http://wje.sciedupress.com World Journal of Education Vol. 10, No. 6; 2020 Education Viruses That Agonizing Education Systems Components İsmail Gelen1,* 1Department of Educational Science, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey *Correspondence: Department of Educational Sciences, Education Faculty, Ondokuz Mayıs University, 55200 Samsun, Turkey. E-mail:
[email protected]. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6669-8702 Received: September 8, 2020 Accepted: December 4, 2020 Online Published: December 20, 2020 doi:10.5430/wje.v10n6p97 URL: https://doi.org/10.5430/wje.v10n6p97 Abstract The purpose of the research is to define the factors that negatively affect education and learning process. Descriptive content analysis, one of the non-interactive qualitative research designs, was used to analyze the data. The analyses were conducted in six stages. First, aim, subject, and research questions were determined. Literature review was done according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the literature was read, the literature tags were created in the form of a table, the codes, categories, themes were created inductively according to the descriptive content analysis, and finally, analysis, association, interpretation, signification, and reporting were made. To this aim, 238 research conducted between 2014 and 2018 were jointly investigated within the framework of determined criteria. Correlation between raters was determined as rp= 0.94. According to the obtained results, variables that negatively affect learning related to technology and media may be indicated as phone, tablet, computer, game, internet, cartoons, social media, television, and TV series. Private teaching institutions and central examinations that negatively affect teaching are among the variables related to exams.