Developing a Virtual Education Model to Promote Management Cybernetics and Strategic Intelligence in the Universities of Kermanshah Province

Abstract

Background: Today, virtual education is viewed as a new paradigm to develop higher education to promote management cybernetics and strategic intelligence for educational managers in universities; solving these problems requires a scientific and research approach, which may help the organization with proper decisions and implementation to achieve the organizational goals. Objectives: The present research aims to develop a model for structural equations of virtual education to promote educational managers’ management cybernetics and strategic intelligence in the universities of Kermanshah Province in 2019. Methods: In terms of it is nature, the present research is exploratory; it is a qualitative-quantitative paradigm-based one. A survey technique was applied to collect data. The statistical population included 1,200 people among the educational managers of Kermanshah Province universities; a sample of 291 people was developed by the Cochran formula. The research tools included a (semi-structured) questionnaire, in the qualitative phase, McCabe’s Standard Strategic Intelligence Questionnaire (2007) and researcher-made questionnaires of virtual education and cybernetic management were used in the quantitative part. Descriptive and inferential statistics and SPSS24, Amos software were used for data analysis. Results: The results of confirmatory factor analysis show a proper fit of the designed model and its components. Also, the findings indicate that there is a significant correlation between virtual education, management cybernetics, and strategic intelligence. Conclusions: Considering the identified model and research findings that there is a correlation between research variables, it is proposed the mentioned results be included in the educational managers’ plans of academic centers to decrease managerial and decision-making challenges.