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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