The Identification of Factors Affecting Virtual Education in Schools

Abstract

Nowadays, education as an entity that is responsible for nurturing this country's human capital, must try to coordinate its instructional practices with the ongoing developments in the world. One of the educational methods that are growing as well is virtual education. In this study, we're identifying the factors affecting the acceptance of virtual education, zoning, and ranking them in terms of effectiveness from expert's view and eventually investigating the situation of factors in the present situation of virtual education in schools tries to improve this educational method in education. The important components of virtual education were identified in two steps using the Delphi technique and eventually 29 factors were categorized in the form of a researcher made questionnaire in 7 zones; and they were distributed in schools for girls which have used the virtual education. In total, 107 teachers answered the questions. Content validity was approved by professors and experts and the questionnaire's reliability was obtained through the 96% Cronbach's alpha. While ranking these components with respect to the census statistics method, we used the mean and standard deviation indicators using spss software; and finally the proposed model with respect to the questionnaire has been approved using the structural equation modeling and the LISREL software.