Presentation of Virtual Curriculum Implementation Pattern Based on the Participatory Learning Approach in Higher Education

The purpose of the present research was to extract the effective components of the virtual curriculum in order to achieve common points in previous research and present a framework for implementing virtual curriculum with collaborative approach. The research method is qualitative and based on the synthesis strategy. The statistical population consist of the resources related to the purpose of the research. In total, out of 112 researches, 49 samples were selected purposefully, and the effective components of the curriculum of virtual universities extracted and, by analyzing them a framework for presentation of virtual curriculum in virtual universities was presented. The results of the analysis show that the most important components are effective components include participation components, input components, evaluation, logic and infrastructure. In the following, the effective components of the virtual curriculum based on the participatory approach and not the identification factor which included the component of the participation return, group composition, technology component, job assignments, group roles, processes and training, time, group skill instruction, are learners' prior knowledge and incentives were surveyed and described.