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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of technology enhanced peer, teacher and self-feedback on students’ collaborative writing, critical thinking tendency and engagement in learning	160
Wild brooms and learning analytics	71
Examining the role of computing identity in the computing experiences of women and racially minoritized undergraduates: a literature review	63
A measurement of faculty views on the meaning and value of student privacy	60
The effect of the flipped classroom approach on creative thinking, self-esteem, and social interaction of English foreign language learners in intermediate level	55
Not now, maybe later: the mediating influence of techno-overload on the relationship between academic self-efficacy and procrastination	50
Connecting affordances of physical and virtual laboratory modes to engineering epistemic practices	44
Investigating the influencing factors of the intention to continue using MOOCs: the perspective of modified TAM with TDT	41
A critique of calculation and optionalization applied to online/blended course design	39
Effects and acceptability of virtual reality to facilitate mindfulness practice in university students	34
HyFlex course design: outcomes, challenges, and supports for students and instructors	31
Empowering student engagement: the dynamics of learner traits in digital feedback environments	31
Adoption of open educational resources in the global south	31
Mobile-based artificial intelligence chatbot for self-regulated learning in a hybrid flipped classroom	30
Exploring satisfaction of online teaching faculty from a Job Demands-Resources model perspective: the mediating roles of emotional exhaustion and motivation	28
Design-based research to develop design principles for collaborative learning in asynchronous distributed online groups	26
A note from the advisory board	26
Effectiveness of gamification on team building activities to improve student learning experiences in online courses	26
Process and summative assessment of groups’ collaborative knowledge building	24
Online laboratories and virtual experimentation in higher education from a sociotechnical-pedagogical design perspective	24
Profiles of students’ behavioral engagement and their associations to academic motivation in online learning	24
Evaluating the design of digital tools for the transition to an e-continuous assessment in higher education	22
Accessible and inclusive online learning in higher education: a review of the literature	22
Digital literacy of English majors: subjective versus objective assessment	22
Effectiveness of H5P in improving student learning outcomes in an online tertiary education setting	21

Open badges and achievement goal orientation: a study with high-performing student programmers	21
Combining data from a LMS and a student register for exploring factors affecting study duration	20
Predicting the quality of robotics-enhanced lesson plans using motivation, academic standing, and collaboration status	20
Using chatbots to support student goal setting and social presence in fully online activities: learner engagement and perceptions	18
Post-secondary online learning in the U.S.: an integrative review of the literature on undergraduate student characteristics	18
Honoring sovereignties through technology within indigenous community research partnerships	18
Personalisation in STE(A)M education: a review of literature from 2011 to 2020	17
A systems thinking perspective on learning design in higher education	16
Review of research on the outcomes of embodied and collaborative learning in STEM in higher education with immersive technologies	16
Understanding university students’ self-directed online learning in the context of emergency remote teaching: the role of online learning readiness and digital literacy	15
How does task complexity affect group processes and dynamics in computer-supported collaborative learning? An analysis of structural relationships between perceived task complexity, group atmosphere,	15
Leveraging contrastive learning to improve group and individual fairness in predictive analytics for online learning	14
From awareness to empowerment: self-determination theory-informed learning analytics dashboards to enhance student engagement in asynchronous online courses	14
Exploring expert instructors’ conceptualization and teaching practices in asynchronous online discussions during case-based learning: a multiple case study	13
Analyzing the effects of instructional strategies on students’ on-task status from aspects of their learning behaviors and cognitive factors	12
Building a policy research agenda in educational technology: current disconnects and future recommendations	11
Educational design research for relevant & robust scholarship	10
Online learners’ self-regulated learning skills regarding LMS interactions: a profiling study	10
Engaged learning during distraction: a case study of successful working moms in distance education	10
The impact of teacher, peer, and automated writing evaluation feedback on developing deep writing skills: a comparative study	10
“Free selection and invitation” online peer assessment of undergraduates’ research competencies, flow, motivation and interaction in a research methods course	10
The relations between self-reported perceptions of learning environment, observational learning strategies, and academic outcome	9
What makes ALEKS learning successful?: influences of prior knowledge, learning time, self-efficacy, and resource management on learning achievement	9
A synthesis of surveys examining the impacts of COVID-19 and emergency remote learning on students in Canada	9
Using an integrated probabilistic clustering approach to detect student engagement across asynchronous and synchronous online discussions	9
Correction: Instructors’ educational ICT use in higher education in developing countries: evidence from three Ethiopian Universities	8
Learning analytics in support of inclusiveness and disabled students: a systematic review	8
Remote labs in higher engineering education: engaging students with active learning pedagogy	8
Exploring the internal dynamics of collaborative engagement in high- and low-performing collaborative problem-solving groups	8
Applications of human–AI interaction to optimize teaching workload and improve student writing	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
The impact of interactive synchronous HyFlex model on student academic performance in a large active learning introductory college design course	8
Exploring the relationship between students’ information problem solving patterns and epistemic beliefs: a mixed methods sequential analysis study	8
Personalized games for computer science education in higher education: the effect of personalization feature on students’ engagement and flow state	7
The significance of personality traits, collaborative attitudes, and group composition during collaborative online international learning (COIL): a mixed methods study	7
Ellulian provocations for educational technology and higher education	7
A call to action for eProfessionalism: developing the use of ePortfolio with emerging health and education practitioners	7
Of house of cards and air castles, a deep dive into the fertile fields of educational technologies and technology enhanced learning	7
Using networked learning to improve learning analytics implementation	7
Adaptive teaching in higher education: real-time design patterns for educator-led instruction	6
Grand challenges in instructional design and technology: developing a strategic plan for coordinated research and development	6
Teachers’ readiness for blended learning, digital competences and digital instructional material development self-efficacy	6
Using learning analytics to explore the multifaceted engagement in collaborative learning	6
Students-Generative AI interaction patterns and its impact on academic writing	6
Adopting distributed pair programming as an effective team learning activity: a systematic review	6
Online group projects in higher education: persistent challenges and implications for practice	5
Socially shared metacognitive supports in flipped or online classroom collaborative groups: examining the effect on motivation, group metacognition, group belonging, and cohesion	5
Capturing students’ LMS experience: measurement invariance across Chinese and English versions	5
Exploring the role of a microlearning instructional approach in an introductory database programming course: an exploratory case study	4
A decade of highly cited articles in educational technology research: emerging trends, dominant themes, and future directions	4

Is education better because of us? How ed tech can answer the call to produce research that matters	4
Using design-based research to gauge the impact of an open educational resource repository to support online teaching and learning	4
Validation of self-efficacy questionnaire of online learning for students with disabilities in higher education	4
Understanding the pathways to online learner engagement and satisfaction in higher education: the function of digital literacy and dialogue	4
Using text mining and machine learning to predict reasoning activities from think-aloud transcripts in computer assisted learning	4
A story-driven gamified education on USB-based attack	4
Learning analytics as data ecology: a tentative proposal	4
Introduction to special section: learning analytics as part of the higher education ecosystem	4
Digital social multitasking in educational contexts: a study of motives and task relevance in college classrooms	4
The AI disruption in engineering education: an analysis of changing student norms through cultural historical activity theory	4
Privacy in online proctoring systems in higher education: stakeholders’ perceptions, awareness and responsibility	4
The impact of pedagogical agent’s emotional expression on multimedia learning: a multi-faceted perspective	3
Examining the effect of a genetic algorithm-enabled grouping method on collaborative performances, processes, and perceptions	3
Patterns of behavioral engagement in an online english language course: cluster analysis	3
A meta-analysis addressing the relationship between self-regulated learning strategies and academic performance in online higher education	3
Instructional designer perspectives on the pursuit of quality in online course design	3
Investigating learning processes through analysis of navigation behavior using log files	3
Elementary preservice teachers learn cardiac form and function with virtual reality: using study replication to define features of best practice	3
Farming with data: tracing critical tensions using data science for food justice	3
Centers of teaching excellence in American universities: organizational structures, services, operations and evaluation	3
The use and application of learning theory in learning analytics: a scoping review	3
Using artificial intelligence in the development of self-determined lifelong learners in higher education: a scoping review	3
Exploring collaborative problem solving in virtual laboratories: a perspective of socially shared metacognition	3
Academic course planning recommendation and students’ performance prediction multi-modal based on educational data mining techniques	3
Investigating the Effect of Community of Inquiry Presences and Learner Autonomy on Satisfaction and Persistence in Blended and Online Courses	3
Curriculum analytics in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review	3