Given the role that virtual in-service education plays today in the development of teachers 'professions, it is important to examine teachers' perceptions of this type of education. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze the perceptions of teachers in distri
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Given the role that virtual in-service education plays today in the development of teachers 'professions, it is important to examine teachers' perceptions of this type of education. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze the perceptions of teachers in district one of Tabriz about virtual in-service education. The method of this study was descriptive phenomenology. The participants in this study were teachers in district one of Tabriz in primary and secondary schools who had the experience of participating in in-service virtual education. Purposeful standard sampling was used to interview teachers. In this regard, after semi-structured interviews with a general question and then exploratory questions to obtain more in-depth information with 18 people, theoretical saturation was obtained in the data. During the interviews, teachers shared their experiences of in-service training, which was analyzed using the seven-step Colaizzi method. The results of the analysis of teachers' perceptions about in-service education showed 9 main themes, which are: accessibility regardless of time and place, optimization, suitability with educational methods and new technologies, organizational support, content problems, implementation problems, Evaluation problems, human resource problems; Lack of necessary infrastructure. According to these results, it can be said that the use of virtual education system for in-service training courses can solve some of the problems and inefficiencies of in-service training of teachers, including inconsistent training with changes in textbooks, time, place and Eliminate educational resources and pave the way for the emergence of new methods of teacher education such as electronic and virtual methods.
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