مجله آموزش عالی ایران
سال سیزدهم شماره 2 (پیاپی 50، تابستان 1400)

In the recent decades, Internalization has been one of the most influential events in the higher education systems worldwide. And recruitment of international students, as one of the most effective strategies to achieve the goals of internationalization, has been a common solution to prevail in the competition between countries in the last decade. Therefore, studying these international students’ various experiences and interactions is very important for the destination countries. Purpose of this qualitative study is to investigate the experiences of international students in the Iranian universities. The approach in this research is data collection through semi-structured interviews, collecting the lived-experiences of 28 international students and the research data analysis is based on thematic analysis. Findings are presented in three stages of pre-study challenges, in-study challenges and post-study challenges. The results show that academic challenges, cultural adjustment, language barriers and future job challenges are the most important topics that require more attention from the higher education planners and university administrators to achieve the goals of the International Student Mobility programs.

The present study is the efficiency of Iranian industrial universities using non-parametric methods of data envelopment analysis and random border analysis parameter for input variables (number of incoming students, number of faculty members, number of staff and budget) and output (specific income, Has evaluated the number of students studying, the number of graduates and conference papers) and data extracted from statistical databases and documents of higher education for 20 industrial universities during the academic years 1392-1393 and 1393-1394 . Expressive research results; 1- Existence of inefficiency in university units; 2- Difference in the degree of inefficiency in different university units; 3- Decreasing the average efficiency of all selected universities in 1393 compared to 1394; 4- Decreasing the average educational efficiency and increasing the average research efficiency of selected universities at the time of the study; 6- No heterogeneity of data variance in random boundary analysis test; And 7- Coordination between some explanatory variables, including faculty members and budget in the variance inflation test. In the random border analysis method, in addition to technical inefficiency, random inefficiency and the coefficient of elasticity of inputs on education and research outputs were also estimated to draw a favorable roadmap for policy makers and decision makers of academic units to make effective decisions.

The present study was an exploratory sequential mixed method approach, so the qualitative section of the study was done by descriptive phenomenology method. The participants in the qualitative section included academic administrators with managerial experience who by criterion sampling and saturation in the research findings, 12 were selected for the interview. Research tools in the section were semi-structured interviews and the data analysis was by thematic analysis. In order to get assured of the validity of the data in the section, member-checking was employed. The findings of the qualitative section showed that the challenges of boundary-spanner academic leaders can be categorized into three main categories: individual, organizations, and environment. In the second section of the study; given that the purpose was to validate the main and sub-themes of the qualitative section, so a quantitative survey strategy was used. To collect quantitative data, a researcher-designed questionnaire was applied consisting of 15 questions on a five-point Likert scale and including individual, organizational and environmental challenges. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated Cronbach's alpha coefficient and was obtained for individual (0.813), organizational (0.861), and environmental (0.771) challenges.  For the data analysis, a One-sample t-test and Friedman test were used in SPSS16 software. The results of the section showed that considering that, the mean of individual challenge (4.25), organizational challenge (4.45), and environmental challenge (4.25) was higher than the theoretical mean (3); Therefore, from the perspective of academic administrators and leaders, the score of all dimensions of the challenges was above theoretical mean and based on the value of t at the level (p =0.01), the results were significant. So, each of the discovered dimensions in the qualitative section was highly agreed upon by the participants in the study. Also, the prioritization of the challenges was included, respectively, organizational, individual, and environmental challenges.

The aim of present research was to identify Implementation requirements of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Payam Noor University from an Economic perspective. The methodology used in this study was applied and the method of data collection was qualitative. The components used were based on the documentation and semi-structured interview tools. Inductive content analysis was used in three levels of open, axial and selective in order to review the documents. For a comprehensive identification of the main components and sub-components of the implementation requirements, in addition to reviewing studies conducted in this field, semi-structured interview with 15 field experts in MOOC Course were conducted. The results showed that the implementation requirements of MOOC Course in Payam Noor University from an Economic perspective include eleven main components: Forming an Economic team, setting economic goals from launching and delivering mooc Course, supply and demand, cost and revenue, resources, investors, pricing strategy, business model, preparing and writing a business plan and presenting business model, Marketing and financial and legal Issues and 37 sub-components.

Thesis and dissertation is one of the most important components of the higher education system and its accurate implementation leads to the increase and development of scientific production in any country. The doctoral dissertation can be examined from various aspects, one of which is to pay attention to the guidance approach and do it. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the approaches to doctoral dissertation guidance and its study among students in the current and favorable situation at the University of Isfahan, as one of the parent universities in Iran. The research method is hybrid and exploratory. In the qualitative section, research data were collected using semi-structured interviews with 27 managers, deputies and faculty members. In the quantitative part of the researcher-made questionnaire, among 97 PhD students who are writing their dissertations, it was administered in three educational groups: humanities, technical-engineering and basic sciences. The sampling method is targeted in the qualitative part and in the quantitative part the stratified random method proportional to the volume is used. The validity of the research tool was assessed with the opinion of experts and CVR validity analysis was performed. Findings showed that in dissertation guidance, there are a total of two individual and group approaches, each of which is implemented in three ways. Individual approaches: 1- Student with a supervisor and consultant; 2- Student with more than one supervisor and consultant; 3- Forming the dissertation committee. Group approaches also include: 1- Research groups including: research group of two or more professors and research clusters; 2- Research laboratory; 3- Master-centered research pyramid and research pyramid of the educational group. Analysis of the results in the quantitative section showed that the individual approach is more widely used and is also favored by students. The biggest difference between the current and favorable situation regarding membership in pyramid research groups, which indicates the tendencies of students towards the group approach. The results of analysis of variance and post hoc tests also show a significant difference between the humanities and engineering groups with the basic sciences in terms of individual approaches to the current and desired situation. One of the research suggestions is to provide the necessary infrastructure by university officials to apply group approaches in universities.

One of the main issues in the higher education system is the selection of university professors and the characteristics of guest professors. The purpose of this study was to present a model and ranking the competency of visiting professors, which is located in the North Tehran branch of Azad University Has been done and applied research. In this research, a combined method (qualitative-quantitative) was used. Simultaneously with conducting scientific and research, 16 people from the University of Experts were selected by selecting the method and a semi-structural interview was conducted with them to saturate the theory and rumor model of professors' rumors. The content analysis method was obtained. Based on the merits of the innovative model, a questionnaire was designed and distributed among 5 university experts who were selected by the snowball method. By performing the Delphi process in three steps, a modified model of rumors is obtained. In the model validation stage, a questionnaire was developed and distributed among 285 professors and analyzed the data with Lisrel software. Finally, the professors' rumor model in 3 dimensions (personality, scientific, ethical), 6 components (personal, interpersonal), Professional, general, objective, and subjective) and 33 indicators are presented. To rank the competencies using the hierarchical analysis process, the paired results questionnaire was distributed among 7 people from the University of Experts who were selected by the selected method and the data were analyzed with Expert Choice software. The results showed the competency Personality-Individual with a weight of 0.286 has the most of your qualities. After that, being a scientific-professional rumor with a weight of 0.263, personality-interpersonal competence with a weight of 0.180, moral-objective rumor with a weight of 0.148, moral-mental rumor with a weight of 0.078, and general scientific-competence Weighing 0.046 put it next.