Investigating the challenges of smart schools development in Iran

Societies’ change from traditional to knowledge-based ones and the need to use the new communicative conditions leads in universal movement in the developed and developing countries to change the educational structure. The country’s authorities understood the change in global circumstances well and this is realized in the ministry of education’s approved documents. The authorities are completely aware that in a knowledge -based society, it is worth to produce science and knowledge. Smart schools can be considered as an educational setting which makes the fulfillment of knowledge-based society possible. In this paper, using the survey research method, the smart schools’ development challenges in Iran would be investigated and some strategies would be offered to meet these challenges.