The current research identifies the effective factors in e-learning courses, which have been introduced as the most important element in the education process by various theorists. It is a qualitative and fundamental research, a meta-composition with data collected by the library method. This study, after designing the research question, searches systematically keywords of e-learning in Iranian and foreign databases including Elsevier, Proquest, Magiran, Springer, SID, and Civilica Google. It extracted 4 major components and 33 sub-components as effective factors in e-learning after studying and examining 27 articles out of 123 found articles. Thus, the main components of effective factors in e-learning include: 1- Individual factors (motivation, attitude, commitment and order), 2- Technological factors (technology in education, quality of digital tools, and telecommunication infrastructure), 3- Scientific Factors (proportion of content, lesson plan, heading and content mastery), 4- Management factors (leadership of process and structure, monitoring the performance of e-learning courses), and 5- Educational factors (feedback, number of people in the class, teaching method, and class participation).

education, e-learning, learning