Identification and structural analysis of the interactional effect of the change drivers on the field of education

Due to its wide range and importance, the education system has very important and complex elements that if we neglect to monitor their future variations, it can lead to undeniable and profound damages to the results that are expected to be achieved by societies. In the present paper, it has been tried to investigate and identify the change drivers in the field of the world’s education through text mining in global valid documents and then, measure and discuss the impact of the identified drivers on each other through holding the Delphi conference among the experts. After that, the position of each driver was analyzed and investigated through the Micmac software. The findings indicated that the drivers of “globalization (internationalization of education)”, “diversity”, “global internet network (social networks)”, “transition from educating to learning”, “identification and the use of better patterns” and “technological and digital development” have a great influence on other drivers and they are also influenced greatly by such drivers. The drivers of “economic welfare and the middle class increase” and “individualism (learning privatization)” are considered as the effective drivers. The drivers of “STEM Development (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)” and “integration of education and educational content” are independent of other drivers. Finally, the driver of “lack of focus or the end of the formal organized programs (designing systems with more flexibility)” is considered as the output and result of the action and reaction of other drivers of the system that are regarded as the dependent drivers in this study. The results suggest that moving slowly but steadily towards decentralization and not resisting against such changes could prevent the education system of just modeling the education system from the results of other education systems in the world, far from native contributions and could promise a bright and clear future.