A Case Study of Requirements and Challenges of Information and Communication Technology System to Train Private Agricultural Insurance Brokers
Maryam Omidi Najafabadi, Jamal Farajollah Hosseini, Mehdi Mirdamadi · American-Asian-Journal of agricultural & environmental sciences/American-Eurasian journal of agricultural & environmental sciences · 2009
The Agricultural Insurance Fund (AIF) in Iran has hired private sectors named brokers to implement an agricultural insurance scheme. AIF has spent considerable time, effort and money to train brokers. Unfortunately, many of their investments are met with disappointing results and traditional education is no longer effective. To overcome this problem, an information and communication technology (ICT)-based training system seems the best solution. This study was conducted to identify challenges and requirements of ICT-based training system. Our results are given using newly developed and sophisticated statistical technique. Namely, using the ordinal factor analysis (available in statistical Lisrel 8.8), we classified the challenges and requirements respectively into six and four latent variables: organizational, social, human, legal, financial and technical challenges and instructional, organizational, technical, cultural requirements. Finally a conceptual framework is presented for the challenges and requirements of ICT training system.