Critical Success Factors for E-Learning in Educational Context: An Iranian University Experience

This study examines factors that are perceived by university students to be critical for e-learning effectiveness. The study was a cross sectional study where respondents’ perceptions was measured at one point in time. 169 students around Tehran participated in this study. Correlation analyses wer...

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Main Author:	Bathaeian, Seyed Mohammad Reza
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng
Published:	2009
Subjects:	LB1025-1050.75 Teaching (Principles and practice)
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/1806/1/Seyed_Mohammad_Reza_Bathaeian.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/1806/2/1.Seyed_Mohammad_Reza_Bathaeian.pdf
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description	This study examines factors that are perceived by university students to be critical for e-learning effectiveness. The study was a cross sectional study where respondents’ perceptions was measured at one point in time. 169 students around Tehran participated in this study. Correlation analyses were conducted to test the relationship between instructor characteristics, students characteristics and information technology and e-learning system effectiveness, whereas descriptive analysis was conducted to analyze demographic characteristics of participants.The results show that there was an association between instructor characteristics and e-learning effectiveness. The findings indicated that the role of instructor in e-learning is important in determining its success.Students’ characteristics such as students’ motivation to use e-learning technology and students’ computing competency have also found to be related with e-learning effectiveness. As compared with the instructor and students’ characteristics, technology quality in terms of access, navigation,interface and the reliability and effectiveness of technology infrastructure have the highest relation to e-learning effectiveness.In conclusion, the results from this study indicate that instructor characteristics, student characteristics and the technology have strong relationships with e-learning effectiveness.
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title	Critical Success Factors for E-Learning in Educational Context: An Iranian University Experience
title_short	Critical Success Factors for E-Learning in Educational Context: An Iranian University Experience
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spelling	my-uum-etd.18062022-07-31T02:59:07Z Critical Success Factors for E-Learning in Educational Context: An Iranian University Experience 2009 Bathaeian, Seyed Mohammad Reza College of Business (COB) College of Business LB1025-1050.75 Teaching (Principles and practice) This study examines factors that are perceived by university students to be critical for e-learning effectiveness. The study was a cross sectional study where respondents’ perceptions was measured at one point in time. 169 students around Tehran participated in this study. Correlation analyses were conducted to test the relationship between instructor characteristics, students characteristics and information technology and e-learning system effectiveness, whereas descriptive analysis was conducted to analyze demographic characteristics of participants.The results show that there was an association between instructor characteristics and e-learning effectiveness. The findings indicated that the role of instructor in e-learning is important in determining its success.Students’ characteristics such as students’ motivation to use e-learning technology and students’ computing competency have also found to be related with e-learning effectiveness. 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