A Study Opportunities and Challenges of Online Educations in Character Education Of Students With an Emphasis on Social Constructivism Approach

Online educations technology with having unique features such as flexibility, non-attendance, student-centered, independent learning based on talent and interest attracted the attention of many individuals and social groups. But online educations has not been means of neutral and Impartial and in the field of character education of students observer of opportunities and challenges. So, the goal of this research was to study opportunities and challenges of online educations in character education of students with an emphasis on social constructivism approach.
This study from qualitative research and of kind inductive and analytic philosophical. Information gathering method is library-documentary.
Findings: The most important opportunities online educations on character education students include development of multicultural education, academic freedom, scientific character, expand educational coverage, creating interactive learning environments and fostering critical thinking. In front of, that challenges include student academic dishonesty (that major forms include collusion, deception, plagiarism, technology manipulation and misrepresentation of information), privacy violations and nonconformity with copyright law. Unique facilities and capabilities online educations cause growth and rapid expansion in higher education. But in online educations due to the lack of real communication and ethical modeling student from professor, despite some opportunities the field of character education does not provide much, But this vacuum can be filled with more Interacting learning environment, more use of multimedia technologies and compilation codes of ethics. also, Problem solving -based education and increasing conference studentprofessor can increase the educational effectiveness of online educations.