OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of British Journal of Educational Technology is 40. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Effectiveness of immersive virtual reality using head‐mounted displays on learning performance: A meta‐analysis	191
An exploratory study on the emergency remote education experience of higher education students and teachers during the COVID‐19 pandemic	162
Immersive virtual reality in K‐12 and higher education: A 10‐year systematic review of empirical research	158
Student engagement in online learning in Latin American higher education during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review	125
Students’ experience of online learning during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A province‐wide survey study	104
HoloLens and mobile augmented reality in medical and health science education: A randomised controlled trial	95
The virtual field trip: Investigating how to optimize immersive virtual learning in climate change education	88
Academia's responses to crisis: A bibliometric analysis of literature on online learning in higher education during COVID‐19	87
Effects of an immersive virtual reality‐based classroom on students’ learning performance in science lessons	87
Multimodal data capabilities for learning: What can multimodal data tell us about learning?	79
Can an immersive virtual reality simulation increase students’ interest and career aspirations in science?	73
Gamification of in‐class activities in flipped classroom lectures	71
Multimodal learning analytics for game‐based learning	70
Emergency education effects on teacher abilities and motivation to use digital technologies	67
Promoting students' learning achievement and self‐efficacy: A mobile chatbot approach for nursing training	65
Reasons associated with preservice teachers’ intention to use immersive virtual reality in education	63
Effects of learning physics using Augmented Reality on students’ self‐efficacy and conceptions of learning	62
Investigating the effect of teaching as a generative learning strategy when learning through desktop and immersive VR: A media and methods experiment	60
How student perceptions about online learning difficulty influenced their satisfaction during Canada's Covid‐19 response	57
Integrating interactive learner‐immersed video‐based virtual reality into learning and teaching of physical geography	57
The promise and challenges of multimodal learning analytics	57
Technology integration for young children during COVID‐19: Towards future online teaching	56
Learning with technology during emergencies: A systematic review of K‐12 education	54
Multimodal Learning Analytics research with young children: A systematic review	53
Teachers' trust in AI‐powered educational technology and a professional development program to improve it	52

Peer feedback or peer feedforward? Enhancing students’ argumentative peer learning processes and outcomes	51
From experiencing to expressing: A virtual reality approach to facilitating pupils’ descriptive paper writing performance and learning behavior engagement	50
Do cultural differences affect users’ e‐learning adoption? A meta‐analysis	49
The role of informal digital learning of English and L2 motivational self system in foreign language enjoyment	48
Extending the technology acceptance model of college learners' mobile‐assisted language learning by incorporating psychological constructs	46
Online exam proctoring technologies: Educational innovation or deterioration?	46
Students’ motivational beliefs and strategies, perceived immersion and attitudes towards science learning with immersive virtual reality: A partial least squares analysis	45
Humanoid robots in higher education: Evaluating the acceptance of Pepper in the context of an academic writing course using the UTAUT	44
Escape boxes: Bringing escape room experience into the classroom	44
Exploring the effects of gamification pedagogy on children’s reading: A mixed‐method study on academic performance, reading‐related mentality and behaviors, and sustainability	44
The post‐COVID‐19 future of digital learning in higher education: Views from educators, students, and other professionals in six countries	43
Theorising hybrid lifelong learning	42
Understanding university students’ behavioral intention to use Edmodo through the lens of an extended technology acceptance model	42
Using learning analytics in the Amazonas: understanding students’ behaviour in introductory programming	42
Multimodal learning analytics to investigate cognitive load during online problem solving	40
COVID‐19 as the tipping point for integrating e‐assessment in higher education practices	40
Developing capabilities: Lifelong learning in the age of AI	40