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Analysis of the scientific literature published on smart learning

Abstract:

During the last decades, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have revolutionized all aspects of society, from production and distribution systems of large companies to interpersonal relationships, a fact to which education is no exception. Developing new technologies allows students to learn more effectively, efficiently, flexibly and comfortably. They use smart devices to access digital resources through the wireless network and immerse themselves in trouble-free personalized learning. In recent years, smart education within the Smart City, as a concept that describes learning in the digital age has gained more attention, allowing for the development of context-sensitive, ubiquitous learning environments (ulearning), capable of implementing adaptations and providing the right support at the right place and at the right time based on the students' individual needs. Thus, the main purpose of our article is to show the current state of scientific production on Smart Learning through a comparative bibliometric study of the indexed documents in WoS and Scopus databases, dealing with aspects such as the correlation between growth, overlap, dispersion and concentration of articles. To do this, and through an advanced search for terms, we selected a representative set of 149 papers in Scopus and 107 in WoS until 2016 that form the ad-hoc base of the analysis. In view of the results, the conclusion is that although WoS and Scopus databases differ in terms of scope, data volume and coverage policies, the documents and the results of their analysis are in many aspects similar, with Scopus having greater coverage in the specific area of Smart Learning by collecting more articles, papers, journals and signatures.