جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Islamic Azad University » در نشریات گروه « فنی و مهندسی »

The moral atmosphere of the university in institutions and organizations originates from two important sources, which include the agents of organizations and organizational construction. Giddens believes that structures are created both by the hands of human actors and are the means by which such action takes place. Structures are created by humans. But they also limit and make human action possible. In this article, with the theoretical approach of Giddens, the explanation of the attitude of students in creating an academic moral environment was discussed, and to what extent the evaluation of the structure of the university and academic agents in explaining the attitude of students to create Moral atmosphere is effective. The present research is of explanatory type and in terms of method, it is considered as a survey research. The statistical population of the present study includes students of Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch in 2019. The data collection tool in this research is a researcher-made questionnaire which after examining its validity and reliability by combining cluster sampling and disproportionate classification and determining the sample size using Cochran's formula, was administered to 381 B.S, M.A and M.S students are implemented. Findings indicate that the variable of evaluation of the university structure directly affects the creation of ethical atmosphere and evaluation of academic actors indirectly affects the creation of academic ethical atmosphere among students through the evaluation of the structure of the university

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the impact of digital welfare on the educational effects and Islamic lifestyle of the master's degree students of the Islamic Azad University of Sari during the Corona era. The applied research method was descriptive-survey type. The statistical population of this research was all master's students of Sari Islamic Azad University, numbering 165 people in the academic year of 2001-2001. The sample size was determined through the Karjesi and Morgan table of 115 people, and stratified random sampling method was chosen based on gender. The data collection tool was the standard questionnaire of the use of virtual social networks by Khaja Ahmadi et al. (2015) and the researcher-made questionnaire of Islamic lifestyle. The validity of the questionnaires was checked and confirmed by experts and experts. In order to analyze statistical data, descriptive criteria such as mean and standard deviation were used, and in inferential statistics, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and independent t-test were used. The results of the research showed that digital welfare in virtual social networks has influenced the Islamic lifestyle of students (educational programs, leisure time, devotional activities, health and nutrition, political dimension).

The purpose of this study is to identify challenges and propose solutions to improve the e-learning system of our Azad University in the evaluation department based on the experiences and views of professors active in this learning system. The research approach is qualitative and the phenomenological design strategy has been used. The research population includes all faculty members of Iran Azad University, and 12 of them have been selected by purposive sampling method until the theoretical saturation of the data. The required data were collected using a semi-structured interview, with Confirmed validity and reliability, and analyzed using the Corbin and Strauss method and the Max Qudai 16 software. The results of the study led to the identification of 28 appropriate strategies in 8 evaluation dimensions in the e-learning system of Azad University. Future research can lead to the quality of this e-learning system by designing plugins related to these solutions in a practical way. Also, the results of this research can be used by other researchers as new topics for the development of the e-learning system of our country's Azad University.

The aim is to investigate the technological role of organizational transparency in order to gain organizational trust of the managers of Mazandaran Azad University. This research is an applied and descriptive study of the type of correlation and performance mixed with the exploratory design. The statistical population includes 750 university administrators, which using the Cochran's formula and stratified random sampling of 254 people, the sample size was estimated. The results of heuristic variable technological analysis of organizational transparency with two components of technology understanding and the existence of a website with a factor variance of 38.38 and 41.35 were confirmed. The t-values ​​of organizational trust (stability, loyalty, competence, integrity, openness) were estimated from 5.52 to 9.53 and the technological dimensions of organizational transparency were 28.64 and 42.31 (more than the assumed t-value of 1.96), respectively. The above dimensions have a positive effect on the variable and at the error level of 0.05 there is a positive and significant relationship between the technological components of organizational transparency with organizational trust and its components and the technological variable of organizational transparency with a correlation coefficient of 0.98 with direct trust, positive And has a strong correlation.

Today's economy is a knowledge economy, and among them, the role of knowledge-based companies in the development and application of science and in the economic growth and development of present societies as a prominent role is of particular importance. In this regard, universities as the most important vehicle for the production of science due to its special conditions and characteristics, including model and excellence for other institutions and organizations are trying to keep up with the production of science and knowledge in its application through the creation of knowledge based spinn-off companies. But like other activities in this regard, there are still obstacles that despite the efforts of this group of organs has not achieved a good and successful result so far, so this study with the approach of identifying these obstacles tries to take a step towards removing these obstcales and to facilitate the application of knowledge through universities. This research is classified as applied research in terms of purpose and descriptive survey method has been used to collect research data. The data collection tool was a questionnaire that in the first stage of identifying barriers were distributed among 80 people and in the second stage of prioritizing these barriers among experts including 12 faculty members in different fields of Hadishahr Branch of Azad University. In this study, we used factor analysis method to identify barriers in the first stage, which resulted in identifying three categories of environmental, organizational and individual barriers in creating rspin-off companies in university . The results of prioritizing barriers using group AHP method showed organizational barriers is placed in the first place, respectively, environmental barriers are in the second place and individual barriers are in the third place to the establishment of university knowledge-based spin-off companies.

IT capabilities play an important role in a rapidly changing environment. It is important to note that organizations that have IT and the ability to use it, so the purpose of this study is the impact of IT on social responsibility and organizational learning in Islamic Azad University of Mazandaran Province to present the model. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of method. The statistical population includes 547 faculty members in the center and east of Mazandaran province, which according to Krejcie and Morgan table to 207 people by stratified random sampling method based on groups. Data collection was selected from three questionnaires of information technology, social responsibility and organizational learning. Validity was obtained through confirmatory factor analysis and reliability of Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.89, 0.86 and 0.92, respectively, which were approved. The method of data analysis was structural equations using LISREL software. The results indicate the direct and indirect effects of information technology on social responsibility and organizational learning. Organizational learning has also had a direct impact on social responsibility.

University Incubators are important centers for developing innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic improvement of country. Supporting these centers will led to their rising; expanding and causing a spill in the economic cycle of the country. Nowadays, these centers play a very important role in advancing economic and industrial expansion of developed and developing countries and in many countries, it has made significant effects on the achievement of knowledge - based development as well as the strengthening government, university and industry interactions. hence, considering the importance of this issue, the present study is to investigate the role of University Incubator Centers in entrepreneurial capacity of cores and technology units in Growth Incubator Center of Islamic Azad University, Sistan and Baluchestan Province. The study population included managers of all cores and incubators of technology deployed at Sistan and Baluchestan Islamic Azad University Growth Incubator Center since 1394. The present research is based on the descriptive research method of collecting information (Non-experimental) survey type. Data were analyzed by SPSS 19 and LISREL 54.8 and analyzed by T-test and Single Sample, Factor Analysis, Structural Model has been used. The results indicated a positive and significant effect of Growth Incubator Center on the level of entrepreneurial empowerment of Cores and technology units at Islamic Azad University of Sistan and Baluchestan.

The advent of information and communication technologies, increasing access to computers in higher education and universities’ challenges such as increasing demand for education, the need for economic activities to provide new resources and the use of information technology to provide education services in the global market has caused universities to reconsider their traditional roles and create new organizational structures. E-learning is one of the advances of technology in education. Along with the growth of technology and its development in the field of learning, experts in this field conceived the idea that they can meet the educational needs of the learners by launching e-learning courses. Determining the level of student satisfaction is one of the most important indicators of achieving the desired quality. Studies also show that in order to continuously improve higher  education system, it is necessary to evaluate the quality of educational, research and welfare services. Due to the above-mentioned reasons, examining the readiness and potential of the e-learning system is inevitable. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluation the effectiveness of e-learning on the satisfaction of graduate students in Islamic Azad University.

The research method is mixed (qualitative-quantitative). In qualitative section, a theme-based questionnaire/focal group and in quantities section, a surveying type was used. The statistical population of the research in the qualitative section was experts in the field of e-learning, academic elites, professors and experts, 22 of whom were selected by non-random and snowball sampling. The selection criteria was having more than 10 years of experience and being excellence in education and research. The statistical population of the quantitative section were postgraduate students of university units in northwestern Iran, among whom a sample size of 219 was selected by stratified sampling. The data collection method was interview in the qualitative section. In the quantitative section a 45-item researcher-made questionnaire was used based on a 5-point Likert scale. Spatial and local research area included university units in northwestern Iran consisting of 14 units in 2018: Tabriz, Bonab, Maragheh, Marand, Khoy, Parsabad Moghan, Ardabil, Garmi, Khalkhal, Meshkinshahr, and Azarshahr. These units were selected because their instructors had the following academic degrees: professors, associate professors and assistant professors.

The results showed that all the components of the research was satisfactory and with the exception of user interface all features of e-learning were efficient.

Inspired by theoretical foundations, research background, as well as the results of qualitative data, it was observed that the effectiveness of e-learning method has an impact on students’ satisfaction and also student satisfaction affects many variables in northwestern university units in Iran. These include motivation in relation to the goals of the organizational excellence, learning in anywhere any time, participatory learning, self-assessment and self-directedness, improving the functions of the educational system that provide a high return on extracurricular learning. 

In this research, we tried to identify and explain the critical success factors in the quality of electronic learning of the Azad University. Therefore, in order to achieve the goal of the study, we studied the comparison between the views of professors and students about the critical success factors in the e-learning quality of Azad University. Also, in the library section of this research, studies were conducted to identify the factors affecting the quality of e-learning from the perspective of the various stakeholders. Based on previous research and a survey of e-learning experts, a questionnaire was developed by researchers which was distributed among research statistical samples. Also, some of the items of the questionnaire were designed in order to obtain opinions and solutions. The statistical sample was asked to prioritize the importance of each critical factor in the success of The electronic learning in The Azad University. The important point in analyzing the research data of the researchers was that the direction of the research process was to identify and assess the significance of the amount and the significance of each factor and the variance associated with it. The main finding of the present study was that the viewpoints of faculty members and students about the critical success factors of e-learning quality varied. Finally, 9 critical success factors for e-learning quality from the perspective of the professors and seven critical factors for quality success were identified and explained from the perspective of students. Based on the categories for critical success factors, the quality of e-learning in this study was studied separately for both faculty members and students. The critical factors in the success of the quality of e-learning from the student’s perspective were: the characteristics of professors, availability, the ease of access, support and pedagogy. The key factors for the success of e-learning quality from the perspective of the professors were: student’s characteristics, accessibility, space features, and The staffing of educational services, support and training

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between resistance to change and the productivity of the librarians at Tehran branches of the Islamic Azad University. The methodology of this study was descriptive and correlation. Participants included 145 librarians at 44 library locations of Islamic Azad University. The instrument used in data gathering was a questionnaire. In order to analyze the data, descriptive and analytical methods plus the SPSS 22 had been used. 145 questionnaires were handed out but only 135 of them were received and examined. “Ability” as one of the dimensions of “librarians’ productivity” was higher than the other elements (with a mean of 3.6) and motivation was the lowest of all (with the mean of 2.1). Moreover, organizational level with the mean of 2.9 had the highest percentage of librarians’ resistance to change and individual level with the mean of 2.6 was the lowest of such resistance. The findings showed that at the Islamic Azad University libraries of Tehran, the individual and group level of resistance to change tended towards the average point and the organizational level of resistance had a tendency to move above the average point. At the libraries of Tehran’s Islamic Azad University branches, the ability of the librarians was at a high level but they had little motivation to enhance their productivity. The high level of organizational resistance to change showed the lack of acceptance of organizational changes by the librarians. Overall, the findings indicated there was tendency to move above the average. In other words, an increase in librarians’ resistance to change lead to reduction in their productivity and vice-versa.

The aim of the present research was to study the relationship between application of information and communication technology and university staff empowerment. The study was applied، and in terms of method، was descriptive، correlational. The statistical population was all employees in the staff field of Islamic Azad University of central organization، Science and Research Branch of Tehran and Tehran Center Branch that included 225 persons in academic year of 2012-2013. Among them، 143 people were selected as the sample population based on Cochran formula، by stratified sampling method. The research measuring instrument consisted of two questionnaires: 15 questions for information and communication technology and 35 questions for empowerment، prepared based on five point Likert scale. The reliabilities of the questionnaires were calculated based on Cronbach alpha and were obtained 0. 925 for information and communication technology and the 0. 928 for empowerment questionnaire. Data analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques such as Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients by SPSS software. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between the application of information and communication technology and components of empowering employees (improving employee performance، independence and freedom of action، feeling of decision- making responsibility، occupational diversity، self-controlling and professional ability، willingness and development of staff). Among the dimensions of empowerment، the component of improving employee performance had the most correlation، and the component of self-controlling had the least correlation with information and communication technology.

The main objectives of this study is to examine the views of librarians and graduate students of Tehran Islamic Azad University، Science and Research Branch، about e-books. The provided methodology in this study is descriptive- analytic survey. Regarding the magnitude of research society، the sampling method was employed in this research and also the classification random sampling method was adopted in order to determine the number of samples. Totally، 357 out of 15000 graduate students، as well as the whole of 40 librarians working at the University participated in the study. The data was explained by questionnaires and Excel software، then the statistical estimations، such as abundance percentage was conducted. The results indicate that some of the most important evaluation criteria of e-books from the viewpoints of graduate students of Tehran Islamic Azad University، Science and Research Branch are book content search capability from the views of 352 persons (93. 87 percent)، capability of advanced search from the views of 351 persons (93. 61 percent). Also، according to results some of the most important evaluation criteria of e-books in viewpoints of librarians of the university are suitability to library facilities from the views of 40 persons (100 percent)، interests of members to use of e-books from the views of 40 persons (100 percent)، and the clarity of bibliographic information in order to organize the resources from the views of 38 persons (95 percent). All of the considered electronic criteria of books، whether in search capability or structure، from the viewpoints of the students and librarians، include high significance and the society surveyed are acquainted with these kinds of books. Also، it is observable that all of the criteria are accepted (more than 75 percents) in selecting the majority of the society.

The goal of the present research was to investigate the relationship between the quality of electronic services and student's electronic satisfaction in Islamic Azad University Bonab Branch. To do so, the quality of electronic service has been studied based on Zeithaml, Parasuraman and Malhotra's theory and student's electronic satisfaction has also been studied based on Huavang and Wangs theory. The statistical society of the research included 9463 students of Bonab Azad University. Statistical sample was estimated 370 people through Cochran formula. They were also selected through classified random sampling method. Information gathering instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire whose face validity was confirmed based on the student's field of study and its reliability was also confirmed and estimated about 0.736 and 0.813 through Cronbach Alpha for both the quality of electronic services questionnaire and electronic satisfaction one respectively. Pearson, Freedman and one Sample t test were also used to test research hypotheses. Results indicated that there was a significant relationship between the quality of electronic services and its dimensions and student's electronic satisfactions in Bonab Islamic Azad University. Review of the priority of the quality of electronic service dimensions from student's point of view showed that self- reliance was the most important dimension efficient and other dimensions were ranked in the following order respectively, keeping personal secrets, responsiveness, command supply, compensation and communication. The results also revealed that the mean of the quality of electronic services and student's electronic satisfaction were below average.