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Purpose : The present study was carried out aiming to identify the challenges and opportunities of virtual teaching during the Coronavirus pandemic from the perspective of teachers. Methodology : The present study was applied in terms of its purpose and qualitative in terms of its implementation. The statistical population includes middle school and high school teachers in the city of Dehloran during the 2020-2021 school year. The sample size was determined 18 people based on the principle of theoretical saturation and purposive sampling was used. The study was conducted through semi-constructed interviews and data analysis was done based on thematic analysis. The credibility of the findings was assessed using face validity (Five academic experts including two sociology professors, one psychology professor, and two curriculum design professors) and Cohen’s kappa agreement coefficient was used for reliability, for which a value of 0.88 was obtained. Findings : Findings show that 23 open codes and 7 axial codes (a globalized approach, parents’ experiences, the lower psychological and economic cost of virtual teaching, the constant nature of virtual teaching, the adaptability of pillars of the education system, a selective teaching method, and teachers’ social status) were identified as opportunities of virtual teaching. Also, 24 open codes and 8 axial codes (infrastructural factors, economic challenges, ambiguity about roles, lack of technological skills, lost motivation in teachers and students, the risk of teaching, and teachers’ competencies) were identified as challenges of virtual education during the pandemic. Conclusion : Given the uncertainty of when the pandemic will be completely done with, the continuation of virtual teaching is necessary and those in charge of education must seriously pay attention to the present challenges to improve its quality.

Purpose: Considering the role and importance of professional ethics in all organizations, including educational organizations, the purpose of this study was designing a pattern of extra-organizational professional ethics of deputies and heads of education districts. Methodology: The present study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was combined (qualitative and quantitative). The research population in both qualitative and quantitative sections were deputies and heads of education districts of Tehran city in 2018-19 academic years, which The sample size in the qualitative section according to the principle of theoretical saturation was estimated 20 people who were selected by purposive sampling method and the sample size in the quantitative section according to Cochran's formula was estimated 113 people who were selected by cluster random sampling method. The research instruments were semi-structured interview and researcher-made questionnaire whose psychometric properties were confirmed. Data were analyzed by methods of coding and exploratory factor analysis. Findings: The results of the qualitative section showed that extra-organizational professional ethics included 71 indicators in 14 categories of professional, ethical or normative, ethical knowledge, organizational strategies, education, managerial factors, resources, institutionalization, evaluation, staff, organizational culture, structure factors, organizational procedures or regulations and development of individual and organizational professional ethics. Also, the results of the quantitative section showed that extra-organizational professional ethics included 40 items in 9 factors of self-efficacy, scientific responsibility, individual ethics, managerial factors, organizational factors, job ethics, extra-organizational factors, social responsibility and belonging to scientific social, which two factors of self-efficacy and belonging to scientific social were removed from the pattern due to a factor load of less than 0.40. Finally, the pattern of extra-organizational professional ethics of deputies and heads of education districts was designed. Conclusion: According to the designed pattern of extra-organizational professional ethics of the deputies and heads of education districts, to promote the extra-organizational professional ethics in them can be improved the identified categories.

Purpose: Considering the role of marketing in the sale of various products, the aim of the present research was to investigate the impact of effective marketing factors on increasing film sales. Methodology: This was an applied quantitative correlational study. The study population included media producers, directors and experts in 2019. A total of 294 participants were selected using convenience sampling according to Cochran's formula. The data collection tool included a researcher-made 34-item questionnaire, the validity of which was confirmed by expert opinion and factor analysis, and its reliability was estimated at 0.83 by using Cronbach's alpha method. Data analysis was carried out using correlation coefficients and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and LISREL software. Findings: The results showed that all nine subscales of effective marketing factors including evaluation and identification of the target audience, evaluation and identification of market opportunities, evaluation and identification of the topic, evaluation and selection of film elements, evaluation and selection of appropriate advertising strategy, evaluation and selection of appropriate promotion strategy, evaluation and selection of the appropriate distribution system and channel, evaluation and selection of the appropriate pricing strategy, and the use of methods, tools, and potentials to increase sales had a direct and significant effect on the increase in sales of social drama films (P<0.05). Conclusion: The results indicated the effective role of all marketing factors in increasing the sales of social drama films. Therefore, planning to use effective marketing factors to increase film sales seems necessary.

Purpose: The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between communication skills and life satisfaction among students of Islamic Azad University. Methodology: This was an applied study in terms of its aim and a descriptive correlational in terms of its methodology. The research population included 190000 students studying at Islamic Azad University of Tehran in the academic year 2019-2020. The sample size was estimated to be 384 people selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. Data were collected by Communication Skills Test-Revise (Queendom, 2004) and Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (Huebner, 1991) and analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regressions in SPSS ver.19 software. Findings: The results showed that communication skills and all dimensions including the ability to receive and send message, emotional control, listening skill, insight into the communication process and communication with determination had a positive and significant relationship with life satisfaction in students (P<0.01). Communication skills significantly could predict 33.6% and among the dimensions of communication skills, three dimensions of listening skill, communication with determination and the ability to receive and send message together could predict 60.8% of life satisfaction changes in students (P<0.001), but the dimensions of emotional control and insight into the communication process did not enter the equation due to the lack of a significant increase in the amount of prediction (P>0.05). Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, communication skills with life satisfaction have a significant relationship and predicted a significant portion of it. Therefore, planning to improve the satisfaction of life in students is essential by increasing their communication skills through workshops.