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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Wild brooms and learning analytics	399
Peer assessment using soft computing techniques	91
Effects of technology enhanced peer, teacher and self-feedback on students’ collaborative writing, critical thinking tendency and engagement in learning	57
The effect of the flipped classroom approach on creative thinking, self-esteem, and social interaction of English foreign language learners in intermediate level	45
Examining the role of computing identity in the computing experiences of women and racially minoritized undergraduates: a literature review	45
Not now, maybe later: the mediating influence of techno-overload on the relationship between academic self-efficacy and procrastination	41
A measurement of faculty views on the meaning and value of student privacy	39
An evaluation of a first-of-its-kind hybrid law degree program	34
Connecting affordances of physical and virtual laboratory modes to engineering epistemic practices	34
Multilayered-quality education ecosystem (MQEE): an intelligent education modal for sustainable quality education	26
Enhancing students’ beliefs regarding programming self-efficacy and intrinsic value of an online distributed Programming Environment	26
Adoption of open educational resources in the global south	25
Mobile-based artificial intelligence chatbot for self-regulated learning in a hybrid flipped classroom	24
Effects and acceptability of virtual reality to facilitate mindfulness practice in university students	22
Exploring satisfaction of online teaching faculty from a Job Demands-Resources model perspective: the mediating roles of emotional exhaustion and motivation	22
A critique of calculation and optionalization applied to online/blended course design	22
Investigating the influencing factors of the intention to continue using MOOCs: the perspective of modified TAM with TDT	20
Evaluating the design of digital tools for the transition to an e-continuous assessment in higher education	20
Accessible and inclusive online learning in higher education: a review of the literature	19
Process and summative assessment of groups’ collaborative knowledge building	19
Open badges and achievement goal orientation: a study with high-performing student programmers	18
Online laboratories and virtual experimentation in higher education from a sociotechnical-pedagogical design perspective	18
A multimodal analysis of college students’ collaborative problem solving in virtual experimentation activities: a perspective of cognitive load	17
Predicting the quality of robotics-enhanced lesson plans using motivation, academic standing, and collaboration status	16
Combining data from a LMS and a student register for exploring factors affecting study duration	16

Effectiveness of H5P in improving student learning outcomes in an online tertiary education setting	16
Post-secondary online learning in the U.S.: an integrative review of the literature on undergraduate student characteristics	15
Learning and development roles and competency domains in higher education: a content analysis of job announcements	15
Using chatbots to support student goal setting and social presence in fully online activities: learner engagement and perceptions	15
Exploring expert instructors’ conceptualization and teaching practices in asynchronous online discussions during case-based learning: a multiple case study	14
From awareness to empowerment: self-determination theory-informed learning analytics dashboards to enhance student engagement in asynchronous online courses	14
Personalisation in STE(A)M education: a review of literature from 2011 to 2020	14
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,	14
Review of research on the outcomes of embodied and collaborative learning in STEM in higher education with immersive technologies	14
Online learners’ self-regulated learning skills regarding LMS interactions: a profiling study	13
Analyzing the effects of instructional strategies on students’ on-task status from aspects of their learning behaviors and cognitive factors	13
A case study on the usage of lecture capture: perceptions of students, faculty members and administrators	12
Engaged learning during distraction: a case study of successful working moms in distance education	12
“Free selection and invitation” online peer assessment of undergraduates’ research competencies, flow, motivation and interaction in a research methods course	12
The relations between self-reported perceptions of learning environment, observational learning strategies, and academic outcome	12
A synthesis of surveys examining the impacts of COVID-19 and emergency remote learning on students in Canada	11
Learning analytics in support of inclusiveness and disabled students: a systematic review	11
The COVID-19 pandemic and E-learning: challenges and opportunities from the perspective of students and instructors	10
Using an integrated probabilistic clustering approach to detect student engagement across asynchronous and synchronous online discussions	10
Correction: Instructors’ educational ICT use in higher education in developing countries: evidence from three Ethiopian Universities	10
Flipped classroom: motivational affordances of spherical video-based immersive virtual reality in support of pre-lecture individual learning in pre-service teacher education	10
The impact of interactive synchronous HyFlex model on student academic performance in a large active learning introductory college design course	10
Remote labs in higher engineering education: engaging students with active learning pedagogy	9
Testing and exploring the predictors of faculty motivation to use learning analytics to enhance teaching effectiveness	9
Automated text detection from big data scene videos in higher education: a practical approach for MOOCs case study	8
Personalized games for computer science education in higher education: the effect of personalization feature on students’ engagement and flow state	8
Digital literacy: a review in the South Pacific	8
Using networked learning to improve learning analytics implementation	7
A call to action for eProfessionalism: developing the use of ePortfolio with emerging health and education practitioners	7
Virtual clinical assessment in medical education: an investigation of online conference technology	7
Exploring the relationship between students’ information problem solving patterns and epistemic beliefs: a mixed methods sequential analysis study	7
An exploratory study on fade-in versus fade-out scaffolding for novice programmers in online collaborative programming settings	6
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	6
Adopting distributed pair programming as an effective team learning activity: a systematic review	6
Using learning analytics to explore the multifaceted engagement in collaborative learning	6
Socially shared metacognitive supports in flipped or online classroom collaborative groups: examining the effect on motivation, group metacognition, group belonging, and cohesion	5
The effects of the regulated learning-supported flipped classroom on student performance	5
A scoping review of computational thinking assessments in higher education	5
Grand challenges in instructional design and technology: developing a strategic plan for coordinated research and development	5
Fuzzy-based active learning for predicting student academic performance using autoML: a step-wise approach	5
Students-Generative AI interaction patterns and its impact on academic writing	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
Introduction to special section: learning analytics as part of the higher education ecosystem	4
Online group projects in higher education: persistent challenges and implications for practice	4
Personalized training model for organizing blended and lifelong distance learning courses and its effectiveness in Higher Education	4
Lessons learned from designing a curriculum analytics tool for improving student learning and program quality	4
Learning analytics as data ecology: a tentative proposal	4
Validation of self-efficacy questionnaire of online learning for students with disabilities in higher education	4
Using text mining and machine learning to predict reasoning activities from think-aloud transcripts in computer assisted learning	3

Design of peer assessment rubrics for ICT topics	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
A story-driven gamified education on USB-based attack	3
A decade of highly cited articles in educational technology research: emerging trends, dominant themes, and future directions	3
Elementary preservice teachers learn cardiac form and function with virtual reality: using study replication to define features of best practice	3
Curriculum analytics in higher education institutions: a systematic literature review	3
The effect of learning analytics assisted recommendations and guidance feedback on students’ metacognitive awareness and academic achievements	3
A differentiated learning environment in domain model for learning disabled learners	3
Examining the effect of a genetic algorithm-enabled grouping method on collaborative performances, processes, and perceptions	3
Investigating learning processes through analysis of navigation behavior using log files	3