Interdisciplinary Journal of Virtual Learning in Medical Sciences (Jun 2014)

Characteristics of a Good Lecturer from the Viewpoints of the Students of Universities Offering Virtual Education in Shiraz

  • Khadijeh Shahsavani,
  • Mehran Faraj Elahi,
  • Nahid Zarif Sanaiey

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2
pp. 52 – 60

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Introduction: An important factor fostering the achievement of educational objectives and goals is the lecturer. Characteristics of a lecturer could facilitate the teaching procedure and even compensate for the textbook imperfections. Regarding the importance of the subject, the aim of this research is to determine the characteristics of a successful lecturer from the in the prospect of the students of the Shiraz Virtual Universities. Materials and Methods: The present research was functional and for its accomplishment, the measuring- method has been used. For the purpose of data accumulation, the verified questionnaire forms has been used, which reliability of the questionnaires was calculated by the Cronbakh Alpha coefficient and estimated to be 0.93. Statistic Research Community contains 1270 people, from which 1200 people were in Shiraz Virtual University and 70 people were the students of Shiraz Virtual Medical Science University. The volume of research statistic sample, by using Morgan chart estimated to be 351 people, that has been chosen by the proportional classificatory sampling method. The analysis of questionnaires of single changeable test, independent T, dissolution of one way variance (ANOVA) and the prosecution test is also used. Results : The results showed that Domains of scholarship (Virtual University Shiraz of m= 4.37 and Virtual University of Medical Sciences Shiraz m= 4.47), electronic skills (Virtual University Shiraz of m= 3.94 and Virtual University of Medical Sciences Shiraz m= 4.16) and teaching techniques (Virtual University Shiraz of m= 4.21 and Virtual University of Medical Sciences Shiraz m= 4.30) Successful teachers are effective in defining feature (p= 0.001). Conclusion: Research findings demonstrate that, researching, obligation, electronic skills and teaching techniques scopes, are effective in clarification of successful master.

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