The digital dominance in the transformation of modern education creates risks of crowding out the role of direct pedagogical technologies in educational progress. The global scientific landscape, formed on the basis of an analysis of publication activity on the issues of educational technologies in the world's leading scientific journals, demonstrates the current presence of dominant scientific research, and investigative and social interest in the technological equipment of the education sector in the world. By clustering keywords in publications on educational technology issues, the work identifies its meta-subject topics and provides their bibliometric and scientometric assessment. There are eight meta-subject topics in the field of educational technologies: “innovative pedagogical technologies”, “artificial intelligence”, “information and communication educational technologies”, “education effectiveness”, “mobile and media educational technologies”, “educational engineering”, “technologies in medical (nursing) education”, “information educational environments”. Associated with innovations in pedagogical technologies, understood as broadly as possible: from information (mediated) technologies to direct pedagogical ones, the meta-subject thematic area seems to be the most universal for interdisciplinary collaborations and favorable for the emergence of new solutions in the field of educational technologies. In this connection, this direction seems to be a donor for new thematic areas in the area under study.