Let’s Look into the Future! E-Learning Trends and Hypes in Academic Teaching

Abstract

The present paper introduces methodology and findings of a trend study in the field of academic teaching. The overall interest of the study is the analysis of life stages and future potentials of e-learning innovations. A content analysis –based on 427 scientific articles of leading German speaking e-learning conferences – has been conducted. Thus, e learning trends and hypes in academic teaching have been identified and characterised. The following paper focuses two things, on one hand existing academic concepts of trend research in the field of e-learning will be discussed and on the other hand the above-mentioned study will be introduced.