Indian J.Sci'Res'Z (l\:47 &,47 6' 2014ISSN : 097G2876 (Print)
ISSN: 2?5G0138 (Online)
STUDINGANDPRIORITIZINGE-LEARNINGCRITERIABYUSINGGROUPDECISiON-MAKING TOOLS
MHSEN NAZEM BOKAEi'1, AREFE SAGHAYE MAYAIIIb' MOHAMMAD REZA HESARI"
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?rofessorAssistantandaFacultyMember,UniversityofShahed,Tehran,Iran
bB.SUniversityStudent'UniversityofBinalood'Mashhad'Iran
"PhD student university of Ferdowsi, BS in Statistics and Spatial Planning,Mashhad 'Iran
dM.S University student, Engineering Faculty, University of Ferdowsi ,Mashhad , Iran
ABSTRACT
In the current world, everything is changing. This change has involved the issue of education' so E-learning is
the best solution for those societies willing to have progress in their educrtion system' In this research, we studied the
criteria preventing E-learning in l\{ashhad Binaloud Llniversity' After defining E-learning' we also studied
advantages and disNdvantages of the program' Having distributed the questionnaires among the board of education
rnembers in Binatoud Institute for Higher Education, wc concluded that there is a big gap between the current
condition and the desired one for the three criteria including, professors, teaching materials end foundation and the
above-mentioneduniversityisnowequippedwithrequircdabilitiestoremovethegap.Thecurrentstudyhesused
multi-criteria decision-making tools named AHP'
KEy woRDS: E-learning - Advantages and Disadvantages - AHP E-Space - Phase and Group
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Nowadays, all individuals are tryrng to
learn more and more. However, they might not
have enough time to do so. E-leaming system is the
best solution for them. The most important factor to
improve E-lealning system is connecting
computers in which methodology is changed from
being traditional to technological (It should be
mentioned that all systems in the field of education
are not technological). E-learning has captured
different levels of education in the 21" century'
One of its achievements is virtual universities'
Virtual or E-leaming universities came to the scene
when internet became universal and according to
the studies conducted in this field, its origin is from
the United Stat€s since it seems that this country
has a better program and strategy in electronic
issues compared to other countries' Although, the
British were the first people who thought of these
types of universities, the Americans were the
pioneers of establishing virlual universities
praclically. What is required in this system is at
least a computer equipped with internet and a
motivated teacher to help the students
lCon'esponding author
Achieve higher grades of education' Teaching
thlough computer and internet does not take time
and space into account and a student can access
education in any time and place. Generally, vinual
leaming implies that students and teachers are
separated tiom each other in terms of time and
space and the teacher presents the materials
through software, multi-media sources, intemet,
video conference and the like. This rype of
education has some advantages and disadvantages
in which the former ones are more than the second
ones. Currently. some universities in Iran such as
the University of Mashhad, the University of
Shiraz, the University of Qom, the Isfahan' Payam-
e-Now University, Islamic Azad Universify, etc
have some classes in form of virrual learning
beside their attending classes- The objective of the
current research is studying advantages and
disadvantages of virtual learning system' And then'
we rvill study the same in Mashhad Binaloud
University and present methodology' Finally' we
will recornmend plactical strategies by using multi-
criteria decision making methods of AHP'
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