OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Smart classroom preferences and information literacy among college students	83
A literature review of questionnaires for the assessment of online learning with a specific focus on the factors and items employed	72
Taxonomies of technological knowledge in higher education: A mapping of students’ perceptions	42
Privacy versus pedagogy – students’ perceptions of using learning analytics in higher education	40
The effect of conceptions of learning and prior online course experiences on students’ choice of learning spaces for synchronous online learning during COVID-19	39
The effect on student behaviour and achievement of removing incentives to complete online formative assessments	37
Digital accreditations in MOOC-based training on sustainability: Factors that influence terminal efficiency	32
Improving student academic emotions and learning satisfaction in lectures in a foreign language with speech-enabled language translation technology	26
role of learning-related emotions, emotion regulation and technology acceptance in learner engagement with online professional development	26
Integrating design thinking into instructional design: The #OpenTeach case study	25
Challenges in a mobile English telecollaborative project: Towards a conceptual model	24
Virtual and augmented reality and pre-service teachers: Makers from muggles?	23
Bridging the intention-behaviour gap: Empirical evidence from the study of wiki use behaviour	21
Tele-mentoring using augmented reality technology in healthcare: A systematic review	19
Physical therapy using robotics: A project-based learning experience for undergraduate students	19
Collaboration or competition? The value of sector-wide collaboration in educational technology research	18
Online examinations: Factors that impact student experience and perceptions of academic performance	18
Access and Participation: The use of Technologies as tools for Inclusion by Spanish University Lecturers	17
A study of meta-analyses reporting quality in the large and expanding literature of educational technology	17
How and why are digital badges being used in higher education in New Zealand?	17
Investigating university students’ online proctoring acceptance during COVID-19: An extension of the technology acceptance model	16
Employability: Smart learning in extracurricular activities for developing college graduates' competencies	16
Humanising online teaching through care-centred pedagogies	15
Acting in secret: Interaction, knowledge construction and sequential discussion patterns of partial role-assignment in a MOOC	15
University students’ preference for flexible teaching models that foster constructivist learning practices	14

Uncovering socio-temporal dynamics in online discussions: An event-based approach	14
Analysing mobile learning designs: A framework for transforming learning post-COVID	14
Effects of a ChatGPT-based flipped learning guiding approach on learners’ courseware project performances and perceptions	13
Do instructor beliefs and attitudes matter? Understanding associations between beliefs, attitudes, and practices	13
Formative assessment of group work skills: An analytics-enabled conceptual framework	13
Promoting a sense of belonging in university online learning: How and why initial teacher education students experience an increased sense of belonging	13
AI in tertiary education: progress on research and practice	13
AJET and the shifting dynamics of educational technology publishing in 2024	12
Exploring the specification of educational compatibility of virtual reality within a technology acceptance model	12
Assessment and learning outcomes for generative AI in higher education: A scoping review on current research status and trends	12
Teacher digital competence development in higher education: Overview of systematic reviews	11
The effect of Chinese EFL students’ learning motivation on learning outcomes within a blended learning environment	11
AI-assisted marking: Functionality and limitations of ChatGPT in written assessment evaluation	11
Predicting mobile learning acceptance: An integrated model and empirical study based on higher education students' perceptions	11
The impact of an innovators group on the development of a culture of innovation in the use of educational technologies	10
Personalised learning model for academic leveling and improvement in higher education	10
Effects of STEM-focused Arduino practical activities on problem-solving and entrepreneurship skills	10
A qualitative study to understand the perspectives of MOOC providers on accessibility	10
The Continuous Pursuit of Smart Learning	9
The adoption of blended learning using Coursera MOOCs: A case study in a Vietnamese higher education institution	9
Exploring the concept of the digital educator during COVID-19	8
Smart Groups: A system to orchestrate collaboration in hybrid learning environments. A simulation study	8
Technological pedagogical content knowledge: Exploring new perspectives	8
Open Science and Educational Technology Research	8
Digital storytelling in teacher education: Developing pre-service teachers’ critical thinking	8
A technology-enhanced scaffolding instructional design for fully online courses	8
AJET in 2021: Change, bibliometrics and future directions	8
How university students negotiate cognitive-social interactions and leverage cognitive tools for mobile peer tutoring	8
Zoom in: Open educational resources for informal online learning during COVID-19 and beyond	7
Interrelated analysis of interaction, sequential patterns and academic achievement in online learning	7
Development and verification of the programming resilience scale for university students	7
Lost in multitasking: An exploration of Chinese university students’ in-class smartphone multitasking patterns using multiple approaches	7
The effects of facilitating conditions, digital competence, and technostress on higher education students’ digital informal learning: A moderated mediation examination	7
Faculty acceptance of virtual teaching platforms for online teaching: Moderating role of resistance to change	6
AJET in 2023: Reflections on educational technology, people, and bibliometrics	6
Students’ competencies discovery and assessment using learning analytics and semantic web	6
What kind of support do teachers really need in a blended learning context?	6
The use of virtual patient simulations in psychology: A scoping review	6
Learning technology as contested terrain: Insights from teaching academics and learning designers in Australian higher education	6
Using a three-layered social-cognitive network analysis framework for understanding online collaborative discussions	5
Effects of smartphone-based collaborative vlog projects on EFL learners’ speaking performance and learning engagement	5
Faculty adoption of online teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic: A lens of diffusion of innovation theory	5
Students’ experiences and acceptance of emergency online learning due to COVID-19	5
Student and educator perspectives on equity and online work integrated learning	5
Sentiment evolution with interaction levels in blended learning environments: Using learning analytics and epistemic network analysis	5
Repositioning students as co-creators of curriculum for online learning resources	5
Co-word analysis and academic performance from the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology in Web of Science	5
Structural relationships between self-regulated learning, teachers’ credibility, information and communications technology literacy and academic performance in blended learning	5
The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) in action: A pilot implementation of GenAI-supported assessment	5
From the margins to the mainstream: The online learning rethink and its implications for enhancing student equity	5

Integration of simulation technology with assessment in initial teacher education	5
The importance of choosing the right keywords for educational technology publications	5
Students' preference for the use of gamification in virtual learning environments	4
Examining self-regulated learning as a significant mediator among social presence, cognitive presence, and learning satisfaction in an asynchronous online course: A partial least squares structural eq	4
The online student experience: A MAC-ICE thematic structure	4
Smart classroom environments affect teacher-student interaction: Evidence from a behavioural sequence analysis	4
Enabling adaptive, personalised and context-aware interaction in a smart learning environment: Piloting the iCollab system	4
Mapping out a research agenda for generative artificial intelligence in tertiary education	4
Comparative Analysis of Augmented Reality in Engineering Drawing Course: Assessing Spatial Visualization and Cognitive Load with Marker-Based, Markerless, and Web-Based Approaches	4
Influence of the NAO robot as a teaching assistant on university students’ vocabulary learning and attitudes	4
Achieving lasting education in the new digital learning world	4
Person, context and judgement: Exploring the potential of a theoretical model describing the role of information and communication technology in the doctoral research process	4
Authorship practices in educational technology research	4
Contextualising thesis process digitalisation at a university in Ghana	4
Effects of flipped language classrooms on learning outcomes in higher education: A Bayesian meta-analysis	4
Race with the machines: Assessing the capability of generative AI in solving authentic assessments	4
Asynchronous text-based communication in online communities of foreign language learners: Design principles for practice	4
Designing flipped learning in initial teacher education: The experiences of two teacher educators	3
Analysing self-regulated learning strategies of MOOC learners through self-reported data	3
The concerning persistence of weird ideas about learning and educational technology and their influence on the future directions of higher education	3
“It’s a pain, but it’s not like the end of the world”: Students’ experiences of emergency remote teaching	3
An exploration of course and cohort communication spaces in Discord, Teams, and Moodle	3
Assuring the quality of online learning in higher education: Adaptations in design and implementation	3
Expectations for success: Auditing opportunities for students with print disabilities to fully engage in online learning environments in higher education	3
Students got mail: Do students read semi-tailored emails and what is the impact?	3
Factors affecting Chinese undergraduate medical students’ behavioural intention and actual use of intelligent tutoring systems	3
Artificial intelligence-driven virtual patients for communication skill development in healthcare students:	3
Transferring effective learning strategies across learning contexts matters: A study in problem-based learning	3
Predicting at-risk university students based on their e-book reading behaviours by using machine learning classifiers	3
Learning from error episodes in dialogue-videos: The influence of prior knowledge	3
An education in educational technology	3
Exploring preservice teacher self-reported and enacted TPACK after participating in a learning activity types short course	3
Examining the effects of note-taking styles on college students’ learning achievement and cognitive load	3
Does gender matter in online courses? A view through the lens of the community of inquiry	3
A meta-analysis of the moderating role of prior learning experience and mandatory participation on factors influencing MOOC learners’ continuance intention	3
TPACK leveraged: A redesigned online educational technology course for STEM preservice teachers	3
Need satisfaction and collective efficacy in undergraduate blog-driven classes: A structural equation modelling approach	2
Investigating the effect of emotional tone on learners’ reading engagement and peer acknowledgement in social annotation	2
It is like a friend to me: Critical usage of automated feedback systems by self-regulating English learners in higher education	2
Developing and investigating an electronic performance support system (EPSS) for academic performance	2
Unfolding knowledge co-construction processes through social annotation and online collaborative writing with text mining techniques	2
Evaluating and expanding usability and user satisfaction of an online research portal	2
Where's the harm? Screening student evaluations of teaching for offensive, threatening or distressing comments	2
Not drowning, waving: The role of video in a renewed digital learning world	2
Factors that influence cognitive presence: A scoping review	2
Home-campus nexus: The shift to homebased smart e-learning	2
Discussion forums: A misnomer? Examining lurkers, engagement and academic achievement	2
PhD by LMS: Using a learning management system to facilitate self-directed learning in a doctoral study	2
The choice of customisation strategies in training: An overview of parameters and their systematisation	2
What is the metaverse? Definitions, technologies and the community of inquiry	2
University students with special needs: Investigating factors influencing e-learning adoption	2
An examination of student user experience (UX) and perceptions of remote invigilation during online assessment	2
Unbundling teaching and learning in a flipped thermal physics classroom in higher education powered by emerging innovative technology	2
Technology-enabled higher education academic writing feedback: Practices, needs and preferences	2