Learning Beyond the Brick and Mortar: Prospects, Challenges, and Bibliometric Review of E-learning Innovation

Abstract

The increasing proliferation of IT services in all sectors has reinforced the adoption and diffusion across all levels of education and training institutions. However, lack of awareness, knowledge about the key challenges, and opportunities of e-learning seem to allude policymakers, resulting in low adoption or increased failure rate of many e-learning projects. Our study tries to address this problem through a review of relevant literature in e-learning. Our goal was to draw from the existing literature, insights into the opportunities and challenges of e-learning diffusion, and the current state-of-research in the field. To do this, we employed a systematic review of literature on some of the salient opportunities and challenges of e-learning innovation for educational institutions. These results aimed to inform policymakers and suggest some interesting issues to advance the research and adoption and diffusion of e-learning. Moreover, the bibliometric analysis shows that the field is experiencing high research attraction among scholars. However, several research areas in the field witnessed relatively low research paucity. Based on these findings, we discussed topics for possible future research.

An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review of Sustainable E-Learning within Human Resources Higher Education Provision

“…A study examining trends in the affective use of computing in a range of e-learning environments-including education [30] that was based upon a corpus of 27 papers. The study defines e-learning as ".…”

“…The authors in Ref. [30] found these environments were the most popular because they relied upon conversational language where emotion can occur and therefore can be detected with affective computing systems. Though this SLR also found that affective computing was not exploited as much as it could have been within the research that was analysed.…”

“…While the research found some of the published work focused upon psychological emotions, they require specialist equipment. While voice was measured least frequently of all, possibly due to the difficulties encountered with the range of cultural voices of users [30]. The behaviour of users was also found to have been studied across the published works [30], through the users' interaction with log-in files.…”

“…While voice was measured least frequently of all, possibly due to the difficulties encountered with the range of cultural voices of users [30]. The behaviour of users was also found to have been studied across the published works [30], through the users' interaction with log-in files. Interestingly, the SLR Ref.…”

Goal Setting, self-management skills, and evaluating ability of Chinese higher vocational college students

“…al., 2022). Moreover, research has addressed potential barriers to effective self-evaluating ability, such as lack of metacognitive awareness and limited opportunities for reflection (Ceesay, 2021;Yousef, et. al.,2023).…”