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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.

Introduction: Considering the transformations and developments of the contemporary societies, e-learning education plays a significant role in gaining access to education everywhere, at all time and for everyone. The aim of this study is to investigate the challenges of effective implementation of e-learning courses at Payame Noor University of Dehloran. Methods: The method used in this research is a descriptive study which employed the survey method. The statistical population comprises 1823 students at PNU of Dehloran in 2014 and 318 (109 males and 209 females) of them were selected as sample by using Morgan and Krejcie table. The tool for collecting data was a researcher-made questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was verified by experts and the reliability was found as 0.86 by using Cronbach's Alpha. The data were analyzed via Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, sample T and Binomial proportions using the SPSS software, version 20. Results:The results illustrated that the behavioral, educational, technical challenges and challenges of human are necessary for effective implementation of e-learning courses in student's view. Conclusions: In terms of infrastructure, promotion, facilitating and achieving the goals of Payame Noor University, it is necessary that policymakers and planners of Payame Noor University study the current situation, challenges and limitations of e-learning education before implementing e-learning courses. This can make them move toward the vision of PMU.