OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Learning Media and Technology is 9. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Legends’ teaching and learning with technology in teen space	133
Affordances and agency in students’ use of online platforms and resources beyond curricular boundaries	105
Making inclusive learning: how UDL shapes production culture in an EdTech company	79
Theorizing the future of generative AI in education	60
Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education	45
Problematizing feedback loops: ‘on’, ‘with’, and ‘beyond’ analytics dashboards in MOOCs	41
What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis	36
Power structures and perceptions of AI fairness in high-stakes language testing: the Pearson Test of English (PTE Academic) as case study	34
Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography	33
Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea	33
In search of humanness: professional identities of qualitative research educators in the age of generative AI	28
Social classification and the changing boundaries of learning. A neopragmatic perspective on social sorting in digital education	27
Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators	27
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment	24
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	24
Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic	23
Taking play and tinkering seriously in AI education: cases from Drag vs AI teen workshops	23
Stories from the future of lifelong learning: fiction, technology and speculative pedagogies	22
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	21
‘We have- we had a digital debt’: a case of digitalized school leadership practice	20
The educational robotics imaginary. EdTech industry, educational timescapes and the tyranny of connectivity	20
Navigating education and work futures through generative AI: transmaterial philosophy, education, and the algorithmic arts	20
Restorying trans futures: virtual world-becoming through VR painting and speculative storytelling	19
Rethinking the boundaries of learning in a digital age	18
Stories we make: speculative fiction and rememorative futures in civic learning	18

The EU policy discourse on EdTech and constructing the image of an excellent teacher	16
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy	16
Of teachers and centaurs: Exploring the interactions and intra-actions of educators on AI education platforms	15
Designing for reciprocity: participatory online professional learning after platformization	15
The form and function of education fiction: a design heuristic to foster convivial forms of inquiry	15
Shouts from Acro: contradictions, imaginations, and educational futures	14
Socio-material mangles: the learning management system and lecturer positioning	14
Profaning platforms: deactivating and reimagining digital ecosystems in education through playful misuse	14
Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech	14
On the ‘university of the future': a critical analysis of cohort-based course platform Maven	13
‘We are not cheating. We are helping each other out:’ digital collective cheating in secondary education	13
Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide	13
Media literacy and the concept of ‘technologies’ in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills	13
Misrepresentation or inclusion: promises of generative artificial intelligence in climate change education	13
Correction	13
Digitally Un/Free: the everyday impact of social media on the lives of young people	13
Religious ideologies of minimal computing: negotiating digital technology in religious nationalist education	12
Smartphones in the Swedish upper-secondary classroom: A policy enactment perspective	12
Subterfuge: a parental strategy for mediating young children’s digital media practices in Azerbaijan	12
What we imagine when we imagine AI: a framework for analyzing speculative storytelling on education and technology	12
Assetisation as a means to solve public problems: the research excellence framework and competitive future-making	12
Reimagining learning futures through lenses of speculative fiction, scholarly analysis, and public dialogue	11
Beyond the screen: student experiences of social connection in a hybrid university learning environment	11
Founders’ trajectories, capital and market-oriented framings of education in the French EdTech market	11
Education as a co-developed commodity in Finland? A rhetorical discourse analysis on business accelerator for EdTech startups	11
Technical agonism: embracing democratic dissensus in the datafication of education	11
Unearthing imaginaries: drama-based pedagogy for speculative futures of AI in higher education	11
The construction of legitimacy: a critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of educational technology in post-pandemic higher education	10
Developing teacher understandings of digital play in the early years of schooling	10
Imagining the future of artificial intelligence in education: a review of social science fiction	10
Virtual supremacy and electronic imperialism: the hegemonies of e-learning and computer assisted language learning (CALL)	10
When platformisation meets schooling: exploring teachers, students and parents’ experiences of digital platform use	10
The forgotten African American innovators of educational technology: stories of education, technology, and civil rights	10
Decoding school marketisation – exploring computational analytics in large-scale policy data	9
Algorithmic-authors in academia: blurring the boundaries of human and machine knowledge production	9
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models	9
Discursive construction of online teacher identity and legitimacy in English language teaching	9
Online religious learning: digital epistemic authority and self-socialization in religious communities	9
‘I hope this email finds you well’: how synthetic affect circulates through MagicSchool AI	9
Conflicting motives: challenges of generative AI in education	9