Abstract:
Since virtual education has been considered as an alternative for conventional education and it is in
progress in M. A. levels in Payam-e Noor University (PNU) the feasibility assessment of B.A. levels has beenstudied for the present study. In this study, the facilities and equipment needed for virtual education and theshortcomings of it in PNU is studied. The research is of practical ones and imperative survey is used as theresearch method. Statistical society contains of 928 university teachers and all the 8954 students studying atB.A. levels in 2014. For the study of facilities and equipment, systematic observation method was used. Due tosome restrictions of motivation etc., and for the increase of validity and reliability a questionnaire was also used
to collect the data. According to the observations, the basic equipment and facilities as: computers, internet,skilled personnel needed, economical budgets, and digital textbooks have already been provided in MashadPayam-e Noor University. On the other hand, possibility of offering virtual education from the view points ofteachers was 3.09 out of 5 and from the student's point of view was 2.87. Therefore, it is possible to offer virtualeducation to B.A. students in PNU. Hence lack of a unique educational standard, very skillful personnel, smalleducational space, educational classes for teachers, are of the shortcomings of offering virtual education toPNU students.
Machine summary:
"(2014) showed that from the faculty member’s viewpoint, the possibility of implementing virtual learning courses in four technical, socio-cultural, organizational and educational is significantly higher than the average level.
The findings showed that the possibility of the implementation of virtual education in Islamic Azad University of Marvdasht is at a high level from the viewpoint of officials, professors as well as students.
Internet access with 512 Kbps of bandwidth is provided to use in university environment for professors and staff of virtual education as communication platform needed to implement virtual education courses.
Given this issue and in order to prepare and transfer information and scientific achievements to electronic environment, the possibility of digitize the desired content of professors at each session is provided by officials responsible for holding classes and equipments in Payam-e Noor University of Mashhad.
As was stated by Afiuni et al (2014), from the professors’ perspective, the possibility of providing virtual education courses is higher than average level; but, to prevent problems during implementation, the existing shortcomings should be solved.
As Arbaugh (2010) proposed the training of teachers for virtual courses as an effective solution for the success of these courses, it is necessary for better implementation of virtual education that faculty members of Payam-e Noor University learn the knowledge and skills needed to apply this technology in education and development of higher education."