Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of taking advantage of electronic books on the academic progress of students at Payame Noor University, Iran. Method: This research is of descriptive and survey methodology. The statistical population includes the M.Sc. students of public administration in Shiraz Payame Noor University, who are studying in the academic year 2013-2014. 142 students have been chosen by simple random sampling. Findings: Results suggest that use of electronic resources causes a meaningful difference to be created in several contexts such as academic progress, variety of learning resources, flexibility while learning, informational knowledge, learning effectiveness, and updating information between the students of virtual and conventional programs. So, six of the research hypotheses have been verified. Only the fifth one (use of electronic resources causes a meaningful difference in learning speed between the students of virtual and conventional programs) has not been verified. Originality/Value: Investigating the effect of use of electronic books on both virtual and conventional programs students’ academic progress in a simultaneous way, the present research is distinguished from the other studies already done in this field.
کلید واژگان :e-books, academic progress, virtual programs, e-learning.
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