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Hosseini M, Maghool A, Nasseri N, Zendedel A. Designing an International Model of Higher Education among the National North-Eastern Universities of Iran. Iranian Journal of Medical Education 2019; 19 :494-505
URL: http://ijme.mui.ac.ir/article-1-4992-en.html
Islamic Azad University, Neyshabur, , Ali.Maghool@yahoo.com
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Introduction: The decision regarding internationalization in Iran higher education seems indispensable. This necessity is in line with the implementation of the objectives of Iran’s 20-year vision plan that is, turning country into the supreme scientific power of the region. Therefore, the purpose of this study is developing an international model of higher education among the national North-Eastern Universities of Iran in 2018”.
Methods: This study was a qualitative and quantitative study with an exploratory design which was conducted in 2018. As to the qualitative part, the sample included 18 members of the scientific experts at national universities who were selected by a purposeful method regarding the saturation rule. At the quantitative section, it included 302 experts who were selected using the random stratified sampling. The data collection instrument was semi-structured interview. As to the quantitive part, it was researcher-made questionnaire about the internationalization of higher education. To identify the components at the qualitative part, the content analysis method was used. Also, at the quantitative section, model analysis was done using the structural equations modeling.
Results: The results of the exploratory analysis show that from among the 126 of the indicators, 8 main dimensions are identifiable. To be more specific, the opinions of the reliable professors of this field were asked; the identified dimensions were as follow: political strategies, academic strategies, communicative strategies, the establishment of the special organization, the political structure and relationships, inter-university approaches, service-orienteers, and the flexible leadership. Later on, the model designation was done using Structural Equation Modeling. The t value for the internationalization of higher education dimensions in this research was estimated to be between 16. 33 to 24. 40 which was bigger than the given t value (1.96). The political strategies (F1) had the highest t value, but the political structure and the relationships (F5) had the lowest t value.
Conclusion: Regarding the findings, it could be concluded that, all the aforementioned dimensions have desirable and direct impact on the internationalization of higher education.

 
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Received: 2019/11/6 | Accepted: 2019/12/9 | Published: 2019/04/15 | ePublished: 2019/04/15

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