Twenty-five years of education and information technologies: Insights from a topic modeling based bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Education and Information Technologies (EAIT) has been a leading journal in education & educational research since 1996. To celebrate its 25th anniversary and provide a comprehensive overview of the field, a topic modeling-based bibliometric analysis was conducted on the articles published in this journal. The study is constructed upon two methods, bibliometric analysis, and topic modeling. The study aims to find out the trends in publications and citations, prominent countries, affiliations and the status of authors, the prominent topics, and the thematic characteristics of these topics, as well as research interests and trends. The results show that the articles are grouped under the 21 topics. The top five most studied of them have been determined as "Technology acceptance", "Social networkbased learning", "Teacher education", "Satisfaction of e-learning" and "E-learning". Finally, the acceleration results of each topic within itself and compared to other topics show that the most accelerated topic is "Gamification", while the most accelerated topic compared to other topics has been determined as "Technology acceptance". The general results of the study shed light on future studies in terms of determining the research interests and trends of publications in the field of educational technologies, EAIT.

Exploring research trends of technology use in mathematics education: A scoping review using topic modeling

“…The seven topics found in this study were not aligned with previous literature reviews on educational technology (e.g., Chen et al, 2020 ; Ozyurt & Ayaz, 2022 ; Tatnall & Fluck, 2022 ). In a study examining research trends of BJET , Chen et al ( 2020 ) identified 15 topics relating to a teacher (e.g., teacher education), learning strategies (e.g., problem-based learning, game-based learning, mobile-assisted language learning, socialized e-learning), learning environment (e.g., online social communities), evaluation (assessment and feedback), and other areas (e.g., early childhood education in the digital age and review studies).…”

“…Since 2000, researchers studying educational technologies have become more concerned with new learning strategies with emerging technologies that could enhance student collaboration and autonomy, such as e-learning, mobile and blended learning, and social network-based learning (Ozyurt & Ayaz, 2022 ; Tatnall & Fluck, 2022 ). These topics, however, were not identified in our study.…”

“…They reported the following research trends: evaluation and software (1996–2000), case study and pedagogy (2001–2005), collaboration and learning efficacy (2006–2010), the emergence of e‐learning (2011–2015), and mobile and blended learning (2015–2020). Similarly, Ozyurt and Ayaz ( 2022 ) analyzed research trends in the EAIT journal and reported that technology acceptance and social network-based learning were the most studied topics during the past 25 years. Additionally, the gamification topic showed the highest acceleration rate in popularity.…”

“…The introduction and expansion of technology in education have tremendously changed the educational environment. It has transformed not only curricula, educational resources, textbooks, and classroom environment but also teacher instructional practices and student learning styles (Akapame et al, 2019 ; Chen et al, 2020 ; Clements et al, 2013 ; Hoyles, 2018 ; Ozyurt & Ayaz, 2022 ; Roschelle et al, 2017 ), which led to different student achievement, motivation, and attitudes (Bicer & Capraro, 2016 ; Higgins et al, 2019 ).…”

Research Trends and Applications of Gamification in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Analysis Spanning 2013–2022

“…It can be inferred that the terms "gamification", "higher education", "motivation", "game-based learning", "education", and "e-learning" have greater impact, suggesting the hot topics of gamification research in higher education. In brief, it indicates that this topic has gained an important place among educational technology researchers in the last decade [50]. The author keywords are considered essential to analyze in the current study due to the fact that the keywords of an author generally represent the content of the paper [51].…”