OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Geography in Higher Education is 2. 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
Covid-19 and rapid adoption and improvisation of online teaching: curating resources for extensive versus intensive online learning experiences	132
Using virtual reality (VR) for teaching and learning in geography: fieldwork, analytical skills, and employability	28
Student Perceptions of Semester-Long In-Class Virtual Reality: Effectively Using “Google Earth VR” in a Higher Education Classroom	24
A futuring approach to teaching wicked problems	17
A novel approach to measuring student engagement while using an augmented reality sandbox	17
Digital storytelling, student engagement and deep learning in Geography	15
Teaching (super) wicked problems: authentic learning about climate change	15
Should you be using mobile technologies in teaching? Applying a pedagogical framework	15
Integrating contemplative pedagogy and anti-oppressive pedagogy in geography higher education classrooms	14
Learning to teach climate change: students in teacher training and their progression in pedagogical content knowledge	14
Decolonising pedagogies in undergraduate geography: student perspectives on a Decolonial Movements module	13
Translating green economy concepts into practice: ideas pitches as learning tools for sustainability education	13
Digital humanitarians for the Sustainable Development Goals: YouthMappers as a hybrid movement	11
Fostering constructive thinking about the ‘wicked problems’ of team-work and decision-making in tourism and geography	10
Combining proximate with online learning in real-time: ambidextrous teaching and pathways towards inclusion during COVID-19 restrictions and beyond	10
Teaching sensory geographies in practice: transforming students’ awareness and understanding through playful experimentation	10
Design precepts for online experiential learning programs to address wicked sustainability problems	10
Evaluation of story maps by future geography teachers	10
Interanimating Black sexualities and the geography classroom	9
Do educators realise the value of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in fieldwork learning?	9
Active learning using a smartphone app: analysing land use patterns in Cork City, Ireland	9
Towards the Nature of Geography for geography education: an exploratory account, learning from work on the Nature of Science	9
Teaching a geography field methods course amid the COVID-19 pandemic: reflections and lessons learned	9
Learning about Europe through educational gaming	8
How to incorporate theory in (urban) field trips: the built environment as concrete abstraction	8

Education for sustainable development with transdisciplinary-oriented courses - experiences and recommendations for future collaborations in higher education teaching	8
Pursuing PhD by publication in geography: a collaborative autoethnography of two African doctoral researchers	8
Disaster drills as experiential learning opportunities for geographic education	7
Learning by feeling: excursions into the affective landscape	6
Hope and grief in the human geography classroom	6
Envisioning indigenized geography: a two-eyed seeing approach	6
Use of oral examinations to assess student learning in the social sciences	6
Students’ negotiations of belonging in geoscience: experiences of faculty–student interactions when entering university	6
Student perceptions of reflection and the acquisition of higher-order thinking skills in a university sustainability course	6
International fieldwork as skills development: an exploratory study	6
Teaching geographies of the far-right in Germany – conceptualising hate and fear as didactic challenges	6
An indoor landscape for instruction of 3-D aerial drone imagery	6
Pandemic pedagogies: reflecting on online learning using the community of inquiry framework	5
Teaching “wicked” problems in geography	5
Authentic learning using mobile applications and contemporary geospatial information requirements related to Environmental Science	5
Student evaluations of using virtual reality to investigate natural hazard field sites	5
The effect of emotional experiences in fieldwork: embodied evidence from a visual approach	5
Teaching critical physical geography	5
Lockdown lessons: an international conversation on resilient GI science teaching	5
A GPS-enabled portable air pollution sensor and web-mapping technologies for field-based learning in health geography	5
Unsettling feelings in the classroom: scaffolding pedagogies of discomfort as part of decolonising human geography in higher education	5
Towards a pedagogical policy turn in geography	5
Conveying map finesse: thematic map making essentials for today’s university students	4
Commercial city building games as pedagogical tools: what have we learned?	4
Student authored atlas tours (story maps) as geography assignments	4
An investigation of undergraduate students’ spatial thinking about groundwater	4
The benefits of virtual fieldtrips for future-proofing geography teaching and learning	4
Changing geopolitics of higher education: economic effects of inbound international student mobility to Hungary	3
Effectiveness of visual communication and collaboration tools for online GIS teaching: using Padlet and Conceptboard	3
Virtualization in CyberGIS instruction: lessons learned constructing a private cloud to support development and delivery of a WebGIS course	3
Hopeful approaches to teaching and learning environmental “wicked problems”	3
Understanding city dynamics: using geolocated social media in a problem-based activity as an investigative tool to enhance student learning	3
The impact of peer-review on undergraduate grades when students decide whether to participate	3
Adopting and using geospatial technologies for teaching geography in Latin American higher education	3
How wide is the gap? Comparing geography graduates’ labor market success with that of peers from business and computer science	3
Neoliberal subjectivities and the teaching and learning of emotional geographies	3
Teaching human geography using a couplet game	3
Fostering a relational sense of place through video documentary assignments	3
Creative approach to tourism through creative approach to didactics	3
Developing pre-service teachers’ fieldwork pedagogical and content knowledge through designing enquiry-based fieldwork	3
Geographic literacy in spain with mental maps	3
Beyond knowledge exchange: doctoral training, collaborative research and reflective pedagogies in human geography	3
‘Nature-enhanced learning’ and geography education	3
Using “Autogeography,” sense of place and place-based approaches in the pedagogy of geographic thought	3
A place-based approach to blended learning	3
Web GIS as a pedagogical tool in tourist geography course: the effect on spatial thinking ability and self-efficacy	3
Big ideas in the geography curriculum: nature, awareness and need	3
Rethinking learning contexts through the concept of atmosphere and through contemporary art	2
Curriculum design for diversity: layering assessment and teaching for learners with different worldviews	2
Nimble at work: equipping students with first-order and second-order thinking	2

Online local natural hazards education for young adults: assessing program efficacy and changes in risk perception for Texas natural hazards	2
Mentoring graduate students in an era of faculty career restructuring	2
Emotions from and beyond the classroom. An experiment in teaching and sharing emotional methodologies in a geography course	2
For a pedagogy of hope: imagining worlds otherwise	2
When an international student stays at home: defining an international student in distance education	2
Fieldwork from desktop: webdoc for teaching in the time of pandemic	2
The use of “ writing retreats ” in supporting geography and environmental science undergraduate independent research projects	2
Spatialising Sport Management	2
Playing with Star Trek in the critical geography classroom: STEM education and otherwise possibilities	2
A problem-based learning course to teach Brazilian biology students about the viral hepatitis from a health geography perspective	2
The Last Hurrah (and The Long Haul): co-creation of theatre as climate change education	2
Podcasting urban geographies: examining the utility of student-generated research podcasts for deep learning and education for sustainable development	2
Understanding climate trends in Central America through practical problem-based learning	2
The mobility of experiential learning pedagogy: transferring ideas and practices from a large- to a small-campus setting	2
Experiencing (dis)comforting pedagogies: learning critical geography beyond the here and now	2
The 1964 freedom schools as neglected chapter in Geography education	2
How to thrive when studying online	2
Geopolitical music to the students’ minds	2
Double-blind multiple peer reviews to change students’ reading behaviour and help them develop their writing skills	2
The academic staff profile of Geographers at higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa: the challenges for transformation	2
Understanding the ‘degree awarding gap’ in geography, planning, geology and environmental sciences in UK higher education through peer research	2
Students’ comparison competencies in geography: results from an explorative assessment study	2
Exploration and practice of the use of mobile devices to assist in general geological field practice	2
Negotiating applied and critical perspectives within the geography curriculum	2
Building quantitative literacy in critical human geography curriculum	2