Trend of Distance Education in the last three Decades

dc.creator	Nazime Tuncay, Huseyin Uzunboylu
dc.date	2010-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:21:17Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:21:17Z
dc.identifier	1309-1506
dc.identifier	1309-0348
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/900f76357a8b4d509bf75fdc291a4de4
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/28845
dc.description	In the literature, there weren’t any up-to-date reviews of Distance Education (DE) documents. This reveals that there was a research gap for a detailed review of distance education articles to find an up-to-date trend of distance education. The purpose of this study is to examine research and trends in DE, from the 160 selected documents, during 1972 and 2008 June. A Review of 160 distance education documents is done to investigate documents related to DE that are indexed by the Web of Science, Scopus, EBSCO host and Science Direct. “Distance Learning”, “Online Learning”, “Online Education”, “Distance Education”, “DE” were the keyword used for searching documents, and total 9866 documents analyzed that were judged to be relevant to the field of DE. The principal documents related to DE published in the publications during 1972–2008 June; were article. “English” was the most frequently used language. The most frequent publishers of documents related to DE were ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Turkish Online Journal of DE, and Proceedings Frontiers in Education Conference. The majority of the publications were in the subject area Social Sciences. Distance Education, Students and Humans were the keywords in the first three ranks. The trend line is an increasing DE trend in the number starting from the year 1972. It was recommended that, a combination of content analysis and citation analysis should be used in future research studies.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Academic World Education and Reseach Center
dc.relation	http://www.world-education-center.org/index.php/wjet/article/view/183/pdf_10
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1309-1506
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1309-0348
dc.source	World Journal on Educational Technology , Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 55-67 (2010)
dc.subject	Distance Education
dc.subject	Content analysis
dc.subject	Research
dc.subject	Trends
dc.subject	H-inde
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Trend of Distance Education in the last three Decades
dc.type	article