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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, speed up in knowledge production and the necessity of development of a
lifelong and continuous training system, necessity of considering to user orientation and
extending educational justice. It is assumes that a high performance e-learning system
can overcome to the mentioned problems. E-learning is main component of educational
systems in 21st century. 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 Payam
Noor University of Ardabil province 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 Payam
Noor University. Also results revealed that factors such as educational effectiveness in elearning,
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 Payam Noor
University of Iran.
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