing new contents for course contents, using new tools for courses with technological opportunities are discussed in the education of communication. Each transformation's beginning, adopting, experiencing, and concluding become possible in a particular process by overcoming the featured problems. This study investigates quality and accreditation studies within the context of changes brought by technological development in the education of communication.