Document Type : Original Article
Author
Department of Education, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The purpose of this research is explanation of eexperts’ perception of distance education system as a teaching organization. The present research method is a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach. Participating in this research were 15 professors and distance education graduates of Payam Noor University who were selected based on purposeful and criteria-based sampling.. A semi-structured interview was used to collect data. And for the qualitative analysis of the data, the coding method (open, central and selective) was used using the seven-step Claysey's method. The content validity of the interview questions was confirmed by experts.
The results of the explanation of experts' opinions about distance education system as a teaching organization include four main dimensions of policy, management and support, infrastructure and evaluation, modification and reengineering, and 32 components extracted from the text of the interviews, which are suggested to be distance education system as a teaching organization, should take care of the dimensions and components calculated in this research.
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