Abstract
Quality assurance (QA) has become an increasingly important research subject due to globalization and the consequent international expansion of higher education institutions. Such expansion entails obstacles and challenges since national frameworks for QA and the recognition of qualifications do not cover transnational higher education (TNHE). With enthusiastic debate amongst all stakeholders and academics, further exploration is needed to produce more theoretical guidance and good practicing of QA in future TNHE. Thus, the current paper investigated, based on a literature review, the research content of QA in TNHE. To explore this mapping, 4,562 academic papers from 570 journals published between 1990 and 2023, and indexed in Scopus and Web of Science, were assembled. Co-citation analysis and cluster analysis using VOS viewer were applied to explore the answers to the following research questions: What are the principal topics that handle the gaps in TNHE and QA, and how do they correlate with each other? The bibliometric method was applied to verify the following main research groups: (a) assessment; (b) quality; (c) management; (d) learning-teaching. The results revealed the rearrangement of knowledge structure, emerging topics, and potential future directions of research concerning QA and TNHE. They also indicated that educational string and knowledge management strings are the main topics in this realm, and QA is a research topic of great importance for knowledge creation in overall quality stimulation in TNHE.
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Wang Jing, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Eunyoung Kim, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
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Conference: PCE2023
Stream: Higher education
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Jing W., & Kim E. (2023) Mapping the Field of Quality Assurance and Transnational Higher Education Through a Bibliometrics Analysis ISSN: 2758-0962 The Paris Conference on Education 2023: Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2758-0962.2023.56
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2758-0962.2023.56
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