Two Decades of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Contributors, Collaborations, Research Topics, Challenges, and Future Directions

• Published in: Educational Technology ＆ Society Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 28 - 47
• Main Authors: Chen, Xieling, Zou, Di, Xie, Haoran, Cheng, Gary, Liu, Caixia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Palmerston North International Forum of Educational Technology ＆ Society 01.01.2022; International Forum of Educational Technology & Society
• Subjects: Affective computing; Algorithms; Artificial Intelligence; artificial intelligence in education; At Risk Students; bibliometric analysis; Bibliometrics; CAI; Collaboration; Collaborative virtual environments; College Science; Computer aided testing; Computer assisted instruction; Computer Uses in Education; Conference Papers; Cooperative Learning; Customization; Data collection; Data mining; Discourse Analysis; Distance Education; Education; Educational aspects; Educational Methods; Educational Objectives; Educational Research; Educational Strategies; Educational Technology; Educational Trends; Elementary Education; Elementary Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; Emotion recognition; Forecasts and trends; Full Length Articles; In Person Learning; Individualized Instruction; Industrial Training; Influence of Technology; Information Retrieval; Instructional Innovation; Instructional Materials; Intelligent Tutoring Systems; Machine learning; Natural Language Processing; Neural networks; Pedagogy; Performance prediction; Personalized learning; Prediction; Recommender systems; research evolution; research topics; Robotics; Special Education; structural topic modeling; Teaching; Training; Trends; Tutoring; Hong Kong; Hong Kong, China; Research topics; Bibliometric analysis; Research evolution; Artificial intelligence in education; Structural topic modeling

With the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in education, the number of published studies in the field has increased. However, no large-scale reviews have been conducted to comprehensively investigate the various aspects of this field. Based on 4,519 publications from 2000 t...