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The purpose of present study was to investigate the considerations in developing the content with learning society approach and challenges that higher education is faced with. In this quantitative - qualitative study, views of 24 experts and administrators from public universities through interviews and views of 153 faculty members through a questionnaire survey are reviewed. Instrument content validity was confirmed by experts in curriculum planning and the reliability by Cronbach's alpha was estimated 0.96. Findings of the study suggest that in order to develop a content with learning society approach, It is necessary to observe the criteria, such as the emphasis on quality rather than quantity of content, providing flexible and varied content, appropriateness of content with the aim of developing lifelong learner, support of teacher for changing the content, using other learning sources besides the textbook and student participation in selecting content. Universities are faceing to challenges in respect of these considerations. Totally, there is no significant difference (α>0.05) in terms of demographic variables on these challenges among the view of faculty members.