Development of an Ontological Model of Environmental Education in the Distance Education System with Emphasis on Quranic Verses

This research aims to design an ontological model of environmental education with emphasis on Quranic verses. Absolute existence belongs to God, and other beings are the creatures of this existence. Recognition of nature as a manifestation of divine truth and verse and the conquest and enjoyment of it is another important educational goal of Islam. In recent decades, serious and growing concerns about environmental and nature crises have been raised in scientific circles; Most of those crises are rooted in a lack of awareness. In fact, public environmental education is the key to tackling this problem; In the age of information and communication technology, in the form of distance education, is noteworthy. In the present study, qualitative methodology and grounded theory method have been used. Fundamental theory is a method based on qualitative methodology. The field of research in qualitative research is equivalent to the statistical population in quantitative research. After the presence of the researcher in the research field, until the theoretical saturation was reached, the various categories were interviewed and the data taken from the initial interviews were used to construct more accurate subsequent interviews. In this study, theoretical sampling and purposive sampling were used. The results of this research led to the design of an ontology model of environmental education in the distance education system with emphasis on Quranic verses.