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Innovative Teaching Methods

Innovative Teaching Methods is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 30.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of the flipped classroom model, active learning, peer instruction, and classroom response systems on student engagement and performance in higher education. It discusses various teaching strategies and educational technologies to create an inclusive learning environment and improve learning outcomes.

  • Flipped Classroom
  • Active Learning
  • Peer Instruction
  • Student Engagement
  • Classroom Response Systems
  • Higher Education
  • Teaching Strategies
  • Student Performance
  • Educational Technology
  • Inclusive Learning Environment
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
30.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+93%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Innovative Teaching Methods research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (1.5k and 1.2k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 1.2k works
  3. 3 China 609 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 351 works
  5. 5 India 317 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 260 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 181 works
  8. 8 Spain 147 works
  9. 9 Philippines 146 works
  10. 10 Germany 130 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 States: 31.9%Indonesia: 23.8%China: 12.6%Türkiye: 7.3%6 others listed: 24.4%32%largest
United States1,541 · 31.9%Indonesia1,152 · 23.8%China609 · 12.6%Türkiye351 · 7.3%6 others listed1,181 · 24.4%

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

Which institutions lead Innovative Teaching Methods research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Yogyakarta State University publishes the most Innovative Teaching Methods research, followed by State University of Padang and State University of Malang.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 71 works
  2. 2 State University of PadangIndonesia 58 works
  3. 3 State University of MalangIndonesia 54 works
  4. 4 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 50 works
  5. 5 State University of MedanIndonesia 43 works
  6. 6 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 43 works
  7. 7 State University of MakassarIndonesia 36 works
  8. 8 State University of JakartaIndonesia 33 works
  9. 9 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 31 works
  10. 10 State University of SemarangIndonesia 31 works

Where is Innovative Teaching Methods research done?

The largest centres of Innovative Teaching Methods research in 2022–2025 are Yogyakarta (Indonesia), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Bandung (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Butare.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Yogyakarta Indonesia 115 works
  2. 2 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 82 works
  3. 3 Jakarta Indonesia 76 works
  4. 4 Bandung Indonesia 75 works
  5. 5 Ankara Türkiye 70 works
  6. 6 Padang Indonesia 66 works
  7. 7 Malang Indonesia 64 works
  8. 8 Medan Indonesia 64 works
  9. 9 Surabaya Indonesia 61 works
  10. 10 Semarang Indonesia 55 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ButareRW · 20.3 works38×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Innovative Teaching Methods than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Innovative Teaching Methods?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Rwanda, Education University of Hong Kong and Yogyakarta State University 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%25%50%75%mean 32.94%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Rwanda: 20, 65.2%Education University of Hong Kong: 10, 62.3%Yogyakarta State University: 71, 19.5%State University of Malang: 54, 24.2%Sultan Idris Education University: 26, 20.3%Universitas Negeri Surabaya: 43, 22.2%Indonesia University of Education: 50, 19.4%University of Hong Kong: 10, 60.9%State University of Medan: 43, 13.1%Tecnológico de Monterrey: 15, 22.3%University of RwandaEducation University…State University of …Yogyakarta State Uni…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of RwandaRwanda 73.765.2%39.1×20 -0.0%
2 Education University of Hong KongHong Kong 68.362.3%10.3×10 +60.1%
3 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 68.019.5%17.9×71 +2296.2%
4 State University of MalangIndonesia 62.724.2%8.1×54 +1774.8%
5 Sultan Idris Education UniversityMalaysia 62.120.3%18.2×26 +449.4%
6 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 59.822.2%8.2×43 +2059.3%
7 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 56.919.4%7.2×50 +7754.7%
8 University of Hong KongHong Kong 56.760.9%1.6×10 +283.1%
9 State University of MedanIndonesia 55.513.1%8.5×43 +699.5%
10 Tecnológico de MonterreyMexico 55.122.3%8.3×15 +463.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Innovative Teaching Methods research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 93% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Innovative Teaching Methods.

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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.