Analytical Investigation of Course Management Systems in Electronic Education System

The aim of this study is an analytical investigation of course management systems in electronic education system. The present study has a positivist paradigm in terms of philosophical foundations, based on the type of research is applied, based on the main research approach is inductive and based on method is a mix (qualitative – quantitative research). The statistical population includes IT professionals who are familiar with course management systems in learning management system and their field of study is related to information technology. In the present study, purposive sampling has been used to select the sample elements. The sampling method used is snowball type (introduction of other experts by primary experts) which will continue until saturation is achieved. The number of experts studied in this study includes 15 people. After identifying the evaluation indicators of course management systems in the field of learning, by conducting the Delphi fuzzy method, 10 indicators of scalability, adaptability, accessibility, execution, flexibility, efficiency, user interaction, privacy/ security, accuracy and learning processes were selected as the final indicators of evaluation, which in the next step, their importance was determined based on the SWARA method. Then, these indicators were used as a basis for evaluating 5 appropriate content management systems for large-scale application in future. Based on the results, Moodle, OpenEdx and Blackboard were selected as the most suitable systems, respectively.