Revealing Education’s Digital Frontier of E-learning Among Rural Students

ASM Sc. J., 20(2), 2025

Published on September 18, 2025

https://doi.org/10.32802/asmscj.2025.1671

Author: Khairul Hafezad Abdullah, Davi Sofyan, Amir Karimi, E. Setiawan

Abstract

E-learning has revolutionised education and attracted educators and scholars, particularly those passionate about enhancing e-learning for rural students. This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis to characterise the descriptive parameters of e-learning and rural student publications. The present study employed VOSviewer software and Scopus datasets to identify the most active scientific sources, prominent references, keywords, and trending topics on e-learning and rural students. The results disclosed that an increasing trend began in 2019 with 22 publications, and the highest number of publications was recorded in 2022, with 39 articles. This study has identified a rising tendency in the usage of keywords such as “education”, “ICT”, “rural school”, “rural students”, “online education”, “online learning”, “remote learning”, “pandemic”, “COVID-19”, and “digital divide” since 2018. Therefore, using social intervention strategies to ameliorate e-learning is anticipated to assist educators and education professionals in mitigating educational inequalities among students residing in rural areas.

Keywords: computer instruction, digital divide, digitalisation, e-learning, learning system, rural student