OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ETR&D-Educational Technology Research and Development is 11. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the influence of favorite projects on programming skill improvement: analyzing the longitudinal dataset of 5 years of public activity on scratch social media	466
Elementary Students Learning Computer Programming: an investigation of their knowledge Retention, Motivation, and perceptions	260
Education and technology: elements of a relevant, comprehensive, and cumulative research agenda	243
Facebook post data: a primer for educational research	164
Should We account for classrooms? Analyzing online experimental data with student-level randomization	139
Implementation of the flipped classroom approach for promoting college students’ deeper learning	116
Successful and unsuccessful mapping behaviors for learning procedural-type knowledge	76
Student engagement profiles in a mobile app: Links to self-regulated learning and performance	74
From analogy to reflective thinking: an observation-identification-analogy-based virtual learning approach	69
A two-staged SEM: artificial neural network approach for understanding and predicting the factors of students’ satisfaction with emergency remote teaching	65
Design mobile computational thinking-integrated mathematics lessons based on the 5E instructional model for primary students	64
Exploring the influence of competition and collaboration on learning performance in digital game-based learning	62
A study of using mobile phone application in badminton teaching and learning process based on deep learning and auto-feedback-based WISER model	61
Enhancing self-regulated learning in online environments: challenges and opportunities for recommender system algorithms	61
Taking adaptive learning in educational settings to the next level: leveraging natural language processing for improved personalization	60
Enhancing design ldeation: comparing AIGC-engaged and traditional brainstorming in educational contexts	59
Preservice science teachers coding science simulations: epistemological understanding, coding skills, and lesson design	57
Exploring expert perceptions of creativity in instructional design: a phenomenographic study	55
The impact of synchronous online discussions and online flipped learning on student engagement and self-regulation among preliminary undergraduates in a basic math course	52
Designing for actively engaging with mathematics education research in mentoring practice: a Vignette Activity Sequence approach	52
Development research on an AI English learning support system to facilitate learner-generated-context-based learning	50
Design and development of an online formative peer assessment environment with instructional scaffolds	47
Factors contributing to teachers’ acceptance intention to gamified EFL tools: a scale development study	46
Entangled eclecticism: a sociotechnical-pedagogical systems theory approach to learning experience design	44
Constructing problems in context: a synthesized model of dialectical problem-framing	40

What I think I learned	37
Integrating cognition, self-regulation, motivation, and metacognition: a framework of post-pandemic flipped classroom design	35
Instructional design for tutoring on interactive platforms: creating educational interventions overcoming the digital gap	32
Correction to: Implementation of the flipped classroom approach for promoting college students’ deeper learning	32
The effects of reading prompts and of post-reading generative learning tasks on multiple document integration: evidence from concept network analysis	31
The effect of cumulative eye movements’ guidance of experts on transition from novice to expert	31
The implementation of a group knowledge awareness tool to promote collaborative discussions in China’s higher education	30
Effects of applying speech-enabled language translation technology to EMI lectures on students’ discussion quality and learning achievement	30
Prompting scientific concept learning in augmented reality: impact of the concept map strategy on mental models and cognitive load	30
Developing a digital tutor as an intermediary between students, teaching assistants, and lecturers	30
Instructional designers’ professional futures: insights from best possible self and epistemic network analysis	29
Artificial intelligence learning platform in a visual programming environment: exploring an artificial intelligence learning model	28
“Then You go to Snap”: Multimodal Making of Digital Comics in a Language Arts High School Classroom	28
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Exploring the use of social media for informal learning in professional development in Saudi Arabian higher education	28
Reflection as a social phenomenon: a conceptual framework toward group reflection research	27
Effects of different feedback strategies on academic achievements, learning motivations, and self-efficacy for novice programmers	27
A comparative study of students’ adoption and usage of mobile learning in developing countries: Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya	27
Each discipline is different: teacher capabilities for future-focussed digitally infused undergraduate programmes	26
Serious games in high-stakes assessment contexts: a systematic literature review into the game design principles for valid game-based performance assessment	26
Digital distractions in education: a systematic review of research on causes, consequences and prevention strategies	24
Design-based implementation research: milestones and trade-offs in designing a collaborative representation tool for engineering classrooms	23
Visualizing the influence of text structures on readers’ knowledge structures: Pathfinder network scaling technique	22
Design tensions in developing and using observation and assessment tools in makerspaces	22
A case-based reasoning and ontology-based hybrid recommender system for student orientation in higher education	21
Exploring the effect of parental involvement on student engagement and academic performance using process data from learning management system	21
Breaking online language learning barriers: the effects of Experience-Based Cyclical E-Curriculum Design on learners’ vocational second language performance and learning experiences	21
The use of distance-shortening strategies to enhance opportunistic collaboration in knowledge-building environments	21
Exploring non-dominant youths’ engineering identity through productive struggle in a making summer program	21
Exploring the relationships among adolescent students’ metacognitive awareness and social media use on predicting and explaining incidental information literacy	21
Beyond points and badges: systematic design and refinement of gamified learning through educational design research	20
Experience sampling methodology and technology: an approach for examining situational, longitudinal, and multi-dimensional characteristics of engagement	20
Factors influencing teachers’ technology adoption in technology-rich classrooms: model development and test	19
Integrating augmented reality into inquiry-based learning approach in primary science classrooms	19
Uncovering variations in learning behaviors and cognitive engagement among students with diverse learning goals and outcomes	19
Development and students’ evaluation of a blended online and offline pedagogy for physical education theory curriculum in China during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Effects on the learning performance of elementary school students using a situation-based interactive e-book in a flipped mathematics classroom	18
Detector-driven classroom interviewing: focusing qualitative researcher time by selecting cases in situ	18
The intersection of artificial intelligence and instructional design practice: a systematic review	18
A software prototype of formative assessment: designing and usability measurement	18
Comparing the effects of unplugged activities and plugged activities on the development of students'computational thinking: a meta-analysis	18
Self-regulation, motivation, and outcomes in HyFlex classrooms	18
How do they define design failure? An investigation of design failure in instructional design practice from the practitioners’ perspective	18
Online instructors’ pedagogical beliefs and choice of student learning activities	18
Multimodal analysis of interaction data from embodied education technologies	18
Usability research in educational technology: a state-of-the-art systematic review	17
Agile eVidence-Informed Design (AVIDesign): Unlocking the potential of emerging educational technologies and innovations	17
The influence of course community and personal community support on learner engagement in online courses	17
Teachers’ AI digital competencies and twenty-first century skills in the post-pandemic world	17
An exploration of factors that predict higher education faculty members’ intentions to utilize emerging technologies	16
Integrating artificial intelligence in literacy lessons for elementary classrooms: a co-design approach	16

Incorporating spirituality and art factors into interdisciplinary tasks: project-based STREAM, STEAM, and STEM approaches	16
Human–machine knowledge building: reconceptualising knowledge building partnerships in the age of artificial intelligence	16
Does slow and steady win the race?: Clustering patterns of students’ behaviors in an interactive online mathematics game	16
Evaluating the impact of an early reading app on preschool literacy skills: A pilot randomized control study	16
Tracing the essence: ways to develop abstraction in computational thinking	16
Enhancing Vocabulary Learning and Retention in EFL Students: A Comparative Study of ARLOOPA Augmented Reality App in Flipped Online and Flipped Face-to-Face Classes	16
Assessing the impact of substituting interaction types: an empirical study of the interaction equivalency theory	16
Exploring the impact of a CALL tool for emergent bilinguals	15
Implementation of Lettersmith to improve the writing process among graduate-level public health students: Results from a pilot evaluation study	15
Relational topologies in the learning activity spaces: operationalising a sociomaterial approach	14
Measuring students’ perception of an engaging online learning environment: an argument-based scale validation study	14
Missed opportunities in mixed methods EdTech research? Visual joint display development as an analytical strategy for achieving integration in mixed methods studies	14
Dimensions of scale: Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx)—a case study of educational technology initiative in India	14
Effect of an interactive e-book on middle school students' mathematics reading and spatial ability	14
Weaving in: shifts in youth mathematical engagement through weaving	14
The influence of the conceptual structure of external representations when relearning history content	14
Exploring students’ behavioral patterns when playing educational games with learning supports at different timings	14
Instructor presence in instructional videos in higher education: three field experiments in university courses	14
Interweaving of self-regulated learning and game-based learning in higher education: a review of academic publications from 2009 to 2020	13
Correction: Analyzing the discourse on open educational resources on Twitter: a sentiment analysis approach	13
Role-playing monument exploration: an online educational game with a role-playing mechanism and multi-dimensional scaffolding for monument tours	13
Actualization of teaching conceptions in lesson design: how teaching conceptions shape TPACK regarding spherical video-based virtual reality-supported writing instruction	13
The added value of game elements: better training performance but comparable learning gains	13
Concept maps in technological contexts of higher education: a systematic review of selected SSCI publications	13
Conceptual and theoretical frameworks for leveraging makerspaces to encourage and retain underrepresented populations in STEM through learning by design	13
Facial expression recognition for investigating attention and affective states in synchronous online higher education	13
Applying participatory design for developing an unplugged game to learning graph theory	13
The influence of organizational factors on the acceptance of online teaching among college faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study in mainland China	13
Technology-based interactive guidance to promote learning performance and self-regulation: a chatbot-assisted self-regulated learning approach	12
The handwriting programming language for primary school: aligning computer science education with established teaching practices	12
Interpreting institute culture dynamics of technology adoption: a downscaling dynamic model	12
An educational model of equity and computing: a study of marginalized student experience during COVID pandemic	12
The influence of pre-reading purpose and extra-textual networks with summary writing on multiple document concept network integration: a replication of Wei et al. (2024)	12
How to promote students to pose deep questions in knowledge building? A data-driven approach to assessment and feedback	12
Learning analytics in inquiry-based learning: a systematic review	12
A systematic review of educational online peer-review and assessment systems: charting the landscape	12
Correction to: Promise and reality: using ICTs to bridge China’s rural–urban divide in education	12
Effects of different graphic organizers in asynchronous online discussions	12
Static, dynamic, or human? The role of slide dynamics and instructor cues in video lectures	12
Examination of systemic factors that impact instructional designers’ practices in higher education	12
Instructional design students’ design judgment development	12
Creative intention and persistence in educational robotic	12
From abstract ethics to situated practice: a bibliometric analysis of AI ethics and professional judgement	12
Applying the DT-CDIO engineering design model in a flipped learning programming course	12
Predicting students engagement in asynchronous online learning: a mixed-method approach	12
The impact of emerging educational technologies, including artificial intelligence and augmented reality, on the improvement of practical skills learning	11
Exploring teachers’ emotional experience in a TPACK development task	11
Multimedia-based cybersecurity and privacy professional development on educational technology for K-12 personnel	11
An exploratory study of a new concept macrostructure measure when learning history in middle school	11
Augmented reality for area measurement reasoning of elementary students	11
Impact of using authentic online learning environments on students’ perceived employability	11
Precision diagnosis in virtual learning contexts: a predict-observe-explain-diagnose-based approach to scientific inquiry	11
Online presence and technology-enhanced language learning experience: a multivariate relationship of learning aspiration, perceived authenticity and learning engagement	11
A comprehensive review of instructional designer research and approaches in learning design	11
Exploring collaborative caption editing to augment video-based learning	11
Could virtual reality be the next approach for international students learning Maltese?	11
Transfer of responsibility from scaffolding to preservice early childhood teachers learning to debug	11