POLICY AND DISTANCE HIGHER EDUCATION: RESEARCH TRENDS FROM 1977 TO 2022

Abstract

Distance higher education has proven to be a solution during a pandemic and has become an educational trend at all
levels of education and has become an opportunity as an educational strategy in the future so that policies that regulate
the implementation of distance higher education are needed. However, from the many publications, there are still few
researchers who discuss research trends that raise policy research trends and distance higher education. This study
uses data from the Scopus indexed journal with a total of 339 articles in English which are processed in excel and the
VOSViewer 1.6.18 application.
The research results show that publications in the Scopus journal on policy and distance higher education are still few
from 1977 to its peak in 2021 as many as 49 publications, then the policy keyword only appears 9 times compared to
the keywords higher education and distance or e learning so that this becomes a good opportunity for researchers to
examine more deeply about policies around higher and distance education.