Survey of Students’ Feeling of Presence of E-learning Courses and its Relationship with Students’ Attitude toward Elearning Courses in Iran’s Higher Education System

Introduction: Factors affecting student attitudes is an important factor influencingtheir educational success. This study is aimed and designed to survey the students’feeling of presence and its relationship with attitude toward virtual course.Methods: This study uses descriptive statistical methods to devise correlations. Thesample population includes professors and students of the following universities: AmirKabir, Elmo san’at, Khaje Nasiroddine Toosi, Olumo Hadis. In the quantitativeanalysis, 650 individuals were selected through accidental categorical methods. Theinformation was collected by means of the questionnaire “presence feeling andattitude toward virtual environment”. Data was analyzed by inferential and descriptivestatistics by means of SPSS.Results: The results showed that the students had higher than middle presence offeeling and are in low levels with regard to real feeling and participation. There wasno correlation between a feeling of presence and the students’ gender but a correlationbetween feelings of presence the university that they attend was evident, and variedfor each university.Conclusion: According to the results and the sense of presence on the attitude ofstudents, attention to student presence in electronically environments is so necessary.

Keywords:

Presence , Attitude , E- Learning , Student , Higher Education