Comparison of open education research between China and other countries from knowledge graph perspective

Abstract

Based on the Chinese Social Science Citation Index (CSSCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), this paper uses visualization software CiteSpace to draw the knowledge graph, and makes a bibliometric analysis of open education research between China and other countries from 1998 year to 2020 year. Keywords co-occurrence, word frequency distribution and keyword clustering are used to analyze hot topics and research trends. The research finds that research hotspots mainly focus on the current situation, practical achievements, sustainable development of open education resources, the design of open curriculum and analysis of learner characteristics. The paper points out that the current open education research lacks of in-depth research on resource evaluation, and it should be strengthened to sustainable development of open education resources in the future.