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Makale Özeti:
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Higher education in Iran is confronting with several challenges; some of them are
increasing demand for education and insufficiency of current programs to meet the
growing needs, emerging information age and the necessity of achieving information
literacy, and extending educational justice. It is assumes that a high performance elearning
system can overcome to the mentioned problems. It removes time and place
restrictions and creates economical benefits, and makes available lifelong learning
opportunity for all. The primary purpose of this study was to identify challenges of
electronic learning development in Payame Noor University of Iran to present feasible
solutions for establishing a suitable e-learning system. Descriptive survey design for data
collection was adopted in this study. The population of this study was consisted of 600
instructors and faculty members.
A sample of 160 faculty member was selected by using random sampling method.
Results show that barriers such as incompatibility of contents and methods, skill
unavailability, attitudinal hampering, cultural barriers, infrastructural obstacles,
encouraging and credit barriers as well as barriers related to incorporating e- learning
into traditional education systems were the main challenges of e-learning in the Payame
Noor University.
Also results revealed that factors such as educational effectiveness in e- learning, policy
making, university's technical and social support of e- learning, financial support and
expansion of income earning for instructors and faculty members, improving working
conditions, foreign language skill and faculty members interest in professional
development were the most important factors in developing e-learning in Payame Noor
university of Iran.
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