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Open Education and E-Learning

Open Education and E-Learning is a research topic within Computer Science Applications. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1951. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the exploration, development, and impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Learning Object Repositories. It delves into topics such as instructional design, metadata standards, online learning, educational practices, reuse of educational resources, quality assurance, and the global access to education through OER. The papers discuss the challenges, opportunities, and implications of OER adoption in various educational settings.

  • Open Educational Resources
  • Learning Object Repositories
  • Instructional Design
  • Metadata Standards
  • Online Learning
  • Educational Practices
  • Reuse of Educational Resources
  • Quality Assurance
  • Global Access to Education
  • OER Adoption
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Open Education and E-Learning

Which countries lead Open Education and E-Learning research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (495 and 167 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 495 works
  2. 2 India 167 works
  3. 3 Germany 125 works
  4. 4 China 95 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 93 works
  6. 6 Brazil 88 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 74 works
  8. 8 Canada 72 works
  9. 9 France 62 works
  10. 10 Spain 58 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: 37.3%India: 12.6%Germany: 9.4%China: 7.1%6 others listed: 33.6%37%largest
United States495 · 37.3%India167 · 12.6%Germany125 · 9.4%China95 · 7.1%6 others listed447 · 33.6%

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

Which institutions lead Open Education and E-Learning research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of South Africa publishes the most Open Education and E-Learning research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Leibniz Association.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 21 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  3. 3 Leibniz AssociationGermany 12 works
  4. 4 City University of New YorkUnited States 12 works
  5. 5 Graz University of TechnologyAustria 10 works
  6. 6 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 8 works
  7. 7 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 8 works
  8. 8 Brigham Young UniversityUnited States 7 works
  9. 9 The Open UniversityUnited Kingdom 7 works
  10. 10 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 6 works

What are the most cited papers in Open Education and E-Learning?

The most cited paper in Open Education and E-Learning is "Blended learning: the new normal and emerging technologies" (Charles D. Dziuban, Charles R. Graham, Patsy D. Moskal et al., 2018), with 1,253 citations. Next come "Web Based Knowledge Infrastructures for the Sciences: An Adaptive Document" (1,140) and "The functions of multiple representations" (1,118).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Blended learning: the new normal and emerging technologies Charles D. Dziuban, Charles R. Graham, Patsy D. Moskal et al. · International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education Open access 9 Jan 2018 1,253
2 Web Based Knowledge Infrastructures for the Sciences: An Adaptive Document Alexander Hars · Communications of the Association for Information Systems Open access 2000 1,140
3 The functions of multiple representations Shaaron Elizabeth Ainsworth · Computers & Education Sep 1999 1,118
4 E-learning 2.0 Stephen Downes · eLearn Oct 2005 955
5 Initial trends in enrolment and completion of massive open online courses Katy Jordan · The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Open access 15 Jan 2014 873
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Open Education and E-Learning research done?

The largest centres of Open Education and E-Learning research in 2022-now are Pretoria (South Africa), New York (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pretoria.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 PretoriaSouth Africa 24 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 19 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 15 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 15 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 15 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 13 works
  7. 7 BandungIndonesia 13 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 12 works
  9. 9 GrazAustria 11 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PretoriaZA · 24.1 works9.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Open Education and E-Learning than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Open Education and E-Learning?

Among universities, judged by research, University of South Africa, City University of New York and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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%10%20%mean 11.975%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Illino…City University of N…University of South …Graz University of T…
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1University of South AfricaSouth Africa 67.211.8%25.9×21 +147.2%
2City University of New YorkUnited States 55.314.1%11.5×12 -6.4%
3University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 51.118.3%5.0×8 +191.5%
4Graz University of TechnologyAustria 26.93.7%27.2×10 -19.0%

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 Open Education and E-Learning, country by country

Is Open Education and E-Learning research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Open Education and E-Learning as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Open Education and E-Learning0.0097% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Open Education and E-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%Open Education and E-Learning10.5% 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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