Research Hotspots and Trends in the Digital Transformation of Global Vocational Education

Lei Xie; Huayang Zhang

doi:10.62177/jetp.v2i4.754

Authors

Lei Xie The open university of China
Huayang Zhang Shenzhen Polytechnic University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62177/jetp.v2i4.754

Keywords:

Educational Digitalization, Vocational Education, Global Trend, Bibliometrics

Abstract

The digital transformation has provided an era of opportunity for the high-quality development of China's vocational education. How to seize the opportunities of the times and further promote the innovative development of vocational education digitalization on the basis of existing research has become an urgent problem to be solved. In order to systematically and objectively analyze the global characteristics of vocational education digital transformation research, this study uses CiteSpace software to visualize and analyze 604 relevant papers worldwide. The results show that the number of Chinese articles is generally higher than the international ones, the transformation of higher vocational colleges and digital teaching are the common focus of the world, and China is in a leading position in the research of industry-education integration. In the future, we should promote the sustainable development of digital transformation with resource supply-side reform.

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