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The aim of this study is to validate MOOC-based curriculum in higher education in Iran. The research method is mixed and of exploratory type. Method of grounded theory is used in the qualitative section and the Validation Test Pattern among the faculties and PhD students of Tehran's Universities is considered in the quantitative part. The statistical population of the qualitative section include 14 experts in educational technology and the quantitative section include 214 members of the faculties and PhD students of Tehran's Universities who were chosen by Stratified random sampling. To collect data, we used semi-structured interview in the qualitative section and scholar's questionnaire in the quantitative part. Results show that there are 28 general issues in paradigmatic model is obtained which included Terms of cause, Central phenomenon, Underlying conditions, Confounding conditions, Strategies and Implications that reflected effective factor in MOOC-based Curricula in higher education.

The purpose of this study was to explore and delineate the curriculum of global citizenship education in elementary schools of Iran's educational system and to develop an exploratory model. In this exploratory research, based on the grounded theory, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 34 active members in the field of global citizenship. The themes and sub-themes of the curriculum of global citizenship education and their associations were explored within three steps of open, axial, and selective coding. To generalize the results of the qualitative phase and to validate the resulting model, a questionnaire was designed and completed by 387 elementary school teachers in Tehran, Iran. The analysis process in the qualitative phase included twelve themes of attention to necessity, goals, content, teacher’s role, teaching-learning methods, evaluation, time, location, materials and resources, organizational factors, implicit learning, and program outcomes. In the quantitative phase, the hypotheses derived from the qualitative analysis were confirmed. Finally, according to the findings and the results, some guidelines are provided for implementing the program.

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