Mohsen Hajitabar Firouzjaee; Kiumars Taghi Pour
Volume 11, Issue 38 , January 2016, , Pages 1-30
Abstract
Purpose:The purpose of this study is to identify the domain status subject of the conducted research of instructional technology in Iran, to draw a favorable situation and clarify its existing gaps. The important questions of this research are; What is the situation of the conducted research in the instructional ...
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Purpose:The purpose of this study is to identify the domain status subject of the conducted research of instructional technology in Iran, to draw a favorable situation and clarify its existing gaps. The important questions of this research are; What is the situation of the conducted research in the instructional technology as a matter of disciplinary? What’s the desired situation?; What gaps are there between the current situations and the desired condition?This research has two stages: Firstly, the all conducted research in the related areas to instructional technology make up the statistical population, researches that have been done on 3 universities with good reputation and higher instructions, were selected as sample to indentify research of current situation. In this stage, the information gathering and data analysis have been used by FISH tools and quantitative content analysis. At the second stage, for Iranian educational technology 22 clarifying the desired condition of the research specialists have been chosen Via criterion – based sampling. Method: The gathering data tool at this stage was the researcher made questionnaire. As well, to identify the research gap, we have had a comparison between the desired situation and the current situation data.Findings: the conducted research in Iran has mostly emphasized on the traditional areas and didn’t pay attention to the new domains.