Instructional design vs learning design: Trends and patterns in scholarly landscape

Abstract

The term instructional design has been widely used to depict a discipline concerned with improving the process of instruction, but as different approaches and technologies emerged over time, different terms entered the field under the umbrella term learning design. In order to better understand the evolution of these terms and emerging themes, a triangulated bibliometric study was carried out to analyze 513 publications indexed in Scopus database using descriptive statistic data mining and social network analysis approaches