The Amount of Students’ Preparation and Professors’ Attitude towards E-learning System Implementation

Students and professors as the most important elements of the education system have the central and crucial role in effective and successful implementation of e-learning technologies in the field of teaching and learning; and knowing their preparation and attitudes for successful implementation and enforcement of such an approach is essential. Therefore, the present study has been covered in order to fulfill this requirement and designed to assess the preparation of students and attitudes of Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University’s professors toward e-learning system. Methodology The descriptive-survey study was conducted on218students and 198 faculty members of Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University in 2014-2015 academic years, which were selected by stratified random sampling method. The amount of students’ preparation and professors’ attitude towards e-learning system were measured using a standard questionnaire. Statistical analysis used in this study is descriptive and inferential statistics (frequency tables, barographs, mean and standard deviation, one-sample t-test and F- test). Research findings showed that students of Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University have moderate preparation to participate in e-learning. And also the results indicate that professors of the university have a positive attitude towards the implementation of e-learning system. The results analysis indicates that there is significant difference between the amounts of students’ preparation indifferent schools to participate in e-learning. But about the rest of the questions (the difference between students’ preparation according to their educational level and academic achievements) the difference was not significant.