Analysis of ICT Environment of Smart Schools in Iran

Providing education justice for a population of 18 million of Iranian students distributed in rural and urban areas as our concern has led us to how apply effective Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in schools and how implement smart school perfectly. The objective of this paper is to investigate and analyze current smart school efforts in Iran and propose a solution for them for a long period of development. Although in recent years some efforts have been done for development of smart schools, there is not a defined and an efficient way for establishing ICT environment for smart schools. According to researchers' studies, interviews and inspections on initial activities in development of smart schools in recent few years, we realized that there are several issues on development of smart schools such as lack of electronic contents for all courses, high speed networks and internet lines. In fact, an ICT implementation plan is required for executives to coordinate all programs and activities in development of smart schools for Iran.