Paradigms of information technology impact on economic education

Economic education is changing under the influence of information technology, but research on this transformation remains thematically heterogeneous. The article aims to identify the main thematic paradigms and research trends in studies on the impact of information technology on economic education. The study is based on articles and conference proceedings indexed in the Web of Science database for 2015–2024. Publications were selected in the Abstract field using the query "information technology AND economic education". The final dataset included 1,749 documents, whose metadata were processed in VOSviewer. The bibliometric mapping revealed six thematic clusters: economic development, education and information technology; the social impact of IT and digital education; digital technologies, the labour market, and economic models; information literacy and the digital divide; policy, sustainable development, and technology strategies; and online learning, teaching, and educational technologies. The novelty of the study lies in structuring a fragmented research field and interpreting the identified clusters as broader paradigms of IT impact on economic education. The results indicate that economic education is increasingly discussed through digital transformation, human capital development, labour-market change, inclusion, and institutional adaptation. The main limitation is the focused search strategy, which did not include broader terms such as "digital education" or "EdTech" and therefore should be interpreted as a focused bibliometric mapping rather than an exhaustive review of the field.