OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education is 22. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Students’ perceptions on distance education: A multinational study	129
The effects of gender, educational level, and personality on online learning outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic	128
Development of a new model on utilizing online learning platforms to improve students’ academic achievements and satisfaction	111
Emergency remote teaching in higher education: mapping the first global online semester	104
The impact of artificial intelligence on learner–instructor interaction in online learning	102
Examining the key influencing factors on college students’ higher-order thinking skills in the smart classroom environment	101
An examination of teachers’ strategies to foster student engagement in blended learning in higher education	95
Teachers’ digital competencies in higher education: a systematic literature review	86
Transitioning to the “new normal” of learning in unpredictable times: pedagogical practices and learning performance in fully online flipped classrooms	85
Big data in education: a state of the art, limitations, and future research directions	84
Artificial intelligence in higher education: the state of the field	80
Can artificial intelligence transform higher education?	80
A comprehensive AI policy education framework for university teaching and learning	79
Past, present, and future of smart learning: a topic-based bibliometric analysis	72
Flipped classrooms in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings and future research recommendations	71
Adaptive e-learning environment based on learning styles and its impact on development students' engagement	69
Digital higher education: a divider or bridge builder? Leadership perspectives on edtech in a COVID-19 reality	66
Technology acceptance of four digital learning technologies (classroom response system, classroom chat, e-lectures, and mobile virtual reality) after three months’ usage	65
The disconnected: COVID-19 and disparities in access to quality broadband for higher education students	58
Students’ voices on generative AI: perceptions, benefits, and challenges in higher education	57
The impact of a virtual teaching assistant (chatbot) on students' learning in Ghanaian higher education	55
Gamification and active learning in higher education: is it possible to match digital society, academia and students' interests?	51
Chatbot to improve learning punctuation in Spanish and to enhance open and flexible learning environments	50
Integrating students’ perspectives about online learning: a hierarchy of factors	49
Learning analytics dashboard: a tool for providing actionable insights to learners	48

Testing of support tools for plagiarism detection	48
Exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence and robots on higher education through literature-based design fictions	48
Educational chatbots for project-based learning: investigating learning outcomes for a team-based design course	47
Does sociability quality of web-based collaborative learning information system influence students’ satisfaction and system usage?	46
Improving online video lectures: learning challenges created by media	45
Artificial intelligence applications in Latin American higher education: a systematic review	43
Recommender systems to support learners’ Agency in a Learning Context: a systematic review	43
Benefits of immersive collaborative learning in CAVE-based virtual reality	41
Impact of students evaluation of teaching: a text analysis of the teachers qualities by gender	41
Teaching analytics, value and tools for teacher data literacy: a systematic and tripartite approach	40
Shaping the future learning environments with smart elements: challenges and opportunities	40
Exploring the key influencing factors on college students’ computational thinking skills through flipped-classroom instruction	38
Challenges and contexts in establishing adaptive learning in higher education: findings from a Delphi study	36
Multi-level analyses of distance education capacity, faculty members’ adaptation, and indicators of student satisfaction in higher education during COVID-19 pandemic	35
Integration of artificial intelligence performance prediction and learning analytics to improve student learning in online engineering course	32
The university students’ self-regulated effort, flexibility and satisfaction in distance education	32
Learning analytics in higher education: a preponderance of analytics but very little learning?	31
Understanding students’ behavior in online social networks: a systematic literature review	31
Instructional changes instigated by university faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic: the effect of individual, course and institutional factors	30
Virtual experimental platforms in chemistry laboratory education and its impact on experimental self-efficacy	30
What are the key themes associated with the positive learning experience in MOOCs? An empirical investigation of learners’ ratings and reviews	29
Effects of using mobile instant messaging on student behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement: a quasi-experimental study	28
Use of live chat in higher education to support self-regulated help seeking behaviours: a comparison of online and blended learner perspectives	28
Technology-supported management education: a systematic review of antecedents of learning effectiveness	28
Supporting the development of critical data literacies in higher education: building blocks for fair data cultures in society	27
Negotiating growth of online education in higher education	26
An analysis of internal and external feedback in self-regulated learning activities mediated by self-regulated learning tools and open learner models	26
Exploring critical factors of the perceived usefulness of a learning analytics dashboard for distance university students	25
Online engagement and performance on formative assessments mediate the relationship between attendance and course performance	24
The effect of two educational technology tools on student engagement in Chinese EFL courses	24
A qualitative exploration of teachers’ perspective on smartphones usage in higher education in developing countries	24
Explaining persistence in online courses in higher education: a difference-in-differences analysis	24
Teaching undergraduate mathematics fully online: a review from the perspective of communities of practice	23
Gamification suffers from the novelty effect but benefits from the familiarization effect: Findings from a longitudinal study	23
Development and validation of students’ digital competence scale (SDiCoS)	23
Why do open and distance education students drop out? Views from various stakeholders	23
Predicting students at risk of academic failure using ensemble model during pandemic in a distance learning system	22
Evaluating the effectiveness of a preservice teacher technology training module incorporating SQD strategies	22
An associational study: preschool teachers’ acceptance and self-efficacy towards Educational Robotics in a pre-service teacher training program	22
Augmented reality in architecture and construction education: state of the field and opportunities	22
University students experience the COVID-19 induced shift to remote instruction	22
Exploring the effect of three scaffoldings on the collaborative problem-solving processes in China’s higher education	22