Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

1 , Department of Industrial and Technology Management, Farabi Campus, University of Tehran. Tehran. Iran

2 Business Administration, Farabi Campus, University of Tehran. Tehran. Iran

Abstract

Electronic Commerce and E learning is one of the requirements of today’s business.  Information communication technology development, cultural communication development, rapid scientific-technological development, target population extension that needs high quality education services are some of these requirements. The aim of this study is to identify the affecting factors on E-learning, quality, in aspect of virtual students’ perspective. For this purpose by literature review, we extracted the affecting factors on E-learning quality. Then Researcher made questionnaire distributed among 112 University students of Tehran University virtual students at computational courses. The criteria’s assessment was used by Likert continuum. Then collected data were analyzed by SPSS software. Questionaries’ reliability (by Cronbach Alpha) and validity (by average variance explained) were confirmed. Then the research questions were analyzed by using Non Parametric Kolmogrov-Smironov, Binomial, mean of the ranks and Mann-Whitney test. The results reveal that Tehran University students believed that "quality infrastructure", "teacher" & "technological factors" have been identified in the first phase of this study.  In addition, there aren’t any significant attitudes between Farabi & Faculty of management of the University of Tehran.  Developing a new E-learning quality assessment model is one of the researchers’ initiations. Also lack of deep view to observed phenomena because of quantity approaches is one of the researchers’ limitations.

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