Designing a comprehensive organizational e-learning model using the meta-synthesis method

Introduction:Management knowledge in the new centuryis important more than anythingforcontinuous change and development and an organization that is not adapted with these waves is doomed to. The present study tries using the meta-synthesis method to design a comprehensiveorganizational e-learning model. Method: This study is a qualitative study, its method is heuristic, in terms of time it is sectionaland in terms of the purpose is developmentaland applied. This research method is a kind of meta-synthesis method that in order to implement the method the seven-stage model ofSandelowski and Barroso (2007) was used. In this study, after designing research questions, a systematic search of databases of Persian and English papers based on keywords related toorganizational e-learning and all related and available papers were collected and reviewed from 1992 to the end of 2015.In other words, to design research model, no sampling was done; also in order to assess the content validity of the model,professors and expertsʹ opinions inthe field of e-learning were used and to assess its reliability Kappa indicator was used. Results: After performing 7 stages of the meta-synthesis method, a model was designed with 12 groups (intellectual capital management, e-learning practices, learning facilitating factors, technical infrastructure, educational infrastructure, the people involved, individual factors, information, technical features, training, strategic management and communication), 49 concepts and 531 codes. Conclusion: According to the desired reliability and validityof the model designed based on professors and expertsʹ opinions, this model can be useful to recognize and plan e-learning system in organizations.