Learning Community-An International Journal of Educational and Social Development
Year : 2010, Volume : 1, Issue : 1
First page : ( 1) Last page : ( 14)
Print ISSN : 0976-3201. Online ISSN : 2231-458X.

Design a Pedagogical Model for Virtual Education: A Comparative Study in Iran and India

Dastjerdi Negin Barat

Depatment of Education, Isfhan University, Isfhan, Iran

Received:  23  March,  2010; Accepted:  1  May,  2010.

Abstract

The paper examines the possibility of providing a platform or base for extension of knowledge and wisdom in the virtual era to benefit all the people. Availability of knowledge and wisdom objectively influencing all the people and in all occasions, time wise and place wise, will go a long way in limiting the role of beauracracy. The major objectives of the Study were to determine the main dimensions in the field of virtual education, Present a Research Model for Virtual Education and also to determine the proportional degree of the Research Model from the point of view of the teachers, educational experts and specialist in Iran and India.

The Statistical sample of the present Study includes 400 teachers and educational experts in education technology, ICT and IT in Iran and India. In order to collect the needed data, a questionnaire was designed. The obtained data were analyzed on the basis of such descriptive and inferential statistical indexes as Factor Analysis, Correlation and Cronbach's Alfa. The SPSS package was used. This research is based on a well though out and scientifically designed “Research Model”. The ‘designed Research’ Model facilitated in-depth ground Study of each component of Virtual Education Model. Based on the empirical finding, our Conceptual Model could be refined and applied to draw conclusions. All the eight components of the Research Model were confirmed from the point of the view of the teachers and educational experts in Iran and India.

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Keywords

Virtual Education, Models, third world countries.

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