An Analysis of Two Decades of Educational Technology Publications by Gloria Natividad J. Michael Spector & Nicholas Evangelopoulos

Author:Gloria Natividad, J. Michael Spector & Nicholas Evangelopoulos
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Singapore

Discussion

We have explored, described, studied, and analyzed the published research articles from ten of the top journals in the Educational Technology field and found that during the last decades, the exponential growth of technology usage in education has influenced the focus and importance of educational technology research. Educational communication and technology researchers’ work has greatly impacted both learners and all educational technology stakeholders, including instructors, designers, and development specialists and funding agencies.

It is then reasonable to continue to look at persistent trends and technologies that might have a positive impact on learning. This will ensure the conversation continues in the dynamic and diverse system of scholarly communication. The approach taken was examining what educational technology scholars had been publishing by means of analyzing the published research articles in the multidisciplinary domain of educational technology, to better understand where the discipline has been, where it is now, and where it may be headed.

All ten of these journals have attracted widespread international contributors and all have significant status within the educational technology field. We have shown you which topic areas and trends they have followed, along with their most-cited articles, most-cited authors in each journal, and the experts who have published in more than one journal. Upon analyzing the high-loaded terms, we can view the framework of the intellectual structure of educational technology.

Overall, this study discloses several interesting findings that help us understand the major conversations in the field. First, the results strongly emphasize learning environments that integrate technology (e.g., technology-related issues, distance education, communication strategies and instructional methods, and learning experiences). The development of teachers, who will then teach children, has been frequently studied in these ten journals; an important challenge to fulfill the needs of today’s students. Teachers development has also been researched and considered vital by the more than 400 technology professionals, campus technologists, faculty leaders from colleges and universities, and representatives of leading corporations from around the world who explore and forecast the impact of emerging technologies across all learning sectors, as shown in Table 5.2, emerging technologies and the challenges to adopt them from the Horizon Reports from the last 10 years (2004–2014).Table 5.2The 3 years that received the highest number of citations for the five top-cited articles published in each of the journals

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