Identification and Determination of the Relations and Ranking Factors Affecting the Success of E-Learning in the East Azerbaijan Payame Noor Universities
Subject Areas :
Educational management
Majid
Vahedi
1
(Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran)
Received: 2016-05-08
Accepted : 2016-09-04
Published : 2016-10-22
Keywords:
e-learning,
Interpretive Structural Modeling,
key success factors,
Abstract :
The purpose of the present study was to identify and determine the relations and ranking factors affecting the success of e-learning at university. The research method based on aim was a practical and based on data gathering was descriptive-analytical. The statistical population included managers and professors of Payame Noor University of East Azerbaijan province in the field of educational science and management. The statistical population was 45 people who were all selected as sample due to low number of the total population. For data collection, two researcher made questionnaires were used. Content validity of the questionnaire were reviewed and approved. To verify the reliability of the first questionnaire Cronbach alpha was calculated 0.96 and for the second questionnaire the test-retest correlation coefficient was estimated 0.93. To analyze the data one sample t test was used. In order to determine the relations and ranking factors, Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) were used. The results of the t test for identified 18 factors, indicated that all key factors influencing the success of e-learning in universities and their mean was above average. Also, the results of the ISM analysis and influence of power- dependence on factors showed that the factors are classified into four levels: Dependent, autonomous, linkage and intrusive which were located in connected and dependent clusters. Technical and support factors, management and strategic and educational factors and content, compared to other factors, exert more influence on the success of e-learning in universities.
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