Hotspots Trends and Spatio-Temporal Distributions for an Investigative in the Field of Chinese Educational Technology

Abstract

In this article we retrieve 11, 653 authoritative journal papers in the field of domestic educational technology from 2008 to 2018, and used Citespace5 to analyze the keywords, authors, and institutions of the sample literatures. Analyzing the hot issues and trends in the research of educational technology by the frequency of keywords, intermediate center and prominence. Analyzing the authors' collaboration knowledge map and the h-index to obtain a high-impact author distribution and cooperation in the field of education technology. Using the author's institutional information to analyze the temporal and spatial distributions of researches in the field of domestic education technology from the regional level. The analysis shows the following six hot issues in the field of education technology in recent years. “MOOC” and “big data analysis” have become the hottest research trends in the field; the scholars in the fields are not closely linked, the authors of high influence are relatively stable, and few core teams form a complete cooperation model; the academic development difference between the domestic regions is relatively large, the national research cooperation network is low in density and geographically concentrated. Based on the above issues, the article gives a corresponding summary and reflections, with a view to providing reference for the development of research in the field of education technology.