OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Computing in Higher Education is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The COVID-19 pandemic and E-learning: challenges and opportunities from the perspective of students and instructors	337
Using chatbots to support student goal setting and social presence in fully online activities: learner engagement and perceptions	53
Designing supports for promoting self-regulated learning in the flipped classroom	44
Digital literacy: a review in the South Pacific	43
Gamification in education: a mixed-methods study of gender on computer science students’ academic performance and identity development	34
Exploring the acceptance for e-learning among higher education students in India: combining technology acceptance model with external variables	33
A scoping review of computational thinking assessments in higher education	31
A novel automated essay scoring approach for reliable higher educational assessments	27
The relationship among motivation, self-monitoring, self-management, and learning strategies of MOOC learners	25
Examining key factors of beginner’s continuance intention in blended learning in higher education	25
Effects of technology enhanced peer, teacher and self-feedback on students’ collaborative writing, critical thinking tendency and engagement in learning	21
Gaining insight from survey data: an analysis of the community of inquiry survey using Rasch measurement techniques	19
The effects of the regulated learning-supported flipped classroom on student performance	19
A differentiated learning environment in domain model for learning disabled learners	19
Remote labs in higher engineering education: engaging students with active learning pedagogy	17
Improve teaching with modalities and collaborative groups in an LMS: an analysis of monitoring using visualisation techniques	16
Improving prediction of students’ performance in intelligent tutoring systems using attribute selection and ensembles of different multimodal data sources	16
The use and application of learning theory in learning analytics: a scoping review	15
An exploratory study on fade-in versus fade-out scaffolding for novice programmers in online collaborative programming settings	15
IoT text analytics in smart education and beyond	14
Fuzzy-based active learning for predicting student academic performance using autoML: a step-wise approach	14
Data science for analyzing and improving educational processes	14
Learning analytics in support of inclusiveness and disabled students: a systematic review	13
An analysis of learning analytics in personalised learning	13
Providing students with agency to self-scaffold in a computational science and engineering course	12

Instructors’ conceptualization and implementation of scaffolding in online higher education courses	12
Flipped classroom: motivational affordances of spherical video-based immersive virtual reality in support of pre-lecture individual learning in pre-service teacher education	11
Examining the effect of a genetic algorithm-enabled grouping method on collaborative performances, processes, and perceptions	11
Multilayered-quality education ecosystem (MQEE): an intelligent education modal for sustainable quality education	11
Understanding Chinese teachers’ informal online learning continuance in a mobile learning community: an intrinsic–extrinsic motivation perspective	11
Using learning analytics to explore the multifaceted engagement in collaborative learning	11
Partial versus full captioning mode to improve L2 vocabulary acquisition in a mobile-assisted language learning setting: words pronunciation domain	10
The effect of learning analytics assisted recommendations and guidance feedback on students’ metacognitive awareness and academic achievements	10
Leveraging learning experience design: digital media approaches to influence motivational traits that support student learning behaviors in undergraduate online courses	9
Does one size fit all? Investigating the effect of group size and gamification on learners’ behaviors in higher education	9
Post-secondary online learning in the U.S.: an integrative review of the literature on undergraduate student characteristics	9
A multimodal analysis of college students’ collaborative problem solving in virtual experimentation activities: a perspective of cognitive load	9
Personalized training model for organizing blended and lifelong distance learning courses and its effectiveness in Higher Education	9
A synthesis of surveys examining the impacts of COVID-19 and emergency remote learning on students in Canada	9
Design and effects of the teacher-student interaction model in the online learning spaces	8
Personalisation in STE(A)M education: a review of literature from 2011 to 2020	8
Improving the portability of predicting students’ performance models by using ontologies	8
Scaffolding problem solving with learners’ own self explanations of subgoals	8
The impact of interactive synchronous HyFlex model on student academic performance in a large active learning introductory college design course	8
Extending social presence theory: social presence divergence and interaction integration in online distance learning	8
Adopting distributed pair programming as an effective team learning activity: a systematic review	7
Learning analytics as data ecology: a tentative proposal	7
The effect of mobile phone usage policy on college students’ learning	7
Online learning and blended learning: new practices derived from the pandemic-driven disruption	7
Exploring the cohesion of classroom community from the perspectives of social presence and social capital	7
Online group projects in higher education: persistent challenges and implications for practice	6
Digital technology adaptation and initiatives: a systematic review of teaching and learning during COVID-19	6
Lessons learned from designing a curriculum analytics tool for improving student learning and program quality	6
ICT efficacy and response to different needs in university classrooms: effects on attitudes and active behaviour towards technology	6
Exploring the effects of corpus-based business English writing instruction on EFL learners’ writing proficiency and perception	5
The role of service quality in fostering different types of perceived value for student blended learning satisfaction	5
Exploring collaborative problem solving in virtual laboratories: a perspective of socially shared metacognition	5
Online laboratories and virtual experimentation in higher education from a sociotechnical-pedagogical design perspective	5
Virtual clinical assessment in medical education: an investigation of online conference technology	5
An investigation of under-represented MOOC populations: motivation, self-regulation and grit among 2-year college students in Korea	4
Effectiveness of H5P in improving student learning outcomes in an online tertiary education setting	4
Adjusting sails for changing winds: exploring Reddit use for professional purposes in higher education	4
Peer assessment using soft computing techniques	4
Using social media as e-Portfolios to support learning in higher education: a literature analysis	4
Fostering autonomous motivation: a deeper evaluation of gamified learning	4
Online learners’ self-regulated learning skills regarding LMS interactions: a profiling study	4
Exploring the relationships between students’ network characteristics, discussion topics and learning outcomes in a course discussion forum	4
What should learning designers learn?	4
Adopting a framework to support the process of critical reflection and understanding of online engagement	4
Automated text detection from big data scene videos in higher education: a practical approach for MOOCs case study	4
Non-traditional students’ preferences for learning technologies and impacts on academic self-efficacy	3
An investigation of self-regulated learning in a novel MOOC platform	3
Investigating learning processes through analysis of navigation behavior using log files	3
A measurement of faculty views on the meaning and value of student privacy	3
The design and development of an open educational resources intervention in a college course that manifests in open educational practices: a design-based research study	3

Using networked learning to improve learning analytics implementation	3
Enhancing students’ beliefs regarding programming self-efficacy and intrinsic value of an online distributed Programming Environment	3
Do graphic and textual interactive content organizers have the same impact on hypertext processing and learning outcome?	3
Fostering non-aviation undergraduates’ aviation literacy in an online aviation laboratory: effects on students’ perceptions, motivation, industry optimism	3
Instructors’ educational ICT use in higher education in developing countries: evidence from three Ethiopian Universities	3
Enhancing learning from online video lectures: the impact of embedded learning prompts in an undergraduate physics lesson	3
Analyzing the effects of instructional strategies on students’ on-task status from aspects of their learning behaviors and cognitive factors	3