Thematic analysis of the international journal of educational Technology in Higher Education (ETHE) between 2004 and 2017
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2018
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Marín, Victoria I.
Duart, Josep M.
Galvis, Alvaro H.
Zawacki-Richter, Olaf
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It gives us great pleasure to be able to use this editorial to present a thematic analysis
of the articles published in the International Journal of Educational Technology in
Higher Education (ETHE) since it began back in 2004. The study uses the articles published in the 14 years of the journal’s history (2004-2017) to show what research was
carried out in the field of educational technology in higher education in this period.
This qualitative analysis could be considered to be complementary to the bibliometric
analysis between 2004 and 2013 (Ramiro, Ramiro-Sánchez, & Alba-Ruiz, 2014).
Although we cannot say that the study reflects all the areas of research covered during
this period given that, as with any other journal of its kind, the articles published have
to have passed a peer-review process and fit with the topic of the special issues proposed by the editors, but the results do show that the areas of research and the subjects covered in the articles published correspond to the research carried out in the
field as a whole over the same period (Hsu, Hung, & Ching, 2013).
As in previous studies with other journals in the field - Edutec-e (Marín,
Zawacki-Richter, Pérez Garcias, & Salinas, 2017), IRRODL (Zawacki-Richter,
Alturki, & Aldraiweesh, 2017) or Distance Education (Zawacki-Richter & Naidu,
2016) -, the key themes covered in the publications over this period and the semantic relationships among these themes were explored with the text mining tool Leximancer™.
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International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2018, vol. 15, 8