OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Educational Technology is 18. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Upgrading financial education by adding Python‐based personalized financial projection: A randomized control trial	425
Aligning human values and educational technologies with value‐sensitive design	319
Development and validation of an instrument to measure online assessment acceptance in higher education	293
The changing ecologies of international students: Comparing internationalisation at a distance and internationalisation abroad	262
Viewing tailored nudges is correlated with improved mastery‐based assessment scores	156
The impact of GenAI ‐enabled coding hints on students' programming performance and cognitive load in an SRL	149
The impact of an academic counselling learning analytics tool: Evidence from 3 years of use	148
Chatbots in tertiary education: Exploring the impact of warm and competent avatars on self‐directed learning	142
Multimodal learning analytics—In‐between student privacy and encroachment: A systematic review	136
A learning analytics approach towards understanding collaborative inquiry in a problem‐based learning environment	136
Investigating pedagogical agents' scaffolding of self‐regulated learning in relation to learners' subgoals	131
Identifying factors influencing study skills engagement and participation for online learners in higher education during COVID‐19	120
Empowering active learning: A social annotation tool for improving student engagement	115
For to all those who have, will more be given? Evidence from the adoption of the SELFIE tool for the digital capacity of schools in Spain	111
Untangling complexity of competency evolution: Multi‐channel learning trajectories of score, engagement and problem‐solving efficiency	100
A topological exploration of convergence/divergence of human‐mediated and algorithmically mediated pedagogy	84
Issue Information	84
BJET Editorial Spring 2025: Reporting on AIED research and ethical considerations	83
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BJET Editorial 2024: A call for research rigour	75
Podcasts as pedagogy in higher education: A scoping review to map and advance the field	74
Fostering low‐achieving students' productive disciplinary engagement through knowledge‐building inquiry and reflective assessment	73
Interactivity and identity impact learners' sense of agency in virtual reality field trips	71
Metacognition meets AI : Empowering reflective writing with large language models	58
The role of generative AI in collaborative problem‐solving of authentic challenges	58

How do students' self‐regulation skills affect learning satisfaction and continuous intention within desktop‐based virtual reality? A structural equation modelling approach	57
Comparing video and virtual reality as tools for fostering interest and self‐efficacy in classroom management: Results of a pre‐registered experiment	55
Lessons learned from the student dropout patterns on COVID ‐19 pandemic: An analysis supported by machine learning	55
Beyond hard workout: A multimodal framework for personalised running training with immersive technologies	54
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Meeting the challenges of continuing education online courses: Can we promote self‐regulated learning strategies with adaptive support?	51
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Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling	48
Applying social cognition to feedback chatbots: Enhancing trustworthiness through politeness	47
Data privacy on the African continent: Opportunities, challenges and implications for learning analytics	47
The effectiveness of Tier 1 digital interventions for early reading: A meta‐analysis	46
Using virtual classroom simulations in a mathematics methods course to develop pre‐service primary mathematics teachers' noticing skills	46
What is the impact of a multi‐modal pedagogical conversational AI system on parents' concerns about technology use by young children?	44
Infusing educational technologies in the heart of the university—A systematic literature review from an organisational perspective	44
Testing a novel extended educational technology acceptance model using student attitudes towards virtual classrooms	42
Capturing self‐regulated learning processes in virtual reality: Causal sequencing of multimodal data	42
Teacher support, academic engagement and learning anxiety in online foreign language learning	42
Using causal models to bridge the divide between big data and educational theory	40
Evaluating the use of BERT and Llama to analyse classroom dialogue for teachers' learning of dialogic pedagogy	40
Human– AI collaborative learning in mixed reality: Examining the cognitive and socio‐emotional interactions	38
Examining students' attitudes and intentions towards using ChatGPT in higher education	37
Promoting students' artwork appreciation: An experiential learning‐based virtual reality approach	37
Primary school teachers' classroom‐based e‐assessment practices: Insights from the theory of planned behaviour	37
Assessing implicit computational thinking in game‐based learning: A logical puzzle game study	37
Exploring the impact of VoiceBots on multimedia programming education among Ghanaian university students	37
Effect of an AI‐based chatbot on students' learning performance in alternate reality game‐based museum learning	37
Student profiles based on in‐game performance and help‐seeking behaviours in an online mathematics game	36
‘It's extremely weird to understand UK culture when you don't live there and just study from abroad’: An empirical investigation of internationalisat	36
Evidence‐based multimodal learning analytics for feedback and reflection in collaborative learning	35
Requesting a commitment in school teachers to teach in unprecedented ways: The mediating role of teacher agency	35
Towards automated transcribing and coding of embodied teamwork communication through multimodal learning analytics	34
Exploring Twitter as a social learning space for education scholars: An analysis of value‐added contributions to the # TPACK network	34
Evidence‐based learning analytics: Reusing and reapplying successful methods and techniques in real learning settings	34
How does drawing influence the effectiveness of oral self‐explanation versus instructional explanation in video learning?	34
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Design and evaluation of a social and embodied multiplayer reading game to engage primary school learners in Namibia	34
Unveiling cognitive processes in digital reading through behavioural cues: A hybrid intelligence ( HI ) approach	34
Video demonstrations can predict the intention to use digital learning technologies	34
Fostering complex professional skills with interactive simulation technology: A virtual reality‐based flipped learning approach	33
The impact of the SMART program on cognitive and academic skills: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	33
The effects of physical fidelity and task repetition on perceived task load and performance in the virtual reality‐based training simulation	32
Development of a metacognitive regulation‐based collaborative programming system and its effects on students' learning achievements, computational thinking tendency and group metacognition	32
An experimental study on reading in high‐immersion virtual reality	32
Student engagement in online learning in Latin American higher education during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review	31
Analysing nontraditional students' ChatGPT interaction, engagement, self‐efficacy and performance: A mixed‐methods approach	31
Issue Information	31
Providing tailored reflection instructions in collaborative learning using large language models	30
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Why do college students engage in in‐class media multitasking behaviours? A social learning perspective	29

The more the better? How excessive content and online interaction hinder the learning effectiveness of high‐quality MOOCs	29
Issue Information	29
Privacy risk quantification in education data using Markov model	28
Raising student engagement using digital nudges tailored to students' motivation and perceived ability levels	28
Understanding higher education students' developing perceptions of geocapabilities through the creation of story maps with geographical information systems	28
Hybrid teaching intelligence: Lessons learned from an embodied mathematics learning experience	27
A human‐centred learning analytics approach for developing contextually scalable K‐12 teacher dashboards	27
Still a fallible tool? Revisiting effects of automated writing evaluation from activity theory perspective	27
Beyond item analysis: Connecting student behaviour and performance using e‐assessment logs	26
Meta‐analysis of the effect of 360‐degree videos on students' learning outcomes and non‐cognitive outcomes	26
Collaborative learning with tablets: Analysing students' meaning making of 3D body models in upper secondary education	26
A Competency Framework for AI Literacy: Variations by Different Learner Groups and an Implied Learning Pathway	26
Driving is believing: Using telepresence robots to access makerspace for teachers in rural areas	26
Technology integration in higher education and student privacy beyond learning environments—A comparison of the UK	26
Effects of immersive virtual reality cardiopulmonary resuscitation training on prospective kindergarten teachers' learning achievements, attitudes and self‐efficacy	26
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The impact of social robots' presence and roles on children's performance in musical instrument practice	24
Comparing reusable, atomic feedback with classic feedback on a linear equations task using text mining and qualitative techniques	24
“African magic” or “African science”: Issues of technology in African higher education	24
Contextualizing privacy with wearable data in higher education	24
Educational apps and learning: Current evidence on design and evaluation	23
What influences student situational engagement in smart classrooms: Perception of the learning environment and students' motivation	23
Issue Information	23
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Technology addiction, abduction and adoption in higher education: Bird's eye view of the ICT4AD policy in Ghana 20 years on	23
The pedagogical makerspace: Learning opportunity and challenge for prospective teachers' growth of TPACK	23
Exploring homeplace as a nexus of learning and socially reproductive labour: A feminist perspective on internationalisation at a distance	23
Learning analytics and assessment: Emerging research trends, promises and future opportunities	23
Issue Information	22
Leveraging cultural forms in human‐centred learning analytics design	22
Design and validation of a conceptual model for children's continuance intention to use video apps	22
Long‐term effects of an online math tool on U.S. adolescents' achievement	22
Enhancing self‐directed learning and Python mastery through integration of a large language model and learning analytics dashboard	22
Do help options facilitate computer‐based L2 listening comprehension? Evidence from an activity theory perspective	22
Vulnerable student digital well‐being in AI ‐powered educational decision support systems ( AI ‐	21
Collaborative dialogue patterns of pair programming and their impact on programming self‐efficacy and coding performance	21
Teachers' digital initiatives to bridge students' in‐class and out‐of‐class language learning and the influencing factors	21
AI and English language teaching: Affordances and challenges	21
Improving students' inquiry learning in web‐based environments by providing structure: Does the teacher matter or platform matter?	21
Issue Information	21
Adaptive or adapted to: Sequence and reflexive thematic analysis to understand learners' self‐regulated learning in an adaptive learning analytics dashboard	20
The information won't just sink in: Helping teachers provide technology‐assisted data literacy instruction in social studies	20
Children's Conceptions of AI , Ethics and Intelligence in China: Evidence from Drawing and Ranking Activities	20
Co‐designing enduring learning analytics prediction and support tools in undergraduate biology courses	20
Influential factors on e‐learning adoption of university students with disability: Effects of type of disability	20
The quest to cultivate an ecocritical awareness in educational technology scholarship: A question of disciplinary focus in the age of environmental crisis	20
GeoSolvAR : Scaffolding spatial perspective‐taking ability of middle‐school students using AR ‐enhanced inquiry learni	20
What next for Universal Design for Learning? A systematic literature review of technology in UDL implementations at second level	19
Collaborative Cell Groups: Bridging separation in the Community of Inquiry in a context of Internationalization at a Distance	19
Practical and ethical challenges of large language models in education: A systematic scoping review	19
The life cycle of large language models in education: A framework for understanding sources of bias	18
Diverse students' perspectives on privacy and technology integration in higher education	18
Empowering student self‐regulated learning and science education through ChatGPT : A pioneering pilot study	18
An exploratory study on practising listening comprehension skills in high‐immersion virtual reality	18
ECRIMO , an app to train first graders' spelling: Effectiveness and comparison between different designs	18
Investigating the impact of AR technologies on geometric learning in primary school: A comparison between marker‐based and markerless AR	18
Big data, big changes? The technologies and sources of data used in science classrooms	18
Pedagogical features of interactive apps for effective learning of foundational skills	18