Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 PhD student in Curriculum Planning, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 Assistant Professor of Curriculum Planning, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to understand the culture of virtual education in higher education. This research was conducted using the phenomenological method and the purposive sampling method . The data collection tool was the use of semi-structured interviews. The data analysis method was carried out using thematic analysis.. The analysis of the interviews indicated 1 overarching theme, 3 first-level organizing themes, 11 second-level organizing themes, and 25 basic themes. The results of the study indicated that the influential items in the culture of virtual education in higher education include increasing the volume of scientific interactions, accelerating scientific interactions, eliminating traditional barriers to scientific interactions, bringing intra-university scientific circles closer together, networking between university professors, increasing interdisciplinary communications within the university, increasing communications between different universities, increasing communications between professors from different universities, increasing international scientific interactions, accelerating knowledge sharing with international scientific communities, using new communication methods in scientific exchanges, improving and increasing the efficiency of communication between professors, reducing compliance with scientific standards and obligations among professors, increasing superficial knowledge among professors, increasing plagiarism, improving the teaching process, improving knowledge production using new methods, participatory teaching, lack of emotional touch of the professor by the student, loss of emotional life between professor and student, lack of presence and emotional support of professors towards each other, individual emotional life of professors in teaching, loss of the common emotional courtyard between professors, lifelessness of the physical space of the university, meaningless Becoming the physical body of the university
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