OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education is 12. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The good, bad, and ugly of comment prompts: Effects on length and helpfulness of peer feedback	366
“Scarlet Cloak and the Forest Adventure”: a preliminary study of the impact of AI on commonly used writing tools	338
Risk management strategy for generative AI in computing education: how to handle the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats?	322
Use of live chat in higher education to support self-regulated help seeking behaviours: a comparison of online and blended learner perspectives	223
Flipped learning in the context of postgraduate public health higher education: a qualitative study involving students and their tutors	163
Effects of using mobile instant messaging on student behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement: a quasi-experimental study	162
ePortfolio to promote networked learning: an experience in the Latin American context	159
Exploring the relationships between interaction measures and learning outcomes through social network analysis: the mediating role of social presence	153
Extending Technology Acceptance Model to higher-education students’ use of digital academic reading tools on computers	147
Video-based simulations in teacher education: the role of learner characteristics as capacities for positive learning experiences and high performance	129
Dropout prediction and decision feedback supported by multi temporal sequences of learning behavior in MOOCs	123
Are flipped classrooms less stressful and more successful? An experimental study on college students	107
Students’ voices on generative AI: perceptions, benefits, and challenges in higher education	98
A meta systematic review of artificial intelligence in higher education: a call for increased ethics, collaboration, and rigour	91
Examining students’ course trajectories using data mining and visualization approaches	88
From concerns to benefits: a comprehensive study of ChatGPT usage in education	84
Desirable and realistic futures of the university: a mixed-methods study with teachers in Denmark	84
Leveraging the Louvain algorithm for enhanced group formation and collaboration in online learning environments	83
What rationale would work? Unfolding the role of learners’ attitudes and motivation in predicting learning engagement and perceived learning outcomes in MOOCs	77
Social anxiety in digital learning environments: an international perspective and call to action	77
Brain-based CALL in flipped higher education GE courses held through LMS: Boosting vocabulary learning and reading comprehension	77
Does a pedagogical agent’s gesture frequency assist advanced foreign language users with learning declarative knowledge?	76
Network analysis of gratitude messages in the learning community	74
Reframing data ethics in research methods education: a pathway to critical data literacy	72
Attending lectures in person, hybrid or online—how do students choose, and what about the outcome?	67

First-year students AI-competence as a predictor for intended and de facto use of AI-tools for supporting learning processes in higher education	65
Are open educational resources (OER) and practices (OEP) effective in improving learning achievement? A meta-analysis and research synthesis	59
Diogene-CT: tools and methodologies for teaching and learning coding	54
Flipping an on-campus general English course: a focus on technology complexity of instruction and learners’ levels of impulsivity	53
Towards modeling of human skilling for electrical circuitry using augmented reality applications	51
Exploring predictors of instructional resilience during emergency remote teaching in higher education	50
Digital higher education: a divider or bridge builder? Leadership perspectives on edtech in a COVID-19 reality	46
A novel taxonomy of student-generated video styles	46
“Connecting concepts helps put main ideas together”: cognitive load and usability in learning biology with an AI-enriched textbook	43
A snapshot in time: the next new normal and micro-credentials	42
An examination of teachers’ strategies to foster student engagement in blended learning in higher education	42
Rethinking assessment strategies to improve authentic representations of learning: using blogs as a creative assessment alternative to develop professional skills	40
Defining and measuring completion and assessment biases with respect to English language and development status: not all MOOCs are equal	39
What do they TEL(L)? A systematic analysis of master programs in technology-enhanced learning	39
Enhancing data pipelines for forecasting student performance: integrating feature selection with cross-validation	39
Flipped classrooms in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings and future research recommendations	39
Impact of remote experimentation, interactivity and platform effectiveness on laboratory learning outcomes	39
Teachers’ digital competencies in higher education: a systematic literature review	37
Effects of captions, transcripts and reminders on learning and perceptions of lecture capture	37
Adaptive e-learning environment based on learning styles and its impact on development students' engagement	37
Toward just and equitable micro-credentials: an Australian perspective	36
Exploring critical factors of the perceived usefulness of a learning analytics dashboard for distance university students	35
Constructive alignment in a graduate-level project management course: an innovative framework using large language models	34
Beyond emergency remote teaching: did the pandemic lead to lasting change in university courses?	33
Speculative futures for higher education	33
Unveiling the dynamics and impact of emotional presence in collaborative learning	32
Towards teaching-sensitive technology: a hermeneutic analysis of higher education teaching	32
The International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education: content and authorship analysis 2010–2024	32
Flipped classroom in higher education: a systematic literature review and research challenges	31
Mining and crafting a game to teach research methodology	30
Learning analytics dashboard: a tool for providing actionable insights to learners	30
How does technology challenge teacher education?	29
The use of technology in higher education teaching by academics during the COVID-19 emergency remote teaching period: a systematic review	29
Co-learner presence and praise alters the effects of learner-generated explanation on learning from video lectures	29
Shifting online during COVID-19: A systematic review of teaching and learning strategies and their outcomes	29
Multimodal learning analytics of collaborative patterns during pair programming in higher education	28
Developing an online learner satisfaction framework in higher education through a systematic review of research	28
Going online? Does transferring to online university increase the likelihood of graduation among students from lower social background?	27
Learning effectiveness of a flexible learning study programme in a blended learning design: why are some courses more effective than others?	27
Interactive effects of scaffolding digital game-based learning and cognitive style on adult learners’ emotion, cognitive load and learning performance	27
The identity changes in online learning and teaching: instructors, learners, and learning management systems	26
The role of e-engagement and flow on the continuance with a learning management system in a blended learning environment	26
The effect of two educational technology tools on student engagement in Chinese EFL courses	26
Student-centered case-based teaching and online–offline case discussion in postgraduate courses of computer science	26
A comprehensive AI policy education framework for university teaching and learning	26
AI ethics as a complex and multifaceted challenge: decoding educators’ AI ethics alignment through the lens of activity theory	25
From clicks to credits: examining the influence of online engagement and internet addiction on academic performance in Chinese universities	25
Correction: What do we want to know about MOOCs? Results from a machine learning approach to a systematic literature mapping review	24
Multi-level analyses of distance education capacity, faculty members’ adaptation, and indicators of student satisfaction in higher education during COVID-19 pandemic	24
Beyond learning with cold machine: interpersonal communication skills as anthropomorphic cue of AI instructor	24

How role-taking in a group-work setting affects the relationship between the amount of collaboration and germane cognitive load	24
Exploring language needs of college transfer students with learning analytics: towards a more equitable experience	24
Exploring the effect of three scaffoldings on the collaborative problem-solving processes in China’s higher education	23
Gamification and active learning in higher education: is it possible to match digital society, academia and students' interests?	23
A micro-credentialing methodology for improved recognition of HE employability skills	22
Educational chatbots for project-based learning: investigating learning outcomes for a team-based design course	22
CAVE-based immersive learning in undergraduate courses: examining the effect of group size and time of application	22
The use of system dynamics for energy and environmental education	21
Micro-credentials in leveraging emergency remote teaching: the relationship between novice users’ insights and identity in Malaysia	20
Unfolding the learning behaviour patterns of MOOC learners with different levels of achievement	20
Explaining persistence in online courses in higher education: a difference-in-differences analysis	20
Learning analytics in higher education: a preponderance of analytics but very little learning?	20
Lessons learnt during COVID-19: making sense of Australian and Swedish university lecturers’ experience	19
Social networking sites use and college students’ academic performance: testing for an inverted U-shaped relationship using automated mobile app usage data	19
The digital competence of academics in higher education: is the glass half empty or half full?	19
Development and validation of students’ digital competence scale (SDiCoS)	19
Assessing digital competence and its relationship with the socioeconomic level of Chilean university students	19
Learning analytics to develop future competences in higher education: a case study	18
Investigating effects of teachers in flipped classroom: a randomized controlled trial study of classroom level heterogeneity	17
Supporting students’ self-regulated learning in online learning using artificial intelligence applications	17
Online professional development across institutions and borders	17
An early warning system to identify and intervene online dropout learners	17
Barriers and beliefs: a comparative case study of how university educators understand the datafication of higher education systems	17
A systematic review of the opportunities and challenges of micro-credentials for multiple stakeholders: learners, employers, higher education institutions and government	17
Face-to-face vs. blended learning in higher education: a quantitative analysis of biological science student outcomes	16
Unpacking student engagement in higher education learning analytics: a systematic review	16
EdTechnica: a vision of an educational publishing community of practice that is accessible, flexible, and just	16
Not quite eye to A.I.: student and teacher perspectives on the use of generative artificial intelligence in the writing process	16
Insights from a randomized controlled trial of flipped classroom on academic achievement: the challenge of student resistance	15
The impact of a virtual teaching assistant (chatbot) on students' learning in Ghanaian higher education	15
VR-based health and safety training in various high-risk engineering industries: a literature review	15
How university teachers navigate social networking sites in a fully online space: provisional views from a developing nation	15
Augmented reality in architecture and construction education: state of the field and opportunities	15
Unveiling emotion dynamics in problem-solving: a comprehensive analysis with an intelligent tutoring system using facial expressions and electrodermal activities	15
Automatic feedback and assessment of team-coding assignments in a DevOps context	15
An integrated approach for knowledge extraction and analysis in collaborative knowledge construction	15
Empowering students’ agentive engagement through formative assessment in online learning environment	15
Interactions with educational chatbots: the impact of induced emotions and students’ learning motivation	15
Generation gap, learning from the experience of compulsory remote architectural design studio	15
Unraveling temporally entangled multimodal interactions: investigating verbal and nonverbal contributions to collaborative construction of embodied math knowledge	14
Is it harmful or helpful? Examining the causes and consequences of generative AI usage among university students	14
Understanding college students’ test anxiety in asynchronous online courses: the mediating role of emotional engagement	14
Correction: Unveiling the dynamics and impact of emotional presence in collaborative learning	14
Feedback sources in essay writing: peer-generated or AI-generated feedback?	14
Correction to: Framework for automatically suggesting remedial actions to help students at risk based on explainable ML and rulebased models	14
Using learning analytics to explore peer learning patterns in asynchronous gamified environments	14
Off-task social media multitasking during class: determining factors and mediating mechanism	13
Beyond content delivery: harnessing emotional intelligence for community building in fully online digital spaces	13
Correction: A systematic review of the opportunities and challenges of micro-credentials for multiple stakeholders: learners, employers, higher education institutions and government	13
Paraphrase type identification for plagiarism detection using contexts and word embeddings	13
The disconnected: COVID-19 and disparities in access to quality broadband for higher education students	13
Social comparison feedback in online teacher training and its impact on asynchronous collaboration	13
Faculty as reflective practitioners in emergency online teaching: an autoethnography	12
A heutagogical approach for the assessment of Internet Communication Technology (ICT) assignments in higher education	12
Patterns of student collaborative learning in blended course designs based on their learning orientations: a student approaches to learning perspective	12
Repeat individualized assessment using isomorphic questions: a novel approach to increase peer discussion and learning	12