Educational innovation in academic literature published in spanish: systematic literature review

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the research on educational innovation in the academic literature published in Spanish during the years marked by COVID. To achieve this objective, a systematic, exhaustive, and replicable literature review was conducted, with the purpose of consulting all scientific articles that include the sequence of characters "educational innovation" in the title, keywords, or abstract, and that were published in journals indexed in Scopus, WoS, or SciELO between 2019 and the present. It was found that there is a significant asymmetry in the geographical distribution of the research, with Spain and Mexico accounting for more than half of all publications from the Hispanic American region. An increase in the popularity of "educational innovation" as a research topic caused by COVID was noted; however, this popularity is contracting as COVID recedes over time. Additionally, a strong preference for empirical research developed within educational contexts was recorded, which seems to confirm the existing gap between educational researchers and the world outside the classroom.