OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Distance Education is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of personal and instructor goals on MOOC continuance intention	38
Exploring instructors’ cultural presence in online course design and delivery	33
From open access to open science—Open education in transition	31
The online PhD dropout: narratives and meanings of withdrawal	30
Connecting learners to learning at a distance	26
Learning at a distance: recognising remote tutoring as a career	25
Addressing the challenging elements of distance education	25
Open educational resources as the panacea for the decolonisation of e-learning content in South Africa	23
Deepening the focus on microcredentials—labour market sector relevance, quality and inclusion: a critical commentary	22
Effectiveness of blended teaching in preservice teacher education: A meta-analysis	18
Universal design in online education: A systematic review	18
Photos from home: Integrating lived experience in a remote-learning environment	18
Examining online university classrooms through emotion work and feeling currencies	16
Mapping racial justice to online teacher education	16
Pre-service teachers’ adaptability to blended teaching and its predictors	14
Online higher education student engagement: finding flow	14
“Welcome to my backyard”: an intersectional approach to inclusive teaching in the asynchronous learning environment	14
Promoting potential through purposeful inclusive assessment for distance learners	11
Leveraging technology for animal anatomy practicals	11
Beyond access alone: distance education in an AI and open knowledge era	11
Characterization of approaches to online teaching in distance education courses	10
Inclusive online and distance education for learners with dis/abilities	10
Exploring (in)dependent learning in a cross-institutional project about perceptions of learning	10
Explaining technical, social, and discursive participation in online mathematical discussions	9
Developing an agentic engagement scale in a self-paced MOOC	9

The effects of politeness in shaping discourse in online debates	8
Unveiling the configurational paths to rural teachers’ online learning engagement: a study based on the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	8
The open master: A new model of transnational higher education	8
Examining online teaching practices in a K-12 setting	8
The danger of building walls around scientific knowledge: implications for higher education teaching and learning in the era of open science	8
Teachers’ motivating styles and students’ agentic engagement in online learning	8
Temporal-spatial and pedagogical flexibility in distance education	8
Design principles for holistic student formation in online programs	8
Investigating working adult learners’ feedback literacy in online project-based learning: a convergent mixed methods study	8
Understanding college students’ cognitive engagement in online collaborative problem-solving: A multimodal data analysis	7
Promoting culturally responsive teaching in online learning: experiences and challenges of instructors and students in higher education	7
Teachers’ use of mobile devices in suburban under-resourced secondary schools in Nepal	7
Course interactivity, college generation status, and learning experiences in online asynchronous courses	7
Exploring differences between students’ interactions, online presence, and cognitive presence	7
Enhancing distance learning with virtual reality: investigating learners’ engagement and outcomes	7
Virtual internships in open and distance learning contexts: Improving access, participation, and success for underrepresented students	7
Iterative design of non-disposable assignments for metacognitive development in online-learning	7
Examining the relationships among community of inquiry, academic procrastination, and achievement for nontraditional online students	7