B-LEARNING AND MOODLE AS A STRATEGY IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: LATIN AMERICA CASE BY 2017-2022

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers concerning studying B-learning, Higher Education, and Moodle as a strategy in university education. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this paper was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2017-2022 and to identify the current situation in Ecuadorian institutions regarding the study of the variables mentioned above, achieving the identification of 78 publications in total. The information provided by the said platform was organized employing graphs 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 Spain, with 28 publications, was the country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that nation. The area of knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of B-learning, Higher Education, Moodle as a strategy in university education was Social Sciences with 41 published documents, and the type of publication that was most used during the period mentioned above was the journal article, representing 56% of the total scientific production.