Developing a Virtual Education Model to Promote Management Cybernetics and Strategic Intelligence in the Universities of Kermanshah Province

 Today, virtual education is viewed as a new paradigm to develop higher education to promote management cybernetics and strategic intelligence for educational managers in universities; solving these problems requires a scientific and research approach, which may help the organization with proper decisions and implementation to achieve the organizational goals.

 The present research aims to develop a model for structural equations of virtual education to promote educational managers’ management cybernetics and strategic intelligence in the universities of Kermanshah Province in 2019.

 In terms of it is nature, the present research is exploratory; it is a qualitative-quantitative paradigm-based one. A survey technique was applied to collect data. The statistical population included 1,200 people among the educational managers of Kermanshah Province universities; a sample of 291 people was developed by the Cochran formula. The research tools included a (semi-structured) questionnaire, in the qualitative phase, McCabe’s Standard Strategic Intelligence Questionnaire (2007) and researcher-made questionnaires of virtual education and cybernetic management were used in the quantitative part. Descriptive and inferential statistics and SPSS24, Amos software were used for data analysis.

 The results of confirmatory factor analysis show a proper fit of the designed model and its components. Also, the findings indicate that there is a significant correlation between virtual education, management cybernetics, and strategic intelligence.

 Considering the identified model and research findings that there is a correlation between research variables, it is proposed the mentioned results be included in the educational managers’ plans of academic centers to decrease managerial and decision-making challenges.