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

Article	Citations
‘Legends’ teaching and learning with technology in teen space	172
Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education	119
Theorizing the future of generative AI in education	87
Affordances and agency in students’ use of online platforms and resources beyond curricular boundaries	62
Problematizing feedback loops: ‘on’, ‘with’, and ‘beyond’ analytics dashboards in MOOCs	52
Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography	36
Power structures and perceptions of AI fairness in high-stakes language testing: the Pearson Test of English (PTE Academic) as case study	36
Enforcing unwarranted optimism: critical frame analysis on educational digitalisation policies in South Korea	35
In search of humanness: professional identities of qualitative research educators in the age of generative AI	30
What do we know about YouTube content about academic writing? A multimodal analysis	29
Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators	27
Digital cultural knowledge and curriculum: the experiences of international students as they moved from on-campus to on-line education during the pandemic	21
Social classification and the changing boundaries of learning. A neopragmatic perspective on social sorting in digital education	21
Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment	21
The educational robotics imaginary. EdTech industry, educational timescapes and the tyranny of connectivity	20
Taking play and tinkering seriously in AI education: cases from Drag vs AI teen workshops	20
Navigating education and work futures through generative AI: transmaterial philosophy, education, and the algorithmic arts	20
Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?	20
Different voices, different bodies: presence–absence in the digital university	19
Stories from the future of lifelong learning: fiction, technology and speculative pedagogies	19
‘We have- we had a digital debt’: a case of digitalized school leadership practice	19
Of teachers and centaurs: Exploring the interactions and intra-actions of educators on AI education platforms	18
Restorying trans futures: virtual world-becoming through VR painting and speculative storytelling	18
Stories we make: speculative fiction and rememorative futures in civic learning	17
The EU policy discourse on EdTech and constructing the image of an excellent teacher	17

Rethinking the boundaries of learning in a digital age	17
Responding to sociotechnical controversies in education: a modest proposal toward technical democracy	16
Socio-material mangles: the learning management system and lecturer positioning	16
The form and function of education fiction: a design heuristic to foster convivial forms of inquiry	15
Returning the data gaze in higher education	15
Edunudge	14
Perspectives on restorative practices and online-mediated harm in schools: implementation challenges	14
Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech	14
‘We are not cheating. We are helping each other out:’ digital collective cheating in secondary education	14
Shouts from Acro: contradictions, imaginations, and educational futures	14
Privacy and distance learning in turbulent times: a comparison of German and Israeli schools during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Media literacy and the concept of ‘technologies’ in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills	13
Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide	12
Digitally Un/Free: the everyday impact of social media on the lives of young people	12
Correction	12
Misrepresentation or inclusion: promises of generative artificial intelligence in climate change education	12
On the ‘university of the future': a critical analysis of cohort-based course platform Maven	12
Smartphones in the Swedish upper-secondary classroom: A policy enactment perspective	11
Beyond the screen: student experiences of social connection in a hybrid university learning environment	11
Assetisation as a means to solve public problems: the research excellence framework and competitive future-making	11
Technical agonism: embracing democratic dissensus in the datafication of education	11
Alone-together: intergenerational mapping of digital and analogue spaces of self	11
Education as a co-developed commodity in Finland? A rhetorical discourse analysis on business accelerator for EdTech startups	11
Religious ideologies of minimal computing: negotiating digital technology in religious nationalist education	11
Virtual supremacy and electronic imperialism: the hegemonies of e-learning and computer assisted language learning (CALL)	10
The construction of legitimacy: a critical discourse analysis of the rhetoric of educational technology in post-pandemic higher education	10
The forgotten African American innovators of educational technology: stories of education, technology, and civil rights	10
Subterfuge: a parental strategy for mediating young children’s digital media practices in Azerbaijan	10
Developing teacher understandings of digital play in the early years of schooling	10
Reimagining learning futures through lenses of speculative fiction, scholarly analysis, and public dialogue	10
Discursive construction of online teacher identity and legitimacy in English language teaching	9
Imagining the future of artificial intelligence in education: a review of social science fiction	9
Decoding school marketisation – exploring computational analytics in large-scale policy data	9
Who cares about learning design? Near future superheroes and villains of an educational ethics of care	9
Tell me a story: a framework for critically investigating AI language models	9
When platformisation meets schooling: exploring teachers, students and parents’ experiences of digital platform use	9