OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Distance Education is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond design: The systemic nature of distance delivery mode selection	46
Exploring instructors’ cultural presence in online course design and delivery	33
From open access to open science—Open education in transition	32
Effects of personal and instructor goals on MOOC continuance intention	28
Open educational resources as the panacea for the decolonisation of e-learning content in South Africa	22
Connecting learners to learning at a distance	21
The online PhD dropout: narratives and meanings of withdrawal	21
Deepening the focus on microcredentials—labour market sector relevance, quality and inclusion: a critical commentary	19
Addressing the challenging elements of distance education	17
Toward building a fair peer recommender to support help-seeking in online learning	16
Learning at a distance: recognising remote tutoring as a career	16
“Welcome to my backyard”: an intersectional approach to inclusive teaching in the asynchronous learning environment	15
Online higher education student engagement: finding flow	14
Pre-service teachers’ adaptability to blended teaching and its predictors	14
Does the early bird catch the worm? A large-scale examination of the effects of early participation in online learning	14
A synergistic framework for curricular flexibility in online collaborative learning	14
Photos from home: Integrating lived experience in a remote-learning environment	13
Examining online university classrooms through emotion work and feeling currencies	13
Effectiveness of blended teaching in preservice teacher education: A meta-analysis	13
Mapping racial justice to online teacher education	12
Promoting potential through purposeful inclusive assessment for distance learners	12
Universal design in online education: A systematic review	11
Systemic considerations to support distance education environments	11
Exploring (in)dependent learning in a cross-institutional project about perceptions of learning	11
Teachers’ motivating styles and students’ agentic engagement in online learning	10

Inclusive online and distance education for learners with dis/abilities	10
Explaining technical, social, and discursive participation in online mathematical discussions	10
Developing an agentic engagement scale in a self-paced MOOC	9
Leveraging technology for animal anatomy practicals	9
Characterization of approaches to online teaching in distance education courses	9
Do online teaching and social presences contribute to motivational growth?	8
The open master: A new model of transnational higher education	7
Design principles for holistic student formation in online programs	7
Exploring differences between students’ interactions, online presence, and cognitive presence	7
Virtual internships in open and distance learning contexts: Improving access, participation, and success for underrepresented students	7
Promoting culturally responsive teaching in online learning: experiences and challenges of instructors and students in higher education	7
Investigating working adult learners’ feedback literacy in online project-based learning: a convergent mixed methods study	7
Examining online teaching practices in a K-12 setting	7
Temporal-spatial and pedagogical flexibility in distance education	7
Reimagining and reengineering education systems for the post-COVID-19 era	7
The effects of politeness in shaping discourse in online debates	7
Iterative design of non-disposable assignments for metacognitive development in online-learning	7
Enhancing distance learning with virtual reality: investigating learners’ engagement and outcomes	6
Asynchronous and synchronous remote teaching and academic outcomes during COVID-19	6
A systems perspective on data and analytics for distance education	6
Identifying accessibility factors affecting learner inclusion in online university programs	6
Teachers’ use of mobile devices in suburban under-resourced secondary schools in Nepal	6
Silver linings for learning in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Understanding college students’ cognitive engagement in online collaborative problem-solving: A multimodal data analysis	6
Course interactivity, college generation status, and learning experiences in online asynchronous courses	6
Enhanced learning engagement through teaching presence in online distance education	6
How to define, operationalize, and improve quality of online interpersonal interaction in higher education: a scoping review	6