the analysis of the factors affecting the acceptance of e-learning in higher education

Background: as the main step to implement and develop electronic learning (e-learning), it is very important to understand how learners accept it. the current study aimed at examining the main factors of e-learning acceptance by the students of garmsar branch of payam noor university, garmsar, iran. methods: the descriptive methodology was used in the current study. the statistical population included 184 postgraduate estudents in garmsar payam noor university in the academic year of 2014 - 15, out of which 124 persons participated in the study. the data collection instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire developed by the relevant research tools; the judgmental method was applied to reach the validity and cronbach’s alpha value was 0.73. collected data were analyzed by spss version 22.0 to conduct a basic analysis of the means and standard deviations and regression. results: the findings of the current study indicated that behavioral intention was under the influence of 3 factors including perceived ease of use ( β = 0.62, sig = 0.000), perceived usefulness ( β = 0.63, sig = 0.017), and attitude ( β = 0.85, sig = 0.000). conclusions: according to the findings, by increasing the students’ awareness about e-learning systems, their tendency toward using such systems increases.