E-Learning Pedagogical Strategy: Present and Trends in Scientific Research

E-learning is the use of Internet technologies to enhance knowledge and performance, which is a hot topic that comes along with the fast development of information technology. Pedagogical strategy is one of the key elements for e-learning products or services. This paper aims to explore the research of e-learning pedagogical strategy with the visualization software named CiteSpace and Excel for enriching related theoretical research and optimizing practices. By mining a database, a network of co-words of e-learning strategies by bibliometric search from 1986 to 2018 is drawn. The study identifies the current status, and discusses how to organize and assess e-learning. Tutoring system, ubiquitous learning, web 2.0 and social networking are the emerging research fronts. The hotspots detected are interactive learning tool and collaborative approach. The study concludes that two features of e-learning pedagogical strategy are as following: People-oriented learning promotes the customized and diverse e-learning products; How to evaluate e-learning should consider context, input, process and product under the cross discipline background.