Agricultural education
Masoud Samian; Mousa Aazami; Reza Bahramloo
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The main goal of this research is to investigate the factors affecting the adoption of optimal cropping patterns for sustainable agricultural development. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and paradigm, it is a mixed research (qualitative-quantitative) with an exploratory approach. In ...
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The main goal of this research is to investigate the factors affecting the adoption of optimal cropping patterns for sustainable agricultural development. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and paradigm, it is a mixed research (qualitative-quantitative) with an exploratory approach. In the first stage, in order to identify and extract the factors affecting the adoption of the optimal cultivation pattern in line with the sustainable development of the agricultural sector, 18 semi-structured interviews were conducted with experts in this field using a purposive sampling method and considering the theoretical saturation index. After conducting interviews using content analysis method, five factors were identified: economic, social, political and institutional, environmental, and educational and extension. In the second stage, the fuzzy Delphi technique was used to achieve group agreement among the experts. The results of the study showed that the highest level of agreement among experts at this stage regarding each of the economic, social, political and institutional, environmental, and promotional and educational factors affecting the acceptance of the optimal cultivation pattern in line with the sustainable development of the agricultural sector was related to increasing the income from changing the cultivation pattern for farmers (S=0.83), building trust among farmers to accept the proposed cultivation pattern (S=0.85), determining a guaranteed price for products resulting from the new cultivation pattern (S=0.83), saving (reducing water consumption) in water consumption in the proposed cultivation pattern (S=0.80), and using model and demonstration farms to familiarize farmers (S=0.82)
Agricultural education
Khalil Mirzaei; Masoud Samian; azam shakori; Marjan Sepahpanah
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The main purpose of this s tudy was to inves tigate the Inhibitors of e-learning (non-face-to-face) fromthe viewpoint of the Faculty of Agriculture of Bu Ali Sina University. The scope of this s tudy of the FacultyAgriculture of Bu Ali Sina University. The required data for the research has been collected ...
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The main purpose of this s tudy was to inves tigate the Inhibitors of e-learning (non-face-to-face) fromthe viewpoint of the Faculty of Agriculture of Bu Ali Sina University. The scope of this s tudy of the FacultyAgriculture of Bu Ali Sina University. The required data for the research has been collected using a survey andques tionnaire method. In order to determine the reliability of the ques tionnaire, the ordinal theta coefficientwas used, 82% for 46 ques tions. The sample population of the Faculty Agriculture of Bu Ali Sina Universityincludes 81, that were selected by random sampling in several s tages (n=63). Exploratory factor analysis was used to identify the barriers to e-learning. The results of the exploratory factor analysis show thatimplementation obs tacles such as low facilities for evaluating learning progress in courses, low facilities of eelectronic education sys tem for the continuation of learning activities by faculty members, low facilities, in the electronic education sys tem in terms of providing the possibility of feedback by the members of the academics taff, the low level of permission to the learner or the teacher to change the way the lesson is presented,the low level of encouragement of the electronic education sys tem in the communication between learnerand teacher have the mos t significant effect in obs tacles, as a result, removing these obs tacles leads to the development of education It will be electronic.
Reza Movahedi; Masoud Samian; Nasim Izadi; Marjan sepahpanah
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The study's population included 500 both graduate and undergraduate students at Bu-Ali Sina University in 2017 academic year. A number of 217 students were randomly selected as samples using Morgan's sampling size table. In order to validate the questionnaire and access to reliable variables both panel ...
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The study's population included 500 both graduate and undergraduate students at Bu-Ali Sina University in 2017 academic year. A number of 217 students were randomly selected as samples using Morgan's sampling size table. In order to validate the questionnaire and access to reliable variables both panel of experts and a pre-test method were used. The reliability of the questionnaire estimated with R, was 0.88. Results showed that majority of the students (52.4 %) agreed to virtual social networks with a positive attitude. The students on graduated level and female gender have used VSNs more than other groups. The results of factor analysis of the effects of social networks on improvement of learning activities showed that the most important factors were the exchange of information with classmates and teachers, improving the culture of study and learning, improving personal and social communication and increasing the probability of job placement. The factors explain 61% of the variance of all variables. Also, the results of Spearman correlation coefficient showed that there is a significant relationship between gender and educational level of agricultural students with their attitude toward using social networks in the level of 99%, and the results of Kruskal Wallis test also indicate that between The attitude of male and female students towards social networks is significantly different at 99 percent
