Learning Styles in Higher Education: The use of Moodle platform

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers concerning the study of the variables Learning Styles in Higher Education in the use of Moodle platform. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2016-2021, achieving the identification of a total of 123 publications. The information provided by the said platform was organized through tables and figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, a qualitative analysis was used to refer to the position of different authors on the proposed topic. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Indonesia, with 12 publications, was the country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that country. The Knowledge Area that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of Learning Styles in Higher Education in the use of the Moodle platform was Computer Science with 77 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the aforementioned period was the conference proceedings, representing 49% of the total scientific production.