Bibliometric Analysis of Published Articles on the Satisfaction Level of Distance Education during the Covid 19 Pandemic

Abstract

During the Covid 19 pandemic, which has a global impact, there has also been a great change in education systems. The level of satisfaction with the distance education applied in this process has had an important effect on the success of the students. The research aims to examine researches that deals with the satisfaction level of distance education applied in the covid 19 process (2019-2021) with bibliometric analysis. In the study, articles (n=107) obtained from the Scopus database were examined. The analysis of the data was carried out with the Vosviewer social network analysis program. At the end of the research, it was found that the articles which examined the level of satisfaction with distance education were generally carried out in the fields of medicine, computer sciences, and social sciences. It was determined that researches are mostly carried out in countries such as the USA, China, Saudi Arabia, England, and Canada. When the data were also analyzed by bibliometric analysis, it was found that the keywords are networked with words such as a pandemic, online learning, distance education, satisfaction, e-learning, higher education, online education concerning the word Covid 19. Also, it was determined that the abstracts of the articles were grouped in four clusters and the collaboration between the authors in three clusters. Since the Covid 19 pandemic continues to show its effect worldwide, it was thought that the number of researches on distance education applied during the pandemic process will increase in the coming years. In this context, it would be appropriate to focus on meta-analysis studies and literature reviews that holistically examine researches. In addition, bibliometric studies examining the quality of distance education in different disciplines, expectations, attitudes, satisfaction and successes of students, faculty members and other stakeholders in the process can also be brought into literature.