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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Year : 2016  |  Volume : 2  |  Issue : 3  |  Page : 188-195

How to integration of information and communication technology with Elements of Undergraduate Program Curriculum in Educational Sciences of Farhangian University in Tehran and evaluation from the perspective of students and related professors


Department of Educational Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

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Reza Fazlalizadeh
Department of Educational Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran
Iran
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DOI: 10.4103/2395-2296.183534

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Aims: This study is to investigate the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) with Elements of Undergraduate Program Curriculum in Educational Sciences of Farhangian University in Tehran from the perspective of students and related professors to optimize the mentioned curriculum. Methods: This is an evaluation study, and the researcher has utilized “field research.” The studied population includes: 921 undergraduate students in Educational Sciences and Professors of Educational Sciences, including 92 people who are teaching in different majors of Educational sciences accordingly, among 921 people a sample of 120 students and among 92 educational sciences experts 45 subjects were selected and random cluster sampling method was used. To determine the sample size in this study Morgan's table was used. Data collection tools included a researcher made questionnaire which consists of 50 questions of five-point Likert scale. Before the final implementation of the questionnaire, to ensure the applicability of the questionnaire “pilot implementation” was done. Face and content validity of the questionnaire were confirmed with the opinion of the professors and experts in this field and its reliability was calculated 96.5%, using Cronbach's alpha. In the area of inferential statistics, Chi-square test was used to study and analyze the data. Results: Show the same distribution of opinions of students and professors to use and integrate ICT to explain 4 elements of the curriculum. Conclusion: At the end a model of the integration of (ICT) to optimize the elements of the curriculum at Undergraduate Program Curriculum in Educational Sciences of Farhangian University in proposed which considers different levels of integration in the curriculum, including within field, interdisciplinary, integrated, and interdependent. The results of this research are a strategy for the development and integration of ICT curriculum elements with Farhangian university curriculum and national curriculum document.


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