(Investigating the effects of online education on the professional ethics of academic staff during the epidemic of the Covid-19 virus)

The sudden and inevitable encounter of the country's higher education with online education in the last two years and after the epidemic of the Covid-19 virus has necessitated the need to examine the effects of this educational method on different aspects of professors' performance in the classroom. The present study was conducted to identify and prioritize online education's effects on university faculty members' professional ethics during the Covid-19 pandemic.  

The statistical The current research is practical type, and post-event in terms of the time dimension. Also, according to the investigated problem, the qualitative approach and thematic analysis method have been used.  the   population of this research is made up of 85 faculty members of the University of Science and Culture, and the theoretical saturation of the data has been achieved by collaborating 14 of them through purposive sampling. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview. The method of data analysis was the interpretative analysis approach and the theme network analysis method Discussion &

The findings of the research showed that there are a total of 46 categories in the form of three general themes (individual, communicational and proficiency) and from different motivational, legal, behavioral, educational and research aspects, in connection with the observance of professional ethics by the participating academic staff members in the research, it has been extracted. The personal theme has been identified as the most important theme, covering nearly half of the frequency of the extracted primary concepts. " proficiency " theme with about one third and “communicational” theme with covering about one fifth of basic concepts are placed in the next categories. The results of the research showed that online education has caused faculty members to prioritize the legal and university's legal and educational rules and requirements, and can evaluate online education on actions related to professional ethics apply themselves; On the other hand, interactive and motivational aspects related to the professional ethics of faculty members have been recognized as weak. If the university is satisfied with monitoring the contractual forms of professional ethics of academic staff members and only shows sensitivity towards observing these aspects, the academic staff members will also use their efforts to strengthen these aspects and they will make less effort to strengthen other mainly ritualistic aspects of professional ethics such as fairness, respecting students' rights, fostering interaction and communication with students, and the like.