OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of gender, educational level, and personality on online learning outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic	124
Students’ perceptions on distance education: A multinational study	123
Development of a new model on utilizing online learning platforms to improve students’ academic achievements and satisfaction	105
Emergency remote teaching in higher education: mapping the first global online semester	103
Examining the key influencing factors on college students’ higher-order thinking skills in the smart classroom environment	94
Transitioning to the “new normal” of learning in unpredictable times: pedagogical practices and learning performance in fully online flipped classrooms	85
An examination of teachers’ strategies to foster student engagement in blended learning in higher education	85
Big data in education: a state of the art, limitations, and future research directions	81
A balancing act: a window into online student engagement experiences	80
University teachers' perception of barriers to the use of digital technologies: the importance of the academic discipline	80
The impact of artificial intelligence on learner–instructor interaction in online learning	79
Teachers’ digital competencies in higher education: a systematic literature review	77
Can artificial intelligence transform higher education?	71
Flipped classrooms in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings and future research recommendations	65
Past, present, and future of smart learning: a topic-based bibliometric analysis	62
Prerequisites for artificial intelligence in further education: identification of drivers, barriers, and business models of educational technology companies	62
Technology acceptance of four digital learning technologies (classroom response system, classroom chat, e-lectures, and mobile virtual reality) after three months’ usage	61
Digital higher education: a divider or bridge builder? Leadership perspectives on edtech in a COVID-19 reality	60
Digital divide among higher education faculty	59
Adaptive e-learning environment based on learning styles and its impact on development students' engagement	58
The disconnected: COVID-19 and disparities in access to quality broadband for higher education students	55
Artificial intelligence in higher education: the state of the field	55
Gamification and active learning in higher education: is it possible to match digital society, academia and students' interests?	49
The impact of a virtual teaching assistant (chatbot) on students' learning in Ghanaian higher education	47
Simulation-based education involving online and on-campus models in different European universities	47

Learning analytics dashboard: a tool for providing actionable insights to learners	47
Integrating students’ perspectives about online learning: a hierarchy of factors	47
Chatbot to improve learning punctuation in Spanish and to enhance open and flexible learning environments	46
Testing of support tools for plagiarism detection	46
Precision education with statistical learning and deep learning: a case study in Taiwan	46
LMS-enabled blended learning utilization in distance tertiary education: establishing the relationships among facilitating conditions, voluntariness of use and use behaviour	45
The benefits and caveats of using clickstream data to understand student self-regulatory behaviors: opening the black box of learning processes	45
A comprehensive AI policy education framework for university teaching and learning	44
Students’ voices on generative AI: perceptions, benefits, and challenges in higher education	44
Exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence and robots on higher education through literature-based design fictions	43
Recommender systems to support learners’ Agency in a Learning Context: a systematic review	42
Educational chatbots for project-based learning: investigating learning outcomes for a team-based design course	41
Improving online video lectures: learning challenges created by media	41
Does sociability quality of web-based collaborative learning information system influence students’ satisfaction and system usage?	41
Teaching analytics, value and tools for teacher data literacy: a systematic and tripartite approach	40
Benefits of immersive collaborative learning in CAVE-based virtual reality	39
Impact of students evaluation of teaching: a text analysis of the teachers qualities by gender	38
Artificial intelligence applications in Latin American higher education: a systematic review	35
Exploring the key influencing factors on college students’ computational thinking skills through flipped-classroom instruction	35
Challenges and contexts in establishing adaptive learning in higher education: findings from a Delphi study	35
Shaping the future learning environments with smart elements: challenges and opportunities	34
Multi-level analyses of distance education capacity, faculty members’ adaptation, and indicators of student satisfaction in higher education during COVID-19 pandemic	32
Understanding students’ behavior in online social networks: a systematic literature review	30
Instructional changes instigated by university faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic: the effect of individual, course and institutional factors	30
Learning analytics in higher education: a preponderance of analytics but very little learning?	30
Virtual experimental platforms in chemistry laboratory education and its impact on experimental self-efficacy	29
The university students’ self-regulated effort, flexibility and satisfaction in distance education	27
Use of live chat in higher education to support self-regulated help seeking behaviours: a comparison of online and blended learner perspectives	27
What are the key themes associated with the positive learning experience in MOOCs? An empirical investigation of learners’ ratings and reviews	26
Negotiating growth of online education in higher education	25
Bringing technology to the mature classroom: age differences in use and attitudes	25
An analysis of internal and external feedback in self-regulated learning activities mediated by self-regulated learning tools and open learner models	24
Integration of artificial intelligence performance prediction and learning analytics to improve student learning in online engineering course	24
A qualitative exploration of teachers’ perspective on smartphones usage in higher education in developing countries	24
Supporting the development of critical data literacies in higher education: building blocks for fair data cultures in society	24
Exploring critical factors of the perceived usefulness of a learning analytics dashboard for distance university students	24
Online engagement and performance on formative assessments mediate the relationship between attendance and course performance	23
Technology-supported management education: a systematic review of antecedents of learning effectiveness	23
Effects of using mobile instant messaging on student behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement: a quasi-experimental study	23
Explaining persistence in online courses in higher education: a difference-in-differences analysis	22
Gamification suffers from the novelty effect but benefits from the familiarization effect: Findings from a longitudinal study	22
Exploring the effect of three scaffoldings on the collaborative problem-solving processes in China’s higher education	22
Teaching undergraduate mathematics fully online: a review from the perspective of communities of practice	22
Evaluating the effectiveness of a preservice teacher technology training module incorporating SQD strategies	22
Predicting students at risk of academic failure using ensemble model during pandemic in a distance learning system	21
University students experience the COVID-19 induced shift to remote instruction	21
Faculty as reflective practitioners in emergency online teaching: an autoethnography	21
The effect of two educational technology tools on student engagement in Chinese EFL courses	20
Investigating feedback implemented by instructors to support online competency-based learning (CBL): a multiple case study	19
Development and validation of students’ digital competence scale (SDiCoS)	19

Why do open and distance education students drop out? Views from various stakeholders	19
Augmented reality in architecture and construction education: state of the field and opportunities	19
The identity changes in online learning and teaching: instructors, learners, and learning management systems	19
The implementation of Small Private Online Courses (SPOC) as a new approach to education	19
Engagement in cloud-supported collaborative learning and student knowledge construction: a modeling study	19
Can emotional design really evoke emotion in multimedia learning?	19
Attitudes and awareness of regional Pacific Island students towards e-learning	18
An associational study: preschool teachers’ acceptance and self-efficacy towards Educational Robotics in a pre-service teacher training program	17
Interaction in computer supported collaborative learning: an analysis of the implementation phase	17
Identifying and characterizing students suspected of academic dishonesty in SPOCs for credit through learning analytics	17
Impact of remote experimentation, interactivity and platform effectiveness on laboratory learning outcomes	17
Developing an online learner satisfaction framework in higher education through a systematic review of research	16
Loneliness in online students with disabilities: qualitative investigation for experience, understanding and solutions	16
Exploring predictors of instructional resilience during emergency remote teaching in higher education	16
Shifting online during COVID-19: A systematic review of teaching and learning strategies and their outcomes	16
The effectiveness of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) on intercultural competence development in higher education	16
Does mobile instant messaging facilitate social presence in online communication? A two-stage study of higher education students	15
Gamifying learning for learners	15
Impact of using learning analytics in asynchronous online discussions in higher education	15
Persistence and time challenges in an open online university: a case study of the experiences of first-year learners	15
The influence of teacher annotations on student learning engagement and video watching behaviors	15
The influence of digital competences, self-organization, and independent learning abilities on students’ acceptance of digital learning	15
Experiences in the use of an adaptive intelligent system to enhance online learners' performance: a case study in Economics and Business courses	14
Incorporating fantasy into gamification promotes student learning and quality of online interaction	13
The role of e-engagement and flow on the continuance with a learning management system in a blended learning environment	13
VR as a choice: what drives learners’ technology acceptance?	13
Topic tracking model for analyzing student-generated posts in SPOC discussion forums	13
Learning with ChatGPT 3.5 as a more knowledgeable other: an autoethnographic study	12
VR-based health and safety training in various high-risk engineering industries: a literature review	12
Enhancing data pipelines for forecasting student performance: integrating feature selection with cross-validation	12
A quasi-qualitative analysis of flipped classroom implementation in an engineering course: from theory to practice	12
Technological innovation in architecture and engineering education - an investigation on three generations from Turkey	12
Research and application of online SPOC teaching mode in analog circuit course	12
Factors affecting cyberloafing in computer laboratory teaching settings	12
A micro-credentialing methodology for improved recognition of HE employability skills	12
Learning and teaching sustainable business in the digital era: a connectivism theory approach	11
How stakeholders’ data literacy contributes to student success in higher education: a goal-oriented analysis	11
Virtual Exchange in Global Health: an innovative educational approach to foster socially responsible overseas collaboration	11
A heutagogical approach for the assessment of Internet Communication Technology (ICT) assignments in higher education	11
Toward just and equitable micro-credentials: an Australian perspective	11
An eye tracking study: positive emotional interface design facilitates learning outcomes in multimedia learning?	11
CAVE-based immersive learning in undergraduate courses: examining the effect of group size and time of application	11
Towards Understanding Online Question & Answer Interactions and their effects on student performance in large-scale STEM classes	11
Testing the success of real-time online delivery channel adopted by higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates during the Covid-19 pandemic	10
The smartphone in self-regulated learning and student success: clarifying relationships and testing an intervention	10
Development of a course based on BEAM robots to enhance STEM learning in electrical, electronic, and mechanical domains	10
An early warning system to identify and intervene online dropout learners	10
Turnitin peer feedback: controversial vs. non-controversial essays	9
Acceptance of artificial intelligence among pre-service teachers: a multigroup analysis	9
Flipping the flipped class: using online collaboration to enhance EFL students’ oral learning skills	9
A systematic review of the opportunities and challenges of micro-credentials for multiple stakeholders: learners, employers, higher education institutions and government	9
The use of technology in higher education teaching by academics during the COVID-19 emergency remote teaching period: a systematic review	9
How learner engagement impacts non-formal online learning outcomes through value co-creation: an empirical analysis	9
Paraphrase type identification for plagiarism detection using contexts and word embeddings	9
Learning analytics to develop future competences in higher education: a case study	9
What do they TEL(L)? A systematic analysis of master programs in technology-enhanced learning	9
Platform-independent and curriculum-oriented intelligent assistant for higher education	9
Micro-credentials in leveraging emergency remote teaching: the relationship between novice users’ insights and identity in Malaysia	9