Innovation and Technology in Online Education: A Bibliometric Analysis

Online education is a teaching and learning environment over the internet. Hence, many educators and learners demonstrated using various innovations and technologies in delivering online education effectively during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to analyse the status quo and the recent advancement of technology utilization in online education system either by e-learning, also known as, online learning since the introduction of internet in mid 1970s. A bibliometric analysis research approach was carried out using the Elsevier-Scopus database, analyzing a wide range of bibliometrics’ key indicators such as total number of publications and citation analysis coupled with bibliometric networking analysis using visualization of similarities software, VOSViewer available in the public domain. It was an interesting find as the number of publications had increased significantly plus online education is a developing subject area among academic researchers utilizing innovation and technology in their teaching and learning pedagogy.