The Change in Approach of the Higher Education Development Decision Making in Iran from Traditional Method to Systematic MethodBased on Information Technology

ABSTRACT: Currently, there exist plenty of issues and problems in the higher education development in Iran, from which the following items can be indicated: existence of a governmental and centralized structure and not benefiting from the participation management system, lack of long- term and strategic programs in university development, not paying enough attention to observing scientific regulations and criteria in establishment of university majors, not paying any regards to complications, interactions with the surrounding environment and various functions of the university, application of personal and bias tastes, existence of inconsistency in ratifications related to higher education with needs of the country, lack of coordination between quality and quantity development of educational fields in universities, also lack of optimum use of the knowledge of higher education experts and also information technology in this field. Based on conducted studies, benefiting from information technology and systems based on knowledge can overcome a part of the mentioned limitations and problems.The goal of this article is the evaluating and accrediting the higher education development fuzzy expert system and comparing the obtained results from the expert system as a decision making aid system, with factual results obtained from the opinion of experts in the higher education development in Iran. In this article while presenting a short explanation regarding the manner of designing and implementing the higher education development fuzzy expert system in Iran, attention will be paid to the assessment of the system by the output analysis method and also to accrediting by the case study method. The outcome gained from this project manifests the authenticity of the performance of the system and the possibility to apply thereof as a decision making aid system in regard to higher education development in Iran.