Bibliometric Analysis of Instructional Design in Online Education Based on Citespace

With the advancement of education informatization in China, online education has begun to take shape, and the research on online education is increasing year by year. Instructional design is an important part of teaching in online education. In order to adapt to the new form of online education, researchers began to study instructional design of online education. Therefore, Citespace software is used to review the literature related to online education teaching design in WoS database and CNKI. The research popularity in this field can be shown through the publication time distribution of literature, and the domestic research situation and the influence of various countries can be shown through the country and institution distribution of literature. Keywords co-occurrence analysis can show the hot research content in this field. After comparing the analysis of Chinese and foreign literature, this paper discusses the development of online education instructional design, and discusses the hot spots and frontiers in this field in the future.