Content Analysis of Curriculum Syllabus for the Educational Technology Discipline Based on Entrepreneurial Competencies
Journal Title: UNKNOWN - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 4
Abstract
Background: Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with knowledge, skills, attitudes, and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. The purpose of the present study was to perform content analysis of curriculum syllabus for the educational technology discipline based on entrepreneurial competencies. Methods: The research population consisted of all 763 academic curriculums of the educational technology discipline at the University of Tehran during years 2016 to 2017, where the census sampling method was used for their selection. To select them, the purposive sampling method in the entrepreneurs section and census sampling method in the educational technology course syllabus section were used. The research tool in this study was a semi-structured interview and a content analysis checklist was used. This study used a summative qualitative content analysis approach. Initially, interviews were carried out with 12 entrepreneurs to extract entrepreneurial competencies. Then, based on their competencies, a content analysis checklist, including 46 entrepreneurial competencies, was designed in a subset of 6 categories, so that the presence of entrepreneurial competencies in the syllabus of the undergraduate educational technology curriculum was analyzed. To determine the validity of the tool, content validity was used and a check list was provided to three educational specialists and was approved and used after correction. The content analysis construct validity was verified by supervisors, consultants, and entrepreneurs and its reliability was calculated as 94% using William Scott’s method. Results: The results showed that the presence of entrepreneurship competency structure among the curriculum syllabus of educational technology at Tehran University did not have a desirable condition. Conclusions: Therefore, it is imperative that higher education professionals and curriculum developers should take the necessary steps to push students towards entrepreneurship in terms of reviewing the curriculum in educational technology at Tehran University.
Authors and Affiliations
Ahmad Malekipour, Rezvan Hakimzadeh, Marzieh Dehghani, Mohammad Reza Zali
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP303094
- DOI 10.5812/ijvlms.62156
- Views 75
- Downloads 0
Assessing and Evaluating the Effect of Information and Communication Technology on Improving Teaching and Learning Levels among Secondary School Students: A Case of Razi Vocational School in Marivan
Background: Nowadays, the ability of information and communication technology (ICT) in removing teaching and learning difficulties has caused ICT to be the core of most educational systems. This research aimed to study t...
Investigating the Factors Affecting the Intention to Use E-Learning from the Viewpoint of Higher Education Students
Background E-learning has been considered one of the outstanding applications of information and communicat...
Application of Virtual Reality Simulators and Virtual Labs in Medical Education
-
Presenting a Framework for Effective E-Mentoring Relationships in Medical Sciences: A Meta-Synthesis Method
Background: Mentoring is used as a developmental model in many academic disciplines including clinical medicine and public health sciences. An effective relationship between the instructor or faculty member and the stude...
The Teaching Methods in Translation Courses: E-Learning Resources
Context This study was carried out during the second semester of academic year 2017 - 2018 at the Islamic A...