The studies on education in the new media era in China have developed rapidly.This paper tries to sour out the two research stages based on tracking back to the research history of education in the new media era，taking 282 articles in Chinese core journals as samples.The most papers were composed by one author individually；most of the flint authors came from colleges and universities；papers published in journal of information transmission（news）was in the majority；a quarter of the papers were supported by funds.The research issues mainly focus on the following aspects：education technology and teaching methods；ideological and political work and moral education；the education on media literacy；the construction and development on mass media；the social hot spots issues and cultural studies；the foreign experience on education in new media era.