Identifying the effective factors of improving the quality of virtual education based on the lived experiences of elementary school teachers in the education of the Corona era

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Alireza  Badeleh ¹ (Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran.)
Neda  Shamloo ² (Master of Educational Technology, Central Tehran Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2022-06-22 Accepted : 2023-04-15 Published : 2023-02-20

Keywords: teachers, lived experiences, virtual education, Optimization,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to Identifying the effective factors of improving the quality of virtual education based on the lived experiences of elementary school teachers in the education of the Corona era. This research was mixed in terms of practical purpose and performance. The statistical population of this study included qualitative teachers, experts and specialists in educational technology and virtual education, and in the quantitative part included all primary teachers in districts 16 and19 of Tehran. Of this number, in the qualitative section by snowball sampling method, 22 expert teachers and experts in educational technology and virtual education and in the quantitative section by systematic sampling method, 144 primary school teachers in 16th and 19th districts of Tehran as Research samples were selected. The research tool included a researcher-made questionnaire based on codes extracted from interviews with 90questions. Confirmatory factor analysis(CFA) with axial covariance approach by Lisrel 8.8 software was used to analyze the data and sample test and Friedman ranking test by spss25 software were used to examine the research questions and hypotheses. The results showed that the components of teachers, students, educational dimensions, educational structure, content and family are the most important components of Identifying the effective factors of improving the quality of virtual education based on the lived experiences of elementary school teachers in the education of the Corona era and the component Content with an average (3.77) and students with an average (3.16) at a level less than 0.01, respectively, had the most and the least role in Identifying the effective factors of improving the quality of virtual education based on the lived experiences of elementary school teachers in the education of the Corona era.

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