Procedures and methods of e-learning curriculum producing in distance education universities: case study about Anadolu Open University (Turkey) allama iqbal opens university (Pakistan) and Malaysia Open University

The main purpose of this research is to investigate procedures and methods of e-learning curriculum producing in distance education universities and presenting practical descriptions for Piam e Noor University of Iran. With developing information & communication technologies (ICT), distance education universities gradually in order to improving curriculum quality has changed their correspondence curriculum to e- learning. During the last couple of years Piam e Noor University has started producing e- learning curriculum. For doing this, using experiences of countries that are neighborhood relation with iran, and have culturally, population rate and socially similarities to Iran can help to this university in providing effective e- learning curriculum. Main question of this research is; what operations to do distance education universities for producing e-learning curriculum (such as producing and presenting content, designing learning activities, student’s support system, teaching methods and evaluation methods? In this research three universities (Anadolu open University in Turkish, allama iqbal open university in Pakistan and Malaysia Open University) based on purposeful sampling were selected. Data gathering about e-learning curriculum producing in these universities were done by Google advanced search, Google scholar search, Emerald, Science direct, Pro quest and Sage data bases. Also we used email connection with e- learning developers in these universities. For analyzing gathered data we used qualitative analyzing methods like coding and categorizing. One can draw from the finding of this research for e-learning curriculum design in Piam e noor university.