Survey - Conclusions and Future Work

From Stellar Deliverable 1.2

In this paper, we used author co-citation analysis to analyze and visualize research communities in the area of technology-enhanced learning, focusing on publicly available citation information provided through CiteseerX and conference information available through DBLP. The results are visualized based on relevant conferences and themes for each cluster, providing a first important step to provide a structured overview over research in technology enhanced learning and make TEL researchers aware of the different research communities relevant for their work. As an important next step, we will extend our dataset with additional publication and citation data relevant for TEL, most importantly education and psychology, as relevant for example for computer supported collaborative learning. These steps are currently performed, together with other project partners, in the context of the STELLAR Network of Excellence.

We hope, that this work as well as future work building on it, will help overcome TEL research fragmentation, by making TEL researchers aware of the different research communities relevant for technology enhanced learning, and thus more able to bridge communities wherever needed.

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