Electronic learning- virtual
H. Fardanesh; I. Ebrahimzade; M. R. Sarmadi; S. Omrani
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Abstract Background: Education is one of the fundamental pillars of developing capabilities, skills and competencies in various sectors of society. Results of studies e-learning compared with conventional teaching methods Help teachers and education stakeholders in designing, developing and implementing ...
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Abstract Background: Education is one of the fundamental pillars of developing capabilities, skills and competencies in various sectors of society. Results of studies e-learning compared with conventional teaching methods Help teachers and education stakeholders in designing, developing and implementing appropriate Learning courses for learners. The purpose of this study was to compare of conventional teaching methods (lecture-based) and e-learning methods using models, strategies and techniques of instructional design on learning and motivation of physicians and assistants on the topic of acute respiratory failure. Methods: In a quasi-experimental study, 60 General physician and assistant were assessed in two 30- staff groups by available sampling method based on the two instructional methods. Instructional material in the first group was based on traditional Continuing Medical Education on programs written syllabus and e-learning content development was based on the same programs with the integration of the instructional design and motivational design models. Results: Data were collected by pretest, posttest, and assessing motivation questionnaires. Based on the findings, There was no significant difference between pretest and posttest scores of the two groups (P>0.05) But after educational programs the motivation of physicians in the both groups had significant differences (P<0/05). Conclusion: The results of this study indicate a significant relationship of using instructional strategies and techniques designed to increase participants' motivation in electronic medical continuing education.
Electronic learning- virtual
I. Alizadeh
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Abstract: The main goal of this study was to investigate the role of computer-assisted concept mapping technique in improving learners’ autonomy and vocabulary retention. To this aim, different concepts along with related words to each concept were selected. Then, a general English test was administered ...
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Abstract: The main goal of this study was to investigate the role of computer-assisted concept mapping technique in improving learners’ autonomy and vocabulary retention. To this aim, different concepts along with related words to each concept were selected. Then, a general English test was administered as the pretest of the study and 28 learners falling within ± 1 SD were selected and were randomly assigned into two groups: control and experimental. Then, vocabulary items were taught to the groups based on two different teaching processes. The teaching process consisted of two phases for the experimental group. In the first phase, learners were to fill in the blanks in the concept mapping diagram with the target words of the study. In the second phase, learners were solicited to expand the diagram until they reach the main concepts or target words. Afterward, the learners were asked to exchange their diagrams with their peers via hyper-terminal program. On the other hand, vocabulary items were taught to the control group conventionally that is, by providing antonyms and synonyms. After the treatment period, immediate and delayed post-tests were administered to both groups. To analyze the collected data and to compare the performance of the two groups on the immediate and delayed post-tests, independent t-tests were run. Subsequently, an interview was done with the subjects in the experimental group to elicit their opinion about the computer–assisted concept mapping technique. The findings of the study showed that employing computer assisted concept mapping technique had affected learners’ autonomy and vocabulary retention positively. Moreover, the results of the interview signaled learners’ satisfaction with the technique.
Electronic learning- virtual
H. Mehdizadeh; M. Eslampanah; D. Payab
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Abstract: this study is carried out to investigate the effect of application of computer-assisted concept mapping on high school students’ immediate and long-term geology learning compared to conventional (Paper & pen) method. “pretest-post-test” semi experimental design with control ...
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Abstract: this study is carried out to investigate the effect of application of computer-assisted concept mapping on high school students’ immediate and long-term geology learning compared to conventional (Paper & pen) method. “pretest-post-test” semi experimental design with control group has been used at the study. Two classes of G11 grade students were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Participants in Experimental group were asked to create several concept-maps with use of C-map software on Geology topics and students in control group were asked to do the same with conventional (Paper & Pen) method of concept mapping. After performing pre-test, students in both groups were asked to create concept map diagrams for 6 sessions (2 hours length), and then immediately the first post-test and after three weeks the second post-test were performed to assess their immediate and long-term learning on geology concepts and topics. Three teacher-made tests each contain 25 questions were used to assess students’ learning. The cronbach alpha reliability coefficient was 0.79. Analysis of covariance and t-test were performed to analyze the data. Results revealed that the mean scores of both students’ immediate and long-term learning in experimental group were significantly higher than the control group. Considering Eta square coefficient indicates that implementing computer-assisted concept mapping in geology education can account for 33 percent of students’ immediate and 49 percent of their longterm learning. It can be concluded that computer-assisted mapping can improve students’ learning.
Electronic learning- virtual
F. Yazdani
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Nowadays, due to increase in developing of a virtual learning system, constructing of an instrument for assessing the effectiveness of them is a useful action. So, this study was carried out with the aim of presenting an approach for assessing the effectiveness of teachers’ virtual in-service training ...
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Nowadays, due to increase in developing of a virtual learning system, constructing of an instrument for assessing the effectiveness of them is a useful action. So, this study was carried out with the aim of presenting an approach for assessing the effectiveness of teachers’ virtual in-service training from teachers’ view. The method of research was descriptive and statistical population of it included all teachers that have passed at least one e-course from teachers’ virtual in-service training system. The total numbers of teachers were 2040 people. Therefore, the 325 subjects were participating in the study. The related data gathered through a researcher-made questionnaire was used. This instrument is an adoption from Levy’s questionnaire. For determination of validity of the questionnaire, the content and formal validity was used. So, the Lawshe’s Content Validity Ratio was applied. The Content Validity Ratio was 0.63. For proving the reliability of it, the Cronbach’s Alpha test was used. Thus, the alpha for both value and satisfaction constructs respectively was 0.92 and 0.90. The results showed that there wasn’t any significant correlation between value and satisfaction constructs. So, value & satisfaction are independent constructs. Furthermore, the results of data analysis of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the using from four components in assessing the effectiveness of teachers’ virtual in-service-training was correct. Also, this analysis showed the instrument has construct validity. Also, on the basis of factor analysis, we understand the categorizing of characteristics in four components, supporting system quality; content quality; availability; technology is accurate.
Electronic learning- virtual
H. Rangavar; S. khojaste Khosro
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The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of curriculum-based educational software (designing wood products) and practical workshop (technology of wood production) Wood and paper engineering technology - wooden structures industry with market needs of graduated people in this ...
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The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of curriculum-based educational software (designing wood products) and practical workshop (technology of wood production) Wood and paper engineering technology - wooden structures industry with market needs of graduated people in this field of study. The sample (100 participants) including under-graduate students (engineers) of Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University (SRTTU) were selected according to Cocral equation. A Questionnaire was distributed to gather data, based on Cronbach’s alpha, the reliability of the questionnaire turned out to be 0.875. The results showed that under-graduates believe that the course designing wood products, had significant impact on their career and market, so that the content of this course was the same with the new contents and the needs of industry. But technology production of wood product course (the curriculum-based one) that is based on making wooden products at the workshop showed little impact on the deployment of what they had learned in the industry. So there is a need for proper syllabus design in accordance with the needs of industry and codification as well as the equipment and facilities used in the education of industry and market for the teaching of this course.
Electronic learning- virtual
M. Rostami; S.S. Ayat; F. Saghari; F. Yaghoobi
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The purpose of this paper is to propose a method to anticipate students' proceed and to enhance their learning efficiency and success in a learning environment, using data mining. Based on library and survey searching methods, as well as consulting with experts, some effective features in students' learning ...
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The purpose of this paper is to propose a method to anticipate students' proceed and to enhance their learning efficiency and success in a learning environment, using data mining. Based on library and survey searching methods, as well as consulting with experts, some effective features in students' learning are identified and then using feature selection method, the most efficient ones are chosen. To clarify the relation between selected features, fuzzy clustering is applied to them. In the second phase of the research, scores of the students of Educational environment study, are predicted, using data mining. Variables taken are midterm and final scores and the average score of selected units in one semester by students studying there between 2006 (1385) and 2012 (1391). According to the achieved methods we can guide each student from the beginning of the semester in line with their effective features, and based on scores gained during the semester we can inform the student about his range of final score to receive an educational plan based on his/her abilities. These methods can be effective in streamlining learning procedure in a system. Test results show the desired accuracy (0.939) of the proposed method than previous methods (discovery of association rules, classification, and identifying the inconsistencies).
Electronic learning- virtual
L. Jamshidi; Sh. Khoshkab; A. A. Dolati
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The research aimed to study the effects of social software application on constructivist classroom Characteristics. Applied research and descriptive - survey was conducted. The population consisted of all male and female teachers in the smart high schools that were selected by random sampling, 103 of ...
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The research aimed to study the effects of social software application on constructivist classroom Characteristics. Applied research and descriptive - survey was conducted. The population consisted of all male and female teachers in the smart high schools that were selected by random sampling, 103 of them were selected as participants. The research's tool is scale of constructivist classes based on e-learning model Mvvdly and scale of social software applications. The reliability and validity of tools was calculated using the Cronbach's alpha and internal consistency. The method for data analysis, average fixed, correlation and regression analysis and structural equation modeling was conducted. The results showed that the use of social software and constructivist classroom Characteristics in the sample studied is higher than average. The use of social software and constructivist classroom Characteristics are taught positive and significant relationship. The results of regression analysis and path analysis showed that the use of the Internet and intranet affect on constructivist classroom Characteristics.
Electronic learning- virtual
M. Rezaee; M. Shobeiri
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: The aim of the present research is to become familiar with the awareness, type of attitude, and the environmental behaviors of the students of Markazi Province’s Payame Noor University and examine the degree of the effect of Viber, Line and Instagram application on these variables. This ...
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: The aim of the present research is to become familiar with the awareness, type of attitude, and the environmental behaviors of the students of Markazi Province’s Payame Noor University and examine the degree of the effect of Viber, Line and Instagram application on these variables. This research is an applied research regarding to its objective and the survey method among the descriptive data collection methods was used for the purposes of collecting the data. The population of the present study included 26701 students of Markazi Province’s PayameNoor University and 377 samples were selected randomly through the Cochran sample size formula and were examined. The instrument used in this research is a questionnaire made up of five sections which was piloted prior to the study in order to increase its reliability and validity. The data were analyzed through using the independent samples T test in order to examine the effects of using Viber, Line and Instagram on the dependent variables of the study (awareness, attitude, and environmental behavior) and the Pearson test was used to examine the effect of the resultant of using the three under- study software on the dependent variables by using the SPSS software. Based on the findings of the study the attitude and behavior of the students were higher comparing to their awareness and there was no significant relationship between using Viber, Line and Instagram software and the students’ environmental behavior, attitude, and awareness.
Electronic learning- virtual
M. Rajabi; Z. Derikvandi; H. Rezaeean
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The present study aims to investigate the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) courses on the creativity of students at Isfahan’s Vocational Education Center. The research method is a quasi-experimental type. The population of the research involves all the technical vocational ...
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The present study aims to investigate the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) courses on the creativity of students at Isfahan’s Vocational Education Center. The research method is a quasi-experimental type. The population of the research involves all the technical vocational students of Isfahan’s ICT Center. The subjects were selected using availability sampling and include 110 students comprising 57 students in the experimental group and 53 students in the control group. The means used for collecting data was Ravens Progressive Matrices Test accounting for homogeneity among the subjects and Dr Abedi’s creativity test involving sub-tests including Fluency, Elaboration, Originality and Flexibility. The latter test was used to compare the creativity of experimental and control groups pre-testing and post testing. The analysis of the findings was carried out using Analysis of covariance at the significance level of P < %05. The results of the study indicated that while there was no significant difference between Fluency and Elaboration creativity tests, there was a significant distinction between Originality and Flexibility creativity tests. In addition, the total result of students’ creativity tests proved to be significant. Thus, it can be concluded that the educational courses of information and communication technology (ICT) have had a positive effect on the creativity of students of Isfahan’s ICT Technical Vocational Center.
Electronic learning- virtual
H. Banadkouki; K. Abbasi; A. Rahati
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: E-learning, by eliminating the limitation of space and time to attend in classes, has found a widespread use in communication between students and teachers. On the other hand, intelligence components, such as providing feedback and hint for students will increase the quality of education. But current ...
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: E-learning, by eliminating the limitation of space and time to attend in classes, has found a widespread use in communication between students and teachers. On the other hand, intelligence components, such as providing feedback and hint for students will increase the quality of education. But current methods for implementation of intelligent have high costs. This paper introduces a new method to provide intelligent e-learning at a low cost. Intelligence emergences in two components, including knowledge assessment and selection of appropriate hint during the problem solving. In this approach, a Bayesian network utilized to assess student knowledge and an Artificial Neural network utilized to select the appropriate hint. The structure of both networks is determined by training data. The proposed method is implemented and assessed in an e-learning system. The above 90 percent accuracy in both networks and low implementation cost are of the important advantages of the proposed method. The structure of the two networks which is based on training data makes it possible to use it in a variety of systems use e-learning systems with a diverse range of knowledge.
Electronic learning- virtual
F. Zolfaghari; A. Rahati
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Designing an educational system is costly and a time consuming task, hence, providing electronic learning modules according to the characteristics of each learner in order to reduce the learning time and increase productivity of education is very important. The purpose of this study is to provide an ...
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Designing an educational system is costly and a time consuming task, hence, providing electronic learning modules according to the characteristics of each learner in order to reduce the learning time and increase productivity of education is very important. The purpose of this study is to provide an electronic module according to the learning characteristics of each student, using some of the e-Learning standards, learning theories , memetic algorithm and also assess the learning outcomes of this approach. At the stage of subject preparation to teach each concept, a set of maximum possible learning activities is provided with different materials such as slides, lectures, etc. The compatibility between the activities and characteristics of student who want to learn is produced based on the theory of Folder on learning styles and Bloom's theory for knowledge classification. Student learning styles are designed based on a questionnaire using Folder approach and testing of his/her knowledge is extracted based on Bloom's theory and learning path which is include the proper ordering of learning activities is produced based on memetic algorithm. The populations of this study were 40 girls of third-year computer science class of high school in Zahedan. They were selected randomly. They have been subdivided into two groups of 20 randomly. The proposed system is trained with 20 people and 20 people have traditionally learned their lesson. Comparison between the proposed approach and traditional method in term of quality of education were performed. The results indicate that the proposed method has good quality.
Electronic learning- virtual
A.H. Nazarpoori; G.A. Tabarsa
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Electronic learning shows in general refer to methods that use electronic educational content This research have been done among university faculty of Lorestan Province which has familiarity with learning systems.. According to statistical society (unlimited) the size of the sample determines 150 people ...
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Electronic learning shows in general refer to methods that use electronic educational content This research have been done among university faculty of Lorestan Province which has familiarity with learning systems.. According to statistical society (unlimited) the size of the sample determines 150 people and with %5 significance level. Instrument used in this research was closed questionnaire and for determining the relations between variables, data by path analysis technique and correlation matrix has been used effects directly on usefulness of understanding with a coefficient of .28. Understanding of extended network and self-success of computer with effect on ease of understanding indirectly effect with a coefficient of .20 on electronic learning system acceptance. Also Learners by greater confidence in using computers believe their ability to use e-learning system for education and perceptual the usefulness of system in E-learning and use it. As a result, they consider system as a useful tool in learning.
Electronic learning- virtual
M, Tayefi NasrAbadi; D. Karimzadegan Moghaddam; D. Vahdat
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Nowadays in the world and also in our country distance learning education is extended day by day. Educational systems now have a different approach in terms of teaching. They also used more cooperation of students in terms of increasing the quality of teaching. This study was designed to provide a framework ...
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Nowadays in the world and also in our country distance learning education is extended day by day. Educational systems now have a different approach in terms of teaching. They also used more cooperation of students in terms of increasing the quality of teaching. This study was designed to provide a framework for evaluating the success of an interactive training system from a distance based on the web 2 in Tehran schools, The research model of Wang and Chiu (2011) was used to evaluate factors influencing the success of the measure and test the research model, data were collected from 402 high school students in Tehran by a questionnaire with 32 questions. Results showed that information quality, system quality and service quality have a positive impact on relationship quality in an e-learning 2 training system. The above three factors has positive effects on users' satisfaction and loyalty intention in an e-learning system 2 will also contribute. In addition, more attention to aforementioned factors cause increase the quality of education and educational system success in distance learning education based on Web2 in Tehran high schools.
Electronic learning- virtual
S.H. Nouri; M. Ayati; A. Khamesan
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Abstract: This study was done with the aim of making and testing multimedia program in Biology and Hygiene course by using scientific exploration model in Birjand. The method which is used is Quasi-experimental and the research population consists of the students of a guidance school in Birjand. This ...
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Abstract: This study was done with the aim of making and testing multimedia program in Biology and Hygiene course by using scientific exploration model in Birjand. The method which is used is Quasi-experimental and the research population consists of the students of a guidance school in Birjand. This study consists of 40 individuals that have been chosen by available method and the students were considered homogeneously with average, parents, educational levels and social status. Educational attainment in high and low levels of cognitive domain was measured in pre-test and post- test. The results of analyzing research by using combined ANOVA and repeated measurement indicates that the educational progress in both levels (upper and lower) of the cognitive area in the experimental group with compare to the control group was significantly higher. On the other hand t-test analysis results showed that the teaching by multimedia method has been increased the period of memories in the students.
Electronic learning- virtual
A. Asadi; G.H. Montazer
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Abstract: To meet the increasing demand for higher education, universities are questing for new ways of delivering education and as a result, e-learning is being implemented more frequently each day, creating new opportunities for both educational institutions and students. Likewise, every online organization, ...
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Abstract: To meet the increasing demand for higher education, universities are questing for new ways of delivering education and as a result, e-learning is being implemented more frequently each day, creating new opportunities for both educational institutions and students. Likewise, every online organization, the website of an educational institution is the first interaction tool between the user and the organization and plays an important role in establishing long term relationships with students. To face this strategic issue for virtual universities, this paper focuses on improving website quality based on users’ information and structural needs. By considering that the basic goal of every website is to provide the user with information, first, proper content for a university website from the users’ perspective will be selected, and then a framework for Iranian universities’ websites will be proposed. Selecting proper content items from a website is a selection problem with different criteria influencing the optimal solution. Therefore, in this paper, multicriteria decision making approach is taken toward this selection problem.
Electronic learning- virtual
R. Farshad; P. Akhavan; D. Karimzadegan
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Assictant: In recent years a fundamental revolution has been seen in the education. This transformation is not only in the tools and methods, but in the concept and approach of education. One of these developments is in the transferring from teacher-centered methods into students-centered methods. In ...
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Assictant: In recent years a fundamental revolution has been seen in the education. This transformation is not only in the tools and methods, but in the concept and approach of education. One of these developments is in the transferring from teacher-centered methods into students-centered methods. In this transformation, personal knowledge management can be recognized as the coin of e-learning. Concurrent with this evolution in the methods, tools of teaching have been changed fundamentally from traditional teaching tools to e-learning and e-learning 2.0 (e-learning with Web 2.0 tools). This novel method has been studied in this research. At the first, personal knowledge management processes, Web 2.0 tools have been recognized and then the overlaps with the training have been studied. The suggested model has been composed of these three areas, validated by the Delphi panel, and at last with chi-square test a survey has been done. 300 users of knowledge workers of online knowledge communities have been recognized and categorized; and knowledge workers 2.0 have been selected. In recognizing processes and tools of personal knowledge management, which can be used in e-learning, these knowledge workers answer the questions. On the other hand, 11 experts on Knowledge management (authors of ISI articles) in three rounds have been contributed in Delphi panel. The result of this study has been formed as a model for leveraging personal knowledge management tools in learning. This model includes the personal knowledge management 2.0 processes which can be used in learning. In addition, the best tools for each process have been identified in this model.
Electronic learning- virtual
S. Ayat; F. Bananzadeh
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Abstract: The importance of physician’s access to the latest findings reveals the need for studying about more efficient infrastructures based on the potential of new educational technologies. In this paper, a practical model to optimize the process of medical education has been presented. This ...
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Abstract: The importance of physician’s access to the latest findings reveals the need for studying about more efficient infrastructures based on the potential of new educational technologies. In this paper, a practical model to optimize the process of medical education has been presented. This model is based on the knowledge obtained through questionnaires completed by faculty members and clinical assistants from Medical school of Shiraz University. The questionnaire reliability using Cronbach's alpha was (α=0.71). Research findings show that there is no optimal continuing educational method for updating the knowledge of studied population and more than 82% of the target audience access to the latest resources by a delay more than one month. Furthermore, 68% of them believe that treatment algorithms are the fastest methods of training. Therefore, based on these results, by employing web 2, a new model, is proposed to achieve faster and continues method for education. Functional assessment of the proposed model approved by IT professionals and its effectiveness evaluated through a descriptive study of the respondent population.
Electronic learning- virtual
N. Azizi; A. Shah Mohammadi; H. Naghdi
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Abstract:The aim of this research is recognizing the barriers which exist in implementing and holding the Elearning course in Kurdistan province secondary and high schools. We also try to provide solutions for this barrier to improve the course. To do so and as a descriptive research author uses a qualitative ...
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Abstract:The aim of this research is recognizing the barriers which exist in implementing and holding the Elearning course in Kurdistan province secondary and high schools. We also try to provide solutions for this barrier to improve the course. To do so and as a descriptive research author uses a qualitative method. The statistical population of this research was 7 managers and 14 teachers who were working in the E-learning schools in the Kurdistan province. To collect the data both semi structure interview and open questionnaires were used for those participants who were not available. For analyzing the data content analysis was used in inductive approach. The results showed that technology and communications, curriculum, administrative and structural and financial barriers are the most important ones. To remove these barriers, it is necessary that the aforementioned centers and the agencies which support them provide the best infrastructures in technology and financial terms. Also, it is necessary for them to evaluate and review the related strategies and programs.
Electronic learning- virtual
P. Mortazavi Aghdam; R. Rahmani Neyshabour; E. Zareye Zavaraki; M. Atashak
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This research tries to evaluate the electronic contents of "General Farsi" course consistent with Mayer multimedia design principles. The population of the research includes electronic contents of "General Farsi" course in electronic learning of Khajeh-Nassir Tousi University. The data gathering tools ...
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This research tries to evaluate the electronic contents of "General Farsi" course consistent with Mayer multimedia design principles. The population of the research includes electronic contents of "General Farsi" course in electronic learning of Khajeh-Nassir Tousi University. The data gathering tools consisted of a researcher-made checklist using five-point Liker scale with a 96 percent content validity and reliability. The results of the study indicate that the extent of consistency of the contents with the Temporal Contiguity and Redundancy Principles was optimal while it was semi-optimal when Multimedia, Spatial Contiguity, Coherence and Modality Principles were taken into account and finally it was regarded suboptimal in relation to Individual Differences Principle.
Electronic learning- virtual
A. Sanayei; H. Salimian
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Internet has been a significant effect on the establishment of virtual education. Virtual education is a term that involves online learning by using e-learning. This study analyzes the affecting factors for virtual education acceptance with emphasize on the internal factors and its statistical population ...
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Internet has been a significant effect on the establishment of virtual education. Virtual education is a term that involves online learning by using e-learning. This study analyzes the affecting factors for virtual education acceptance with emphasize on the internal factors and its statistical population is, virtual faculty students of Isfahan University who have been completed the questionnaires either by their presence or through the internet (electronic questionnaires). In comparing this research with others in this field we will understand that, there is more recognition of the internal factors affecting the learners in this paper, in this study, we emphasize on these factors; and we consider the motivation and self-efficacy as internal factors. According to the technology acceptance model, we consider the direct effect of the motivation variables, ease of perceived use, cognition’s benefits, the indirect effect of social influence, system quality, facilitating condition and self-efficiency on behavioral tendency and students’ acceptance of virtual education. SPSS 19 and Amos 18 software have been used to analyze the data. The 121 questionnaire findings showed that Social influences and system quality have an impact on cognition’s benefits. Also it must be noted that we showed the effect of facilitating conditions and self-efficiency on ease of perceived use and effect of ease perceived use of the cognition’s benefits. Also on we accepted that motivation, ease of perceived use and cognition’s benefits have a direct effect on the students tendency and their behavioral tendency.
Electronic learning- virtual
N. Bibi Eshrat Zamani; M.J. Liaghat dar; A. Mohamadi; H. Babri
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At first this project reviews and then compares the self-efficiency of instructors and students who use the internet in the Isfahan teacher training center. The research method is descriptive-survey. The statistical population consists of all the students and instructors in Isfahan teacher training ...
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At first this project reviews and then compares the self-efficiency of instructors and students who use the internet in the Isfahan teacher training center. The research method is descriptive-survey. The statistical population consists of all the students and instructors in Isfahan teacher training centers. The related data gathered by the researcher made questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was determined by content validity. The reliability coefficient calculated by Cranach’s Alpha scale 0.94. The findings showed that it should be a significant difference between the students and instructors ideas in their self-efficiency to use the internet in different areas such as: education, communication and research context. The instructors’ self-efficiency level in education, communications and research context is more than students. Also both groups have the same viewpoints about the effective factor that increase the self-efficiency in using the internet. Among these ideas access to the internet at home for the students and holding English courses for instructors has more importance.
Electronic learning- virtual
B. Maghsoudi; S. Sulaimany; A. Amiri; M. Afsharchi
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Educational and technology based learning is the turning point of learning and so is utilizing networks for design, presentation, selection, management and development which includes learners, specialists and content providers. A large volume of data which is produced in user interaction with learning ...
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Educational and technology based learning is the turning point of learning and so is utilizing networks for design, presentation, selection, management and development which includes learners, specialists and content providers. A large volume of data which is produced in user interaction with learning management systems, student selected courses and their course grades are stored. These data include valuable information for studying, analyzing student behavior and offering consulting services. Electronic learning systems need virtual consultants and online associate specialists because of user-teacher distance and lack of related assistance in order to help students make better decisions and improve the learning quality level. This study aims at gaining more experience than is acquired by an associate specialist and dean by means of data mining. It also uses the data mining results to conduct educational guidance in electronic learning systems. It finds hidden patterns in student's course selection and predicts their final grades. The research also investigates the effect of activity, entrance method, time of attendance, and semester in electronic learning systems
Electronic learning- virtual
Gh. Montazer; A. Moosavi
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Focusing on quality and expansion of skill education to train creative and skill ful human resources has had a significant increase over the last years. In this regard، creating E-Training centers is among issues that should be carefully considered by training authorities. In this paper، evaluating ...
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Focusing on quality and expansion of skill education to train creative and skill ful human resources has had a significant increase over the last years. In this regard، creating E-Training centers is among issues that should be carefully considered by training authorities. In this paper، evaluating different models for E-readiness، relying on comparative studies، and analyzing data obtained from national studies، a comprehensive conceptual framework has been designed to study e-training readiness in the country. The achieved model includes three main dimensions: “hard infrastructure readiness”، “soft provisions readiness”، “supervision، and arrangements readiness”، as well as fifteen indexes which offer a comprehensive model to the countries training system and define its position in the development of mass scaled E-learning.
Electronic learning- virtual
Z. Sharifi; A. Nasr; A. Monajemi
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The purpose of this study was investigate the amount of realization of technical characterization and the assessment of course in developing and designing virtual courses of Iranian universities from the view points of students. Developing and designing virtual courses of criteria was five domain, and ...
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The purpose of this study was investigate the amount of realization of technical characterization and the assessment of course in developing and designing virtual courses of Iranian universities from the view points of students. Developing and designing virtual courses of criteria was five domain, and because of there are a lot of subjects in this article so, only above categories have been considered. In this study, descriptive-measurable method has been used. Statistical population of the study who were studying graduate and undergraduate students in the courses of engineering and human science who were selected of Shiraz and Khajenasir universities in the colligate year of 1386-87. For gathering the data, were used: quantitative method (researcher-made questionnaire). The questionnaire results identified that, in two research domain (technical characterization, and the assessment of course) The T which was seen was larger than the critical level of table (p≤0.05). In general, the all of the means, was higher than value means (3) (the mean of technical characterization domain 3/58, and the mean of assessment of course domain 3/02). Therefore, in relation to the results of this research as viewed by students, characteristics that mentioned above must pay attention higher average level.
Electronic learning- virtual
M. Mazloom
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Many discussions are available about the benefits and drawbacks of PowerPoint software in literature; however, according to the author’s review, there is not any comprehensive research about the optimum percentage of time of the classes for teaching with this software. This paper represents the ...
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Many discussions are available about the benefits and drawbacks of PowerPoint software in literature; however, according to the author’s review, there is not any comprehensive research about the optimum percentage of time of the classes for teaching with this software. This paper represents the best methods and percentages of utilizing PowerPoint software in classes. For this purpose, eight different classes of a university course were chosen, and each two classes were taught with a specific training method. In other words, four teaching methods containing four different amounts of times used for teaching with PowerPoint files were selected. This experimental work took four semesters. The percentages of times used for teaching with PowerPoint software were 0%, 25%, 40% and 100% respectively. The statistical analyses on coefficient errors indicate that the suitable percentages of teaching with PowerPoint are from 37% to 52% of the time of classes.
