AN EVALUATION OF IRANIAN ACADEMIC WEBSITES FOR ENHANCING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Nowadays, websites are considered as important tools in education and research. The importance of successful design and delivering of an academic website with a high degree and more effective quality is increasing every day. Unfortunately, although the importance of effective and high-quality websites for universities has been proven, numerous academic websites do not provide enough user satisfaction and quality, leading to a major negative effect on the popularity of the universities owning them. In addition, improving the quality of the home page increases website usability and accessibility. In this paper, a set of evaluating criteria has been defined for websites of Iran’s top 14 universities. Based on their educational and website rankings, these universities have been evaluated based on the mentioned criteria

Keywords:

Evaluation , Home Page , Academic Websites