Digitized Higher Education: Digital Transformation in Education from a Bibliometric Perspective

Abstract

Higher education institutions should give high priority to keeping up to date by studying how the business environment reflects the technological and social developments brought about by digitalization. This will enable future generations to take advantage of technological inventions for research and teaching. The implementation of the digital transformation approaches brought by Industry 4.0 in higher education has led to the creation of a technologically-supported education area in higher learning. In the educational dimension of this digital transformation, there is a need to organize complex relationships between existing structures and technologically supported structures. The aim of this article is to examine the literature of digital transformation in education and to identify the current state of affairs. In this context, filtering was carried out using the keywords “digital transformation” and “education” in the Web of Science database. A bibliometric data analysis was carried out through VOSviewer by downloading the data set obtained as a result of the filtering. The analysis found that the pandemic had an impact on the increase in the number of publications in literature, and the most common type of text was the article. In addition, the most broadcasting country is Russia, and the most commonly used keywords in terms of conceptual unity are digital transformation, higher education, education, digitization and COVID-19.