Co-word analysis

Albert D. Ritzhaupt the researcher, defines by himself as an educational researcher, software developer and educational technologist. He wrote his perspective of him in a blog, and you can note a great aperture to share his academics resource and teaching materials.

He is a family man and a cientific who enjoys his job and his bunch of hobies.

Is possible to look at his blog for more information or get  access to his work at the personal page: www.aritzhaupt.com 

E-learning is a concept that was generated after the rise and development of the internet as essential tool and platform for the propagation of knowledge through Education.

Since the web is a powerful tool, and it serves as the development platform for the transmission of knowledge, becomes the e-learning courses in a highly powerful teaching and learning; cutting down distance, encouraging collaborative work and facilitating tools for the teaching-learning process.

As a conclusion, co-word analysis methodology is a method who allow research of specific topics on web sites, by using the principles for the programming: lexical analysis and semantic analysis. However, is an imprecise method, not because having faults in himself, but by the existence a lot of regionalisms that don´t  permit establish standards, who could mislead  the search algorithm of the method

         Ritzhaupt, A. D., Stewart, M., Smith, P., & Barron, E. (2010). An investigation of distance education in North American research literature using co-word analysis.   IRRODL International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 11(1).