What is Vocational Development Courses

This chapter will determine the challenges of motivating students in online learning platforms based on Turkish teachers' experience. The study was designed in phenomenology, one of the qualitative research methods. The study group consisted of 18 Turkish Anatolian high school teachers. Data in the study was collected through semi-structured interviews. Teachers were given five open-ended questions developed by the researcher, and data were analyzed through content analysis. At the end of the study, it was determined that teachers had teacher-, student- and learning environment-related difficulties, and had problems motivating students online. In this respect, it is believed that the online learning process, an alternative to face-to-face learning, should be improved by students' needs for sustainable teaching. Moreover, vocational development courses should improve teachers' proficiencies in online environments.