MAJOR TRENDS AND CHALLENGES IN ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
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Massive Open and Online Courses (MOOCs) systems are fast emerging mechanisms to offer various academic program rang from certificate level to highest degree such as Doctor of Philosophy. These systems gain considerable popularity after the COVID-19 Pandemic. The vendors of these systems converted it highly valuable business using different market strategies. However, developing countries are facing several challenges to effectively utilize these systems for their educational system. Therefore, this explore the challenges and barriers which are the main hurdles that these systems are not effective. The main focus of the paper is on the research of the challenges and barriers in field of online distance learning (ODL) research among developing countries catalogued in Web Sciences, Scopus databases during 2017-2022. Mainly bibliographic description and social network analysis was employed to investigate the structure and pattern of information exchanged with the field of ODL research in developing countries and also to interpret the interrelationship between the keywords indicated in these articles. A total of 100 most cited articles were reviewed to examine the impact of factors such as journal DOI and keywords on the number of citations that they received. About 4 research articles were not retrieved from the course destination. We also identified major trends in online distance learning towards challenges and barriers education literature variation across publication and citation year, top ranking of institutions and top ranking of published papers based on authors, subject area and co-authorship collaboration between the developing countries. Our results show that the most cited articles are from countries of India, Pakistan, and South Africa and the most prolific years in terms of number of published articles and citations are 2021. We also found non-significant and very small correlation between the number if citation and DOI number of journals. This study would advantage to reader as resource for future studies by indicating how trends and challenges in online distance learning in developing countries research have a great significance.
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