INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICT) IN EDUCATION: INDICATORS OF IMPROVEMENT IN ECUADOR

Abstract

A documentary review of the elaboration and production of studies related to Information and Communication Technologies and their Impact on Ecuadorian Education was carried out through a bibliometric study of the main characteristics of 1,576 publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2018-2022. The results obtained from this database were organized in graphs and figures, categorizing the information by variables such as Year of Publication, Country of Origin and Area of Knowledge, which allowed to identify, through qualitative analysis, the position of different authors regarding the proposed topic. The main findings of this research were that Ecuador stood out for having the highest scientific production, leading the list with 1,576 publications. Likewise, the area of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material related to the study of variables was computer science, with 989 published documents.