Evaluating the Effectiveness of Virtual Education on Health Care Management Students

Subject Areas : medical documents

salar ghanbary ¹ , hadi rezghi shirsavar ² , mohammad sadegh ziaee ³ , maryam Mosleh ⁴

1 - Ph.D Department of Educational Management, Tehran West Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Tehran West Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Professor, Department of Management, Tehran West Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Associate Professor, Department of Management, Tehran West Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-09-18 Accepted : 2019-02-23 Published : 2019-07-23

Keywords: Health Services Management, E-learning, Effectiveness, Evaluation,

Abstract :

Introduction: Nowadays, with the advent of the e-learning system, other previous ideas about the availability of education and education have disappeared. Now, with the arrival of universities and virtual education centers everyone can use these facilities at any time and place. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the Effectiveness of Virtual Education among the student of health services management. Method: This research is a descriptive survey of type of data collection method. The survey population consists of all health care management students of Tehran University in 1396. The sample size was 165 from the Morgan table, which was distributed by simple random sampling of the questionnaires, due to the non-widespread community of the study population. The instrument used in this research is a researcher-made questionnaire of 30 items. The validity of the tool has been verified as structural and its reliability has been calculated by computing the Cronbach's alpha in a total of 0.854. Results: Effectiveness of virtual education was evaluated in desirable students. The components of system quality (mean 17.77), facilitator factors (mean 10.84), in terms of teacher quality (mean 24.76), user inclination factors (mean 15.94), e-learning success (mean 15.94) are in a favorable situation, and in dimensions The quality of the information and the content of the courses and in the interaction between the teacher and the student were not evaluated against other appropriate factors. Conclusion: Considering the existing conditions and the increasing spread of information technology and the satisfaction of the major part of the student community from e-learning services, the quantitative and qualitative expansion of the necessary planning in universities Country.

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