OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Computing 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The COVID-19 pandemic and E-learning: challenges and opportunities from the perspective of students and instructors	273
Perceived user satisfaction and intention to use massive open online courses (MOOCs)	41
Designing supports for promoting self-regulated learning in the flipped classroom	34
Influence of learner motivational dispositions on MOOC completion	31
Using chatbots to support student goal setting and social presence in fully online activities: learner engagement and perceptions	30
Digital literacy: a review in the South Pacific	27
The effects of video lecture viewing strategies on cognitive load	26
Gamification in education: a mixed-methods study of gender on computer science students’ academic performance and identity development	24
Exploring the acceptance for e-learning among higher education students in India: combining technology acceptance model with external variables	22
The effects of social and cognitive cues on learning comprehension, eye-gaze pattern, and cognitive load in video instruction	19
The relationship among motivation, self-monitoring, self-management, and learning strategies of MOOC learners	18
A novel automated essay scoring approach for reliable higher educational assessments	17
Examining barriers and desired supports to increase faculty members’ use of digital technologies: perspectives of faculty, staff and administrators	17
Effects of embedded questions in recorded lectures	16
A differentiated learning environment in domain model for learning disabled learners	16
Examining key factors of beginner’s continuance intention in blended learning in higher education	16
Exploring instructors’ perspectives, practices, and perceived support needs and barriers related to the gamification of MOOCs	16
Gaining insight from survey data: an analysis of the community of inquiry survey using Rasch measurement techniques	15
Fuzzy-based active learning for predicting student academic performance using autoML: a step-wise approach	13
Utilizing learning analytics in course design: voices from instructional designers in higher education	13
The effects of the regulated learning-supported flipped classroom on student performance	13
A scoping review of computational thinking assessments in higher education	13
Improving prediction of students’ performance in intelligent tutoring systems using attribute selection and ensembles of different multimodal data sources	12
Data science for analyzing and improving educational processes	12
Improve teaching with modalities and collaborative groups in an LMS: an analysis of monitoring using visualisation techniques	12

Effects of technology enhanced peer, teacher and self-feedback on students’ collaborative writing, critical thinking tendency and engagement in learning	10
Remote labs in higher engineering education: engaging students with active learning pedagogy	10
IoT text analytics in smart education and beyond	10
Multilayered-quality education ecosystem (MQEE): an intelligent education modal for sustainable quality education	9
Violation of digital and analog academic integrity through the eyes of faculty members and students: Do institutional role and technology change ethical perspectives?	8
Flipped classroom: motivational affordances of spherical video-based immersive virtual reality in support of pre-lecture individual learning in pre-service teacher education	8
Using learning analytics to explore the multifaceted engagement in collaborative learning	8
An exploratory study on fade-in versus fade-out scaffolding for novice programmers in online collaborative programming settings	8
Evaluating higher education educators’ computer technology competencies in Libya	7
Providing students with agency to self-scaffold in a computational science and engineering course	7
An analysis of learning analytics in personalised learning	7
The effect of learning analytics assisted recommendations and guidance feedback on students’ metacognitive awareness and academic achievements	7
Personalized training model for organizing blended and lifelong distance learning courses and its effectiveness in Higher Education	7
A synthesis of surveys examining the impacts of COVID-19 and emergency remote learning on students in Canada	7
Examining the effect of a genetic algorithm-enabled grouping method on collaborative performances, processes, and perceptions	7
The use and application of learning theory in learning analytics: a scoping review	7
Scaffolding problem solving with learners’ own self explanations of subgoals	7
Does one size fit all? Investigating the effect of group size and gamification on learners’ behaviors in higher education	7
Learning analytics in support of inclusiveness and disabled students: a systematic review	6
Exploring the cohesion of classroom community from the perspectives of social presence and social capital	6
The effect of mobile phone usage policy on college students’ learning	6
Partial versus full captioning mode to improve L2 vocabulary acquisition in a mobile-assisted language learning setting: words pronunciation domain	6
Improving the portability of predicting students’ performance models by using ontologies	6
Understanding Chinese teachers’ informal online learning continuance in a mobile learning community: an intrinsic–extrinsic motivation perspective	6
Extending social presence theory: social presence divergence and interaction integration in online distance learning	6
A multimodal analysis of college students’ collaborative problem solving in virtual experimentation activities: a perspective of cognitive load	5
Personalisation in STE(A)M education: a review of literature from 2011 to 2020	5
Online learning and blended learning: new practices derived from the pandemic-driven disruption	5
Learning analytics as data ecology: a tentative proposal	5
Virtual clinical assessment in medical education: an investigation of online conference technology	5
The impact of interactive synchronous HyFlex model on student academic performance in a large active learning introductory college design course	4
ICT efficacy and response to different needs in university classrooms: effects on attitudes and active behaviour towards technology	4
Instructors’ conceptualization and implementation of scaffolding in online higher education courses	4
Adopting a framework to support the process of critical reflection and understanding of online engagement	4
Does project focus influence challenges and opportunities of open online education? A sub-group analysis of group-concept mapping data	4
Exploring the effects of corpus-based business English writing instruction on EFL learners’ writing proficiency and perception	4
Digital technology adaptation and initiatives: a systematic review of teaching and learning during COVID-19	4
Automated text detection from big data scene videos in higher education: a practical approach for MOOCs case study	4
An investigation of under-represented MOOC populations: motivation, self-regulation and grit among 2-year college students in Korea	4
An exploration of factors influencing the decision-making process and selection of academic help sources	3
Lessons learned from designing a curriculum analytics tool for improving student learning and program quality	3
Exploring collaborative problem solving in virtual laboratories: a perspective of socially shared metacognition	3
What should learning designers learn?	3
Correction: Instructors’ educational ICT use in higher education in developing countries: evidence from three Ethiopian Universities	3
Peer assessment using soft computing techniques	3
Leveraging learning experience design: digital media approaches to influence motivational traits that support student learning behaviors in undergraduate online courses	3
Post-secondary online learning in the U.S.: an integrative review of the literature on undergraduate student characteristics	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
Online group projects in higher education: persistent challenges and implications for practice	2
The role of service quality in fostering different types of perceived value for student blended learning satisfaction	2

Adopting distributed pair programming as an effective team learning activity: a systematic review	2
Analyzing the effects of instructional strategies on students’ on-task status from aspects of their learning behaviors and cognitive factors	2
Fostering non-aviation undergraduates’ aviation literacy in an online aviation laboratory: effects on students’ perceptions, motivation, industry optimism	2
Fostering autonomous motivation: a deeper evaluation of gamified learning	2
Design and effects of the teacher-student interaction model in the online learning spaces	2
Instructors’ educational ICT use in higher education in developing countries: evidence from three Ethiopian Universities	2
Do graphic and textual interactive content organizers have the same impact on hypertext processing and learning outcome?	2
Non-traditional students’ preferences for learning technologies and impacts on academic self-efficacy	2
Effectiveness of H5P in improving student learning outcomes in an online tertiary education setting	2
Adjusting sails for changing winds: exploring Reddit use for professional purposes in higher education	2
Using networked learning to improve learning analytics implementation	2