Research Progress and Trend Outlook on College Students' Online Learning Satisfaction

Online learning satisfaction is an important indicator for measuring online learning experience. To understand the latest international research dynamics and grasp the cutting-edge trends, this study systematically combed and conducted a quantitative analysis of 494 literatures included in the core collection of the Web of Science database from 2010 to 2024 using CiteSpace, and drew a knowledge map of research on college students' online learning satisfaction. The research results show that the top three countries in terms of the number of published articles are the United States, China, and Australia. Tight cooperation networks have been formed among high-output institutions, promoting academic exchanges and cooperation. Research hotspots focus on three aspects: influencing factors of online learning satisfaction, strategies to improve online learning satisfaction, and evaluation methods for online learning satisfaction. Future research should focus on constructing transnational and interdisciplinary collaboration networks, deepening the research on the interaction mechanism of multiple factors, and developing dynamic evaluation tools combined with artificial intelligence to promote the sustainable development of the online education ecosystem.