Quantitative structured literature review of research on e-Learning

In this study is explored the changing path of e-Learning discipline since its appearance to nowadays. E-Learning has evolved in different ways in different sectors therefore it might have different implications in certain periods of time in certain sector. A small number of things have changed in the last half century as much as the way we learn. Consequently, a significant research is going on throughout these periods in identifying cases of success in the application of e-learning. In this context, the study presented in this paper is about the analysis of the evolution on research papers related to e-learning and any form of computer assisted education published in the last five decades. We show the methodology for gathering these papers from the DBLP database, including their authors and conferences where they are published. We present the results from this study showing how published work regarding e-Learning is distributed through years, which are the conferences where these papers show up mostly and what is the collaboration community in this framework.