Identifying the effective factors on the development of e-learning by relying on new technologies

Virtual space is an environment consisting of computer networks, communication media, and users who exchange data and information. One of the important changes in this field is the formation of electronic learning, which has been increasingly expanded in recent years. Considering the importance of this issue, the present research was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors affecting the development of e-learning based on new technologies from the professors' point of view.

The present research was conducted in a certain group (universities of Semnan province) and therefore it is an applied research. In terms of data collection, it is a descriptive research. In terms of data collection, it is a survey research and in terms of the nature of the data, it is a quantitative research. first the validity and reliability of the questionnaire related to electronic learning was checked and after confirmation, it was distributed among the statistical sample including the professors of universities in Semnan province. After collecting and preparing the questionnaire data, the demographic characteristics of the studied sample were first described statistically, and then normality test, correlation test and Friedman test were used to investigate and answer the research questions.

The results of the normality test for all research variables were significant at an error level of less than 0.05, so the distribution of data was not normal at all, and Spearman's correlation coefficient test was used to examine the correlation between variables. The value of Spearman's correlation coefficient for the variable of "technological" factors is equal to 0.50, for "cultural-social" factors equal to 0.473, for "educational" factors equal to 0.512 and for "organizational" factors equal to 0.488 and at an error level of less than 0.05 was significant.

By identifying the factors influencing the adoption of e-learning, providing better services for e-learning will be more useful.