The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Distance Education in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Analysis Study. (English)

Učinci COVID-19 pandemije na obrazovanje na daljinu u visokom obrazovanju: bibliometrijsko istraživanje. (Croatian)

This study aimed to examine the COVID-19 effect on distance education in higher education in the pre-COVID-19 pandemic (January to November 2019) and post-COVID-19 pandemic periods (December 2019 and January to December 2020). Two different meta-data sets, consisting of 580 articles for the pre-COVID-19 period and 746 for the post-COVID-19 period, obtained by querying the Web of Science database, were used for analysis. SciMAT and Vosviewer software were used for bibliometric analysis. Publications from the two different periods were compared according to keywords, words from abstracts, based on the criteria using co-occurrence and co-word analysis. The results of the keyword co-occurrence analysis show that the keywords "e-learning" and "online learning" were used more in the post-COVID-19 period compared to the pre-pandemic period. In the pre-pandemic period, the thematic trend of academic studies largely aligned with students and satisfaction. However, in the post-pandemic period, the research trend was mostly toward such themes as video lectures and web 2.0 technologies. The research results show that the impact of COVID-19 was reflected in the research published in the post-pandemic period, with the interest in e-learning and online learning increasing in higher education, alongside a trend towards investigating the delivery of instruction rather than conducting student-centered studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ovo istraživanje imalo je za cilj ispitati učinke COVID-19 pandemije na obrazovanje na daljinu u području visokoga obrazovanja u periodu prije COVID-19 pandemije (od siječnja do studenoga 2019.) i poslijepandemijskom razdoblju (prosinac 2019. i od siječnaj do prosinca 2020.). Za analizu korištena su dva niza metapodataka koji su obuhvatili 580 radova iz predpandemijskoga perioda i 746 radova iz razdoblja nakon pandemije izazvane Covid-19 virusom, a dobiveni su pretraživanjem Web of Science baze podataka. SciMAT i Vosviewer programi korišteni su za provođenje bibliometrijske analize. Uspoređene su publikacije iz dva spomenuta razdoblja u odnosu na ključne riječi i riječi iz sažetaka, prema kriterijima zasnovanim na analizi zajedničkih riječi i njihova istodobnoga pojavljivanja. Rezultati istovremenoga pojavljivanja ključnih riječi pokazuju da su riječi „e-učenje" i „online učenje" više korištene u poslijepandemijskom nego u predpandemijskom razdoblju, u kojemu su se teme istraživanja u velikoj mjeri odnosile na studente i zadovoljstvo. Ipak, u postpandemijskom razdoblju sklonost istraživača većinom se odnosila na teme poput videopredavanja i mrežne 2.0 tehnologije. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da je učinak pandemije COVID-19 vidljiv u istraživanjima objavljenima u poslijepandemijskom razdoblju, s porastom interesa za e-učenje i online učenje u visokom obrazovanju te većom sklonosti istraživanju osiguravanja poučavanja nego tema vezanih za studente. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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