OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education is 10. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Artificial intelligence in higher education: the state of the field	186
Students’ voices on generative AI: perceptions, benefits, and challenges in higher education	183
A comprehensive AI policy education framework for university teaching and learning	181
The impact of artificial intelligence on learner–instructor interaction in online learning	161
The effects of gender, educational level, and personality on online learning outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic	144
Examining the key influencing factors on college students’ higher-order thinking skills in the smart classroom environment	122
Teachers’ digital competencies in higher education: a systematic literature review	121
An examination of teachers’ strategies to foster student engagement in blended learning in higher education	119
Emergency remote teaching in higher education: mapping the first global online semester	113
Transitioning to the “new normal” of learning in unpredictable times: pedagogical practices and learning performance in fully online flipped classrooms	98
Adaptive e-learning environment based on learning styles and its impact on development students' engagement	96
Big data in education: a state of the art, limitations, and future research directions	94
The impact of a virtual teaching assistant (chatbot) on students' learning in Ghanaian higher education	88
Flipped classrooms in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings and future research recommendations	88
Technology acceptance of four digital learning technologies (classroom response system, classroom chat, e-lectures, and mobile virtual reality) after three months’ usage	86
Past, present, and future of smart learning: a topic-based bibliometric analysis	82
Digital higher education: a divider or bridge builder? Leadership perspectives on edtech in a COVID-19 reality	81
Role of AI chatbots in education: systematic literature review	70
The disconnected: COVID-19 and disparities in access to quality broadband for higher education students	70
Integration of artificial intelligence performance prediction and learning analytics to improve student learning in online engineering course	68
Chatbot to improve learning punctuation in Spanish and to enhance open and flexible learning environments	65
Learning analytics dashboard: a tool for providing actionable insights to learners	65
Gamification and active learning in higher education: is it possible to match digital society, academia and students' interests?	64
Artificial intelligence applications in Latin American higher education: a systematic review	64
Exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence and robots on higher education through literature-based design fictions	62

Shaping the future learning environments with smart elements: challenges and opportunities	58
Educational chatbots for project-based learning: investigating learning outcomes for a team-based design course	58
Integrating students’ perspectives about online learning: a hierarchy of factors	53
Benefits of immersive collaborative learning in CAVE-based virtual reality	52
AI-generated feedback on writing: insights into efficacy and ENL student preference	49
Acceptance of artificial intelligence among pre-service teachers: a multigroup analysis	45
The university students’ self-regulated effort, flexibility and satisfaction in distance education	43
Impact of students evaluation of teaching: a text analysis of the teachers qualities by gender	42
Learning analytics in higher education: a preponderance of analytics but very little learning?	39
Understanding students’ behavior in online social networks: a systematic literature review	37
A meta systematic review of artificial intelligence in higher education: a call for increased ethics, collaboration, and rigour	37
Multi-level analyses of distance education capacity, faculty members’ adaptation, and indicators of student satisfaction in higher education during COVID-19 pandemic	36
Gamification suffers from the novelty effect but benefits from the familiarization effect: Findings from a longitudinal study	36
Predicting students at risk of academic failure using ensemble model during pandemic in a distance learning system	35
Effects of using mobile instant messaging on student behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement: a quasi-experimental study	35
Why do open and distance education students drop out? Views from various stakeholders	34
The effectiveness of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) on intercultural competence development in higher education	34
Instructional changes instigated by university faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic: the effect of individual, course and institutional factors	34
What are the key themes associated with the positive learning experience in MOOCs? An empirical investigation of learners’ ratings and reviews	34
Negotiating growth of online education in higher education	33
Use of live chat in higher education to support self-regulated help seeking behaviours: a comparison of online and blended learner perspectives	33
Learning with ChatGPT 3.5 as a more knowledgeable other: an autoethnographic study	33
Online engagement and performance on formative assessments mediate the relationship between attendance and course performance	31
The effect of two educational technology tools on student engagement in Chinese EFL courses	31
An analysis of internal and external feedback in self-regulated learning activities mediated by self-regulated learning tools and open learner models	31
Developing an online learner satisfaction framework in higher education through a systematic review of research	31
Development and validation of students’ digital competence scale (SDiCoS)	31
Supporting the development of critical data literacies in higher education: building blocks for fair data cultures in society	30
Augmented reality in architecture and construction education: state of the field and opportunities	30
Shifting online during COVID-19: A systematic review of teaching and learning strategies and their outcomes	30
Explaining persistence in online courses in higher education: a difference-in-differences analysis	29
Exploring critical factors of the perceived usefulness of a learning analytics dashboard for distance university students	29
Supporting students’ self-regulated learning in online learning using artificial intelligence applications	29
Exploring the effect of three scaffoldings on the collaborative problem-solving processes in China’s higher education	28
University students experience the COVID-19 induced shift to remote instruction	27
Impact of remote experimentation, interactivity and platform effectiveness on laboratory learning outcomes	25
An associational study: preschool teachers’ acceptance and self-efficacy towards Educational Robotics in a pre-service teacher training program	24
Loneliness in online students with disabilities: qualitative investigation for experience, understanding and solutions	24
Faculty as reflective practitioners in emergency online teaching: an autoethnography	24
Engagement in cloud-supported collaborative learning and student knowledge construction: a modeling study	24
Investigating feedback implemented by instructors to support online competency-based learning (CBL): a multiple case study	24
The influence of digital competences, self-organization, and independent learning abilities on students’ acceptance of digital learning	23
Not quite eye to A.I.: student and teacher perspectives on the use of generative artificial intelligence in the writing process	23
Persistence and time challenges in an open online university: a case study of the experiences of first-year learners	22
The role of e-engagement and flow on the continuance with a learning management system in a blended learning environment	22
Experiences in the use of an adaptive intelligent system to enhance online learners' performance: a case study in Economics and Business courses	22
An early warning system to identify and intervene online dropout learners	22
The use of technology in higher education teaching by academics during the COVID-19 emergency remote teaching period: a systematic review	21
The identity changes in online learning and teaching: instructors, learners, and learning management systems	21
Attitudes and awareness of regional Pacific Island students towards e-learning	20

Exploring predictors of instructional resilience during emergency remote teaching in higher education	20
A micro-credentialing methodology for improved recognition of HE employability skills	20
Embracing the future of Artificial Intelligence in the classroom: the relevance of AI literacy, prompt engineering, and critical thinking in modern education	20
Micro-credentials in leveraging emergency remote teaching: the relationship between novice users’ insights and identity in Malaysia	20
Incorporating fantasy into gamification promotes student learning and quality of online interaction	19
Learning and teaching sustainable business in the digital era: a connectivism theory approach	19
Identifying and characterizing students suspected of academic dishonesty in SPOCs for credit through learning analytics	19
A systematic review of the opportunities and challenges of micro-credentials for multiple stakeholders: learners, employers, higher education institutions and government	18
How learner engagement impacts non-formal online learning outcomes through value co-creation: an empirical analysis	17
Toward just and equitable micro-credentials: an Australian perspective	17
A heutagogical approach for the assessment of Internet Communication Technology (ICT) assignments in higher education	17
VR as a choice: what drives learners’ technology acceptance?	17
The influence of teacher annotations on student learning engagement and video watching behaviors	17
VR-based health and safety training in various high-risk engineering industries: a literature review	16
A checklist to guide the planning, designing, implementation, and evaluation of learning analytics dashboards	15
Platform-independent and curriculum-oriented intelligent assistant for higher education	15
Research and application of online SPOC teaching mode in analog circuit course	15
Extending Technology Acceptance Model to higher-education students’ use of digital academic reading tools on computers	15
Generative AI and the future of higher education: a threat to academic integrity or reformation? Evidence from multicultural perspectives	15
The digital competence of academics in higher education: is the glass half empty or half full?	15
Learning effectiveness of a flexible learning study programme in a blended learning design: why are some courses more effective than others?	15
An eye tracking study: positive emotional interface design facilitates learning outcomes in multimedia learning?	15
Learning analytics to develop future competences in higher education: a case study	15
Student-centered case-based teaching and online–offline case discussion in postgraduate courses of computer science	15
Perceptions and factors affecting the adoption of digital games for engineering education: a mixed-method research	14
Flipped classroom in higher education: a systematic literature review and research challenges	14
Digital studying in times of COVID-19: teacher- and student-related aspects of learning success in german higher education	14
Learning from success stories when using eLearning and bLearning modalities in higher education: a meta-analysis and lessons towards digital educational transformation	14
What do they TEL(L)? A systematic analysis of master programs in technology-enhanced learning	14
Virtual Exchange in Global Health: an innovative educational approach to foster socially responsible overseas collaboration	14
Impact of combining human and analytics feedback on students’ engagement with, and performance in, reflective writing tasks	14
Enhancing data pipelines for forecasting student performance: integrating feature selection with cross-validation	14
Factors affecting cyberloafing in computer laboratory teaching settings	13
CAVE-based immersive learning in undergraduate courses: examining the effect of group size and time of application	13
A quasi-qualitative analysis of flipped classroom implementation in an engineering course: from theory to practice	13
Unfolding the learning behaviour patterns of MOOC learners with different levels of achievement	13
Developing a gamified artificial intelligence educational robot to promote learning effectiveness and behavior in laboratory safety courses for undergraduate students	12
Students’ perceptions of using ChatGPT in a physics class as a virtual tutor	12
Multimodal learning analytics of collaborative patterns during pair programming in higher education	12
Testing the success of real-time online delivery channel adopted by higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates during the Covid-19 pandemic	12
How does technology challenge teacher education?	12
Does a pedagogical agent’s gesture frequency assist advanced foreign language users with learning declarative knowledge?	11
University students’ intentions to learn artificial intelligence: the roles of supportive environments and expectancy–value beliefs	11
Flipping the flipped class: using online collaboration to enhance EFL students’ oral learning skills	11
Focused self-explanation prompts and segmenting foster pre-service teachers’ professional vision - but only during training!	11
Is it harmful or helpful? Examining the causes and consequences of generative AI usage among university students	11
Exploring the relationship between computational thinking and learning satisfaction for non-STEM college students	11
Exploring the roles of information search and information evaluation literacy and pre-service teachers’ ICT self-efficacy in teaching	11
Exploring the applicability of virtual reality- enhanced education on extrovert and introvert EFL learners’ paragraph writing	11
Video-based simulations in teacher education: the role of learner characteristics as capacities for positive learning experiences and high performance	11
Development of a course based on BEAM robots to enhance STEM learning in electrical, electronic, and mechanical domains	11
Patterns of student collaborative learning in blended course designs based on their learning orientations: a student approaches to learning perspective	11
Curriculum design for social, cognitive and emotional engagement in Knowledge Building	11
Digital literacies, social media, and undergraduate learning: what do students think they need to know?	10
Are open educational resources (OER) and practices (OEP) effective in improving learning achievement? A meta-analysis and research synthesis	10
Integrating chatbots in education: insights from the Chatbot-Human Interaction Satisfaction Model (CHISM)	10
Generation gap, learning from the experience of compulsory remote architectural design studio	10
Towards modeling of human skilling for electrical circuitry using augmented reality applications	10
Empowering ChatGPT with guidance mechanism in blended learning: effect of self-regulated learning, higher-order thinking skills, and knowledge construction	10
Co-learner presence and praise alters the effects of learner-generated explanation on learning from video lectures	10
Reframing data ethics in research methods education: a pathway to critical data literacy	10