Arash Khodabakhsh; Hossein Ali Taghipour; Mehran Mokhtari Baye Kalaei
Abstract
Purpose: In our country, most universities are in the first generation and a limited number of them are in the second generation, and the third and fourth generations of universities in Iran have not been seriously considered yet. Accordingly, many graduates do not succeed in the market due to lack of ...
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Purpose: In our country, most universities are in the first generation and a limited number of them are in the second generation, and the third and fourth generations of universities in Iran have not been seriously considered yet. Accordingly, many graduates do not succeed in the market due to lack of entrepreneurial skills. Therefore, it is essential that the university, as the source of all changes in society, be at the forefront of the entrepreneurial process, and in order to change educational and research patterns and change students' skills and abilities, they must change their education strategy and train entrepreneurial and creative people. In fact, third and fourth generation universities are education-oriented, research-oriented and knowledge-based universities that seek to create value and wealth by developing effective knowledge and entrepreneurship. Curricula, as the heart of higher education, must be aligned with the indicators of this generation of academics in order to pave the way for progress in line with these indicators. The fourth generation universities provide the ground for the realization of up-to-date progress and in accordance with the requirements that are commensurate with the development of changing knowledge and technology. The present study was conducted with the aim of providing a curriculum model for fourth generation universities in Iran.Methodology: The research method was fundamental in terms of purpose and mixed (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of implementation method. The qualitative community consisted of experts and professors of Iranian university educational planning in the academic year 2020-21, according to the principle of theoretical saturation, 17 of them were selected as a sample by snowball and targeted sampling methods. The quantitative population consisted of all students of higher education centers throughout Iran in the academic year 1399-400, according to the Cochran's formula, 384 of them were selected as a sample by multi-stage cluster sampling. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect information in the qualitative section and a researcher-made questionnaire was used in the quantitative section, and their psychometric indices were confirmed. Data were analyzed by coding methods in MAXQDA software and heuristic factor analysis and structural equation modeling in SPSS and LISREL software.Findings: The findings of the qualitative section showed that 51 indicators in the form of 7 categories of educational approach based on peer education, action-based education, facilitating simulated opportunities, attention to group learning methods, self-directed and self-directed learning, activities based on exploratory learning and new methods Teaching was identified. The findings of the quantitative section showed that 17 items were removed due to a factor load of less than 0.30 and the initial questionnaire was reduced from 51 items to 34 items. , According to group learning methods, self-directed and self-directed learning, activities based on exploratory learning and new teaching methods, all of which have a factor load of more than 0.70, the mean variance of all of them is higher than 0.60 and the reliability of all of them is higher than It was 0.80 that their factor loading was confirmed due to being higher than 0.30, their mean extracted variance was confirmed due to being higher than 0.50 and their reliability was confirmed due to being higher than 0.70. Other results showed that the curriculum for fourth generation universities on all seven categories of peer-to-peer educational approach, action-based education, simulated opportunities, attention to group learning methods, self-directed and self-directed learning, exploratory learning-based activities and new methods. Teaching had a direct and significant effect (P <0.05).Conclusion: Considering the identification of seven categories and the direct and significant effect of the current research curriculum on the seven categories, planning to improve the curriculum for fourth generation universities through the seven categories mentioned above is necessary.
