Research questions and their answers

Abstract

We recognize the need to promote and ensure a continuing conversation in the dynamic and diverse system of scholarly communication for which researchers and scholars provide the focus and the purpose and consider it reasonable to look at persistent trends and technologies that might have a positive impact on learning. The researchers took the approach of examining what educational technology scholars had been publishing by means of analyzing the published research articles in the multidisciplinary domain of educational technology, to better understand where the discipline has been, where it is now, and where it may be headed. This study has analyzed 10 of the top journals in educational technology and will aggregate findings from individual analyses of the journals as well as findings on the field overall: trends in research topics, citations, and authorship. This information offers a way of understanding trends in scholarship over the past twenty years and potential new directions in research and publications.