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ReviewBritish journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology2022

Academia's responses to crisis: A bibliometric analysis of literature on online learning in higher education during COVID-19.

Ling Zhang, Richard Allen Carter, Xueqin Qian, Sohyun Yang, James Rujimora, Shuman Wen

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Review in British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Factors shaping faculty online teaching competencies during the Covid-19 pandemic.Educational technology research and development : ETR & D · 2023
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  11. Academia's responses to crisis: A bibliometric analysis of literature on online learning in higher education during COVID-19.British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology · 2022
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  12. Virtually the same?: Online higher education in the post Covid-19 era.British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ling ZhangCenter for Research on Learning Center for Innovation, Design, and Digital Learning University of Kansas Lawrence Kansas USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9449-6283
Richard Allen CarterCollege of Education University of Wyoming Laramie Wyoming USA.
Xueqin QianWoodland Elementary School Olathe Kansas USA.
Sohyun YangDepartment of Advanced Education Programs Fort Hays State University Hays Kansas USA.
James RujimoraCollege of Community Innovation and Education University of Central Florida Orlando Florida USA.
Shuman WenGraduate School of Education Rutgers University New Brunswick New Jersey USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper aimed to provide a holistic view of research that investigated online learning in higher education around the globe during COVID-19 utilizing a bibliometric analysis. The researchers used co-citation analysis and text mining afforded by VOSviewer to document and analyze research patterns and topics reported in peer-reviewed documents published between January 2020 and August 2021. Findings of this study indicated that scholars from 103 countries or regions from the Global North and Global South investigated a wide array of topics, such as use of various technologies and strategies, redesigned curriculum, student perceptions and psychological impacts of the pandemic-imposed online learning. Many researchers applied technology acceptance theories and structural equation modeling to investigate factors associated with adoption and impacts of the pandemic-imposed online learning. Of the large quantity of research, medical education and chemical education were the most investigated disciplines. Inquiry-based learning, discovery learning, hands-on learning and collaborative learning emerged as instructional approaches frequently discussed or utilized across the target studies. This paper discussed (a) ongoing and emerging challenges to online higher education, (b) placing innovative pedagogies at the forefront of online learning, and (c) rapid, but imbalanced distribution of evolving literature based on the findings.

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bibliometric analysisCOVID‐19innovative pedagogical strategiesonline higher educationtechnology

Identifiers

PMID35600420
PMCPMC9111463

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