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Educational Technology in Learning

Educational Technology in Learning is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 8.5k research works in it since 1957. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of digital technology and education in the 21st century, covering topics such as online learning, educational technology, pedagogical approaches, e-learning, blogs in education, open education, virtual learning environments, inclusive education, and the use of social media in education.

  • Digital Education
  • Online Learning
  • Educational Technology
  • Pedagogy
  • E-Learning
  • Blogs in Education
  • Open Education
  • Virtual Learning Environments
  • Inclusive Education
  • Social Media in Education
Research works
8.5k
fractional, since 1957
In the world top 10%
832
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educational Technology in Learning

Which countries lead Educational Technology in Learning research?

By volume, Spain and Ecuador publish the most (557 and 298 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 557 works
  2. 2 Ecuador 298 works
  3. 3 Mexico 252 works
  4. 4 Colombia 163 works
  5. 5 Brazil 144 works
  6. 6 Peru 112 works
  7. 7 Argentina 98 works
  8. 8 ?? 80 works
  9. 9 Chile 77 works
  10. 10 United States 48 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Spain: 30.4%Ecuador: 16.3%Mexico: 13.8%Colombia: 8.9%6 others listed: 30.6%30%largest
Spain557 · 30.4%Ecuador298 · 16.3%Mexico252 · 13.8%Colombia163 · 8.9%6 others listed559 · 30.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Educational Technology in Learning research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ação Educativa publishes the most Educational Technology in Learning research, followed by Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador and Universidad César Vallejo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ação EducativaBrazil 62 works
  2. 2 Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador 49 works
  3. 3 Universidad César VallejoPeru 40 works
  4. 4 Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 30 works
  5. 5 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 30 works
  6. 6 Universidad de GranadaSpain 25 works
  7. 7 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 25 works
  8. 8 Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 24 works
  9. 9 Universidad de SevillaSpain 24 works
  10. 10 University of GuayaquilEcuador 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Educational Technology in Learning?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Educational Technology in Learning include Manuel Cardona.

  1. 1 Manuel Cardona Germany 79k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Educational Technology in Learning?

The most cited paper in Educational Technology in Learning is "The Use of Moodle e-learning Platform: A Study in a Portuguese University" (Carolina Costa, Helena Alvelos, Leonor C. Teixeira, 2012), with 280 citations. Next come "A Blended-learning Pedagogical Model for Teaching and Learning EFL Successfully Through an Online Interactive Multimedia Environment" (255) and "The use and misuse of student evaluations of teaching" (225).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Use of Moodle e-learning Platform: A Study in a Portuguese University Carolina Costa, Helena Alvelos, Leonor C. Teixeira · Procedia Technology Open access 2012 280
2 A Blended-learning Pedagogical Model for Teaching and Learning EFL Successfully Through an Online Interactive Multimedia Environment Emerita Bañados · CALICO Journal Aug 2006 255
3 The use and misuse of student evaluations of teaching Francisco Javier Aguirre Zabaleta · Teaching in Higher Education 12 Jan 2007 225
4 When IDLE Hands Make an English Workshop: Informal Digital Learning of English and Language Proficiency Ju Seong Lee, Mark Dressman · TESOL Quarterly 29 Nov 2017 201
5 Educação a distância na internet: abordagens e contribuições dos ambientes digitais de aprendizagem María Elizabeth Bianconcini de Almeida · Educação e Pesquisa Open access Dec 2003 189
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Educational Technology in Learning research done?

The largest centres of Educational Technology in Learning research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), São Paulo (Brazil), Mexico City (Mexico) and Guayaquil (Ecuador). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Durán, Portoviejo and Loja.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 94 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 75 works
  3. 3 Mexico CityMexico 65 works
  4. 4 GuayaquilEcuador 64 works
  5. 5 BogotáColombia 63 works
  6. 6 Durán 49 works
  7. 7 LimaPeru 44 works
  8. 8 TrujilloPeru 44 works
  9. 9 ValenciaSpain 42 works
  10. 10 BarcelonaSpain 38 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Durán48.7 works255×
  2. PortoviejoEC · 27.6 works77×
  3. LojaEC · 21.9 works61×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Educational Technology in Learning than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Educational Technology in Learning?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad César Vallejo, Universidad Indoamérica and Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 18.33%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Indoamér…Universidad César Va…Universidad Bolivari…Universitat de Barce…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universidad César VallejoPeru 66.820.9%78.9×40 +497.6%
2Universidad IndoaméricaEcuador 62.243.1%61.4×8 +596.0%
3Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador 61.017.2%333.4×49 -
4Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 57.49.9%17.5×25 +21.6%
5Universidad Internacional De La RiojaSpain 57.120.2%86.1×20 +122.5%
6University of GuayaquilEcuador 56.617.9%78.0×23 +158.5%
7Universidad de SevillaSpain 55.713.0%22.5×24 +7.4%
8Universitat de ValènciaSpain 54.911.5%29.2×30 +10.2%
9Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 53.714.1%90.5×24 +394.7%
10Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 53.515.5%146.0×30 -

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Educational Technology in Learning, country by country

Is Educational Technology in Learning research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Educational Technology in Learning.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Educational Technology in Learning as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Educational Technology in Learning0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Educational Technology in Learning over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Educational Technology in Learning9.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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