Bibliometric study of scientific production in the Web of Science: Vocational Training and blended learning

Abstract

Vocational training, like active teaching methods, is booming in recent years, is gaining more interest among the population, given its power to offer other formative and professional outings to students. The objective of this research is to identify the scientific production at all times about the Professional Formation and the b-learning method in the Web of Science database. At the methodological level, a bibliometric study has been developed by combining the markers “Blended learning”, “Hybrid Learning”, “Vocational training” and “Vocational Education”, finding a total of 63 scientific texts. For the analysis of the results, a series of variables such as authors, evolution in recent years, gender of the author of reference, usual language, countries, content, keywords, types of documents, methodology, area research, database, references and citations. The results show that English is the main language of scientific texts, with a greater production of them from 2016 onwards. It is concluded that the subject of research is booming and increasing, having a greater incidence in the scientific community.