Innovative Education and Learning Practices

Innovative Education and Learning Practices is a research topic within Human Factors and Ergonomics. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1951. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores workplace learning, informal and formal learning, communities of practice, expansive learning, and the application of activity theory in understanding learning in professional work settings. It delves into the role of Vygotsky's theories, boundary crossing, and tacit knowledge in shaping learning experiences within organizations.

Workplace Learning
Activity Theory
Informal Learning
Communities of Practice
Expansive Learning
Vygotsky
Professional Work
Boundary Crossing
Formal Learning
Tacit Knowledge

Research works: 13k
In the world top 10%: 1.3k
Top-10% rate: 10.1%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +19%
Largest producer: United States

Innovative Education and Learning Practices

Which countries lead Innovative Education and Learning Practices research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (531 and 387 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 531 works
2 United Kingdom 387 works
3 Australia 237 works
4 China 165 works
5 Norway 139 works
6 Sweden 137 works
7 Germany 132 works
8 South Africa 123 works
9 Canada 120 works
10 Denmark 94 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.

United States531 · 25.7%United Kingdom387 · 18.7%Australia237 · 11.5%China165 · 8.0%6 others listed745 · 36.1%

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

Which institutions lead Innovative Education and Learning Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Monash University publishes the most Innovative Education and Learning Practices research, followed by University of Gothenburg and Griffith University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Monash UniversityAustralia 22 works
2 University of GothenburgSweden 20 works
3 Griffith UniversityAustralia 20 works
4 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 19 works
5 Linköping UniversitySweden 18 works
6 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 18 works
7 Stockholm UniversitySweden 16 works
8 Deakin UniversityAustralia 15 works
9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 15 works
10 University of South-Eastern NorwayNorway 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Innovative Education and Learning Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Innovative Education and Learning Practices include Étienne Wenger.

1 Étienne Wenger United States 146k 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 Innovative Education and Learning Practices?

The most cited paper in Innovative Education and Learning Practices is "Toward a Theory of Social Practices" (Andreas Reckwitz, 2002), with 5,470 citations. Next come "The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research" (3,417) and "Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind" (3,358).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Toward a Theory of Social Practices Andreas Reckwitz · European Journal of Social Theory	May 2002	5,470
2	The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research Stephen Kemmis, Robin McTaggart, Rhonda Nixon	12 Nov 2013	3,417
3	Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind Alex Kozulin, James V. Wertsch · The American Journal of Psychology	1987	3,358
4	Design-Based Research: Putting a Stake in the Ground Sasha Alexander Barab, Kurt D. Squire · Journal of the Learning Sciences	2004	2,610
5	Informal learning in the workplace Michael R. Eraut · Studies in Continuing Education Open access	Jul 2004	2,580

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Where is Innovative Education and Learning Practices research done?

The largest centres of Innovative Education and Learning Practices research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Brisbane (Australia) and Oslo (Norway).

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 LondonUnited Kingdom 64 works
2 MelbourneAustralia 53 works
3 BrisbaneAustralia 45 works
4 OsloNorway 42 works
5 SydneyAustralia 35 works
6 BeijingChina 34 works
7 AarhusDenmark 29 works
8 SingaporeSingapore 24 works
9 GothenburgSweden 23 works
10 StockholmSweden 23 works

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Where is the best place to study Innovative Education and Learning Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, Monash University, University College London and University of Jyväskylä 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Monash UniversityAustralia	71.7	19.6%	8.2×	22	-10.5%
2	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	69.4	26.4%	3.3×	15	-19.5%
3	University of JyväskyläFinland	66.7	13.1%	26.4×	13	+28.1%
4	Griffith UniversityAustralia	66.4	15.0%	17.0×	20	-17.7%
5	University of GothenburgSweden	64.3	11.3%	15.3×	20	+15.1%
6	Linköping UniversitySweden	62.0	9.0%	23.6×	18	+29.5%
7	Stockholm UniversitySweden	62.0	14.5%	16.4×	16	+10.8%
8	University of HelsinkiFinland	62.0	15.9%	7.2×	14	-46.2%
9	Education University of Hong KongChina	58.6	18.7%	22.2×	9	+72.4%
10	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	55.9	17.1%	4.8×	11	+59.2%
11	Lancaster UniversityUnited Kingdom	53.5	8.9%	17.0×	12	+38.0%
12	The University of SydneyAustralia	52.4	14.9%	3.8×	13	-7.1%
13	Deakin UniversityAustralia	51.1	10.8%	12.1×	15	-16.9%
14	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	50.1	9.6%	5.4×	12	+10.0%
15	Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway	49.7	10.1%	8.6×	14	+2.6%
16	University of South-Eastern NorwayNorway	49.0	7.2%	55.3×	15	+110.0%
17	University of OsloNorway	47.6	16.6%	6.4×	11	-29.6%
18	Beijing Normal UniversityChina	47.6	14.5%	4.5×	10	+120.4%
19	Aarhus UniversityDenmark	45.1	5.6%	8.0×	19	-25.3%
20	University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom	45.1	13.0%	6.2×	11	+123.8%
21	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	44.6	10.0%	2.6×	10	+2.4%
22	Charles Sturt UniversityAustralia	44.3	12.7%	26.4×	10	+10.3%
23	Tampere UniversityFinland	44.0	15.7%	10.3×	9	-21.9%
24	University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom	43.3	10.0%	4.9×	10	+15.0%
25	University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa	42.4	10.2%	8.8×	11	+82.6%
26	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom	42.0	16.5%	3.6×	9	-0.6%
27	Aalborg UniversityDenmark	41.5	4.3%	11.1×	18	-39.1%
28	Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia	39.3	17.0%	8.6×	8	+15.8%
29	Umeå UniversitySweden	38.6	9.1%	14.5×	10	+40.1%
30	University of AucklandNew Zealand	37.7	2.3%	7.1×	11	+13.4%
31	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States	37.7	6.6%	3.0×	9	+11.0%
32	OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan UniversityNorway	37.0	8.3%	39.6×	11	-39.5%
33	University of South AfricaSouth Africa	33.6	4.3%	10.4×	13	+47.4%
34	University of AgderNorway	30.8	2.2%	34.9×	10	+150.3%
35	Australian Catholic UniversityAustralia	30.2	9.3%	31.3×	9	-0.7%
36	University of British ColumbiaCanada	29.5	14.0%	2.4×	8	-10.1%
37	Western Norway University of Applied SciencesNorway	28.6	7.0%	53.5×	10	-13.1%
38	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States	27.2	7.1%	3.5×	8	+238.0%
39	University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa	25.9	3.6%	9.0×	9	+80.0%
40	The University of MelbourneAustralia	23.4	5.9%	3.1×	10	-10.7%

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 Innovative Education and Learning Practices, country by country

Is Innovative Education and Learning Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Innovative Education and Learning Practices.

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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 Innovative Education and Learning Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

Fractional works of Innovative Education and Learning Practices 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.

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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Which countries lead Innovative Education and Learning Practices research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Innovative Education and Learning Practices research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Innovative Education and Learning Practices?

What are the most cited papers in Innovative Education and Learning Practices?

Where is Innovative Education and Learning Practices research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where is the best place to study Innovative Education and Learning Practices?

Is Innovative Education and Learning Practices research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion