OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education is 13. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Desirable and realistic futures of the university: a mixed-methods study with teachers in Denmark	513
Risk management strategy for generative AI in computing education: how to handle the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats?	450
“Scarlet Cloak and the Forest Adventure”: a preliminary study of the impact of AI on commonly used writing tools	418
Social anxiety in digital learning environments: an international perspective and call to action	271
What rationale would work? Unfolding the role of learners’ attitudes and motivation in predicting learning engagement and perceived learning outcomes in MOOCs	226
Shifting online during COVID-19: A systematic review of teaching and learning strategies and their outcomes	192
Co-learner presence and praise alters the effects of learner-generated explanation on learning from video lectures	182
Towards teaching-sensitive technology: a hermeneutic analysis of higher education teaching	169
The role of e-engagement and flow on the continuance with a learning management system in a blended learning environment	159
Learning effectiveness of a flexible learning study programme in a blended learning design: why are some courses more effective than others?	138
Flipped classroom in higher education: a systematic literature review and research challenges	131
Understanding college students’ test anxiety in asynchronous online courses: the mediating role of emotional engagement	129
Empowering students’ agentive engagement through formative assessment in online learning environment	120
Educational chatbots for project-based learning: investigating learning outcomes for a team-based design course	115
Interactions with generative AI chatbots: unveiling dialogic dynamics, students’ perceptions, and practical competencies in creative problem-solving	112
Multi-level analyses of distance education capacity, faculty members’ adaptation, and indicators of student satisfaction in higher education during COVID-19 pandemic	107
Insights from a randomized controlled trial of flipped classroom on academic achievement: the challenge of student resistance	103
Assessing and developing college students’ digital learning power: an empirical study based on questionnaire survey in a Chinese university	101
Feedback sources in essay writing: peer-generated or AI-generated feedback?	96
The impact of a virtual teaching assistant (chatbot) on students' learning in Ghanaian higher education	95
An early warning system to identify and intervene online dropout learners	95
(No) Hope for the future? A design agenda for rewidening and rewilding higher education with utopian imagination	91
Prompt engineering in higher education: a systematic review to help inform curricula	90
Experiences in the use of an adaptive intelligent system to enhance online learners' performance: a case study in Economics and Business courses	88
Reflexive pedagogy at the heart of educational digital transformation in Latin American higher education institutions	83

Focused self-explanation prompts and segmenting foster pre-service teachers’ professional vision - but only during training!	80
Exploring the roles of information search and information evaluation literacy and pre-service teachers’ ICT self-efficacy in teaching	68
Chatbot to improve learning punctuation in Spanish and to enhance open and flexible learning environments	63
The university students’ self-regulated effort, flexibility and satisfaction in distance education	62
Learning from success stories when using eLearning and bLearning modalities in higher education: a meta-analysis and lessons towards digital educational transformation	61
A comparative analysis of the skilled use of automated feedback tools through the lens of teacher feedback literacy	58
The more the better? Comparing two SQD-based learning designs in a teacher training on augmented and virtual reality	51
Comparison of generative AI performance on undergraduate and postgraduate written assessments in the biomedical sciences	51
Developing a gamified artificial intelligence educational robot to promote learning effectiveness and behavior in laboratory safety courses for undergraduate students	50
Emergency remote teaching in higher education: mapping the first global online semester	47
Acceptance of artificial intelligence among pre-service teachers: a multigroup analysis	47
Simple techniques to bypass GenAI text detectors: implications for inclusive education	46
A scoping review on how generative artificial intelligence transforms assessment in higher education	46
The Triple-S framework: ensuring scalable, sustainable, and serviceable practices in educational technology	44
ChatGPT awareness, acceptance, and adoption in higher education: the role of trust as a cornerstone	44
Investigating relationships between community of inquiry perceptions and attitudes towards reading circles in Chinese blended EFL learning	43
Examining situational interest and its relationship with self-efficacy in asynchronous and synchronous video lectures	43
Alternatives to the conventional ‘Oxford’ tutorial model: a scoping review	43
Praxeological learning approach in the development of pre-service EFL teachers' TPACK and online information-seeking strategies	42
Predictors of blended learning adoption in higher education institutions in Oman: theory of planned behavior	41
Artificial intelligence in higher education: exploring faculty use, self-efficacy, distinct profiles, and professional development needs	41
Exploring the relationship between computational thinking and learning satisfaction for non-STEM college students	41
Instructional changes instigated by university faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic: the effect of individual, course and institutional factors	40
The good, bad, and ugly of comment prompts: Effects on length and helpfulness of peer feedback	39
Exploring the relationships between interaction measures and learning outcomes through social network analysis: the mediating role of social presence	37
A snapshot in time: the next new normal and micro-credentials	37
Digital higher education: a divider or bridge builder? Leadership perspectives on edtech in a COVID-19 reality	37
Dropout prediction and decision feedback supported by multi temporal sequences of learning behavior in MOOCs	37
Rethinking assessment strategies to improve authentic representations of learning: using blogs as a creative assessment alternative to develop professional skills	36
Unveiling the dynamics and impact of emotional presence in collaborative learning	36
Exploring critical factors of the perceived usefulness of a learning analytics dashboard for distance university students	35
Beyond learning with cold machine: interpersonal communication skills as anthropomorphic cue of AI instructor	35
The identity changes in online learning and teaching: instructors, learners, and learning management systems	34
Interactive effects of scaffolding digital game-based learning and cognitive style on adult learners’ emotion, cognitive load and learning performance	34
The use of technology in higher education teaching by academics during the COVID-19 emergency remote teaching period: a systematic review	34
A novel group cognitive graph approach for improving collaborative problem solving	33
The digital competence of academics in higher education: is the glass half empty or half full?	33
Interactions with educational chatbots: the impact of induced emotions and students’ learning motivation	33
Adaptive e-learning environment based on learning styles and its impact on development students' engagement	33
Paraphrase type identification for plagiarism detection using contexts and word embeddings	32
Learning analytics to develop future competences in higher education: a case study	32
Is it harmful or helpful? Examining the causes and consequences of generative AI usage among university students	32
Unpacking student engagement in higher education learning analytics: a systematic review	32
Compared to what? Effects of social and temporal comparison standards of feedback in an e-learning context	31
Examining the impact of video-feedback and academic engagement on students’ feedback perceptions, feedback reviews, and academic achievement	31
Platform-independent and curriculum-oriented intelligent assistant for higher education	30
Faculty as reflective practitioners in emergency online teaching: an autoethnography	30
How learner engagement impacts non-formal online learning outcomes through value co-creation: an empirical analysis	29
Assessment of AI ethical reflection: the development and validation of the AI ethical reflection scale (AIERS) for university students	29
Correction to: Emergency remote teaching in higher education: mapping the first global online semester	29

Artificial intelligence and communication technologies in academia: faculty perceptions and the adoption of generative AI	28
Development guidelines for individual digital study assistants in higher education	28
A longitudinal study of interplay between student engagement and self-regulation	28
Exploring educational impacts among pre, during and post COVID-19 lockdowns from students with different personality traits	27
An eye tracking study: positive emotional interface design facilitates learning outcomes in multimedia learning?	26
Game-based assessment framework for virtual reality, augmented reality and digital game-based learning	26
A network approach to understanding distance learners’ experience of stress and mental distress whilst studying	25
Understand group interaction and cognitive state in online collaborative problem solving: leveraging brain-to-brain synchrony data	25
Supporting a bidirectional feedback process for self-assessment tasks in a digital learning environment	24
Applying the design-based learning model to foster undergraduates’ web design skills: the role of knowledge integration	24
Higher education futures at the intersection of justice, hope, and educational technology	24
Debugging behaviors of early childhood teacher candidates with or without scaffolding	23
Feminist trends in distance and hybrid higher education: a scoping review	23
University students’ intentions to learn artificial intelligence: the roles of supportive environments and expectancy–value beliefs	22
Generative AI and re-weaving a pedagogical horizon of social possibility	22
Artificial intelligence in higher education: the state of the field	21
Towards modeling of human skilling for electrical circuitry using augmented reality applications	21
Dropout in online higher education: a systematic literature review	21
Role of AI chatbots in education: systematic literature review	21
Gamification suffers from the novelty effect but benefits from the familiarization effect: Findings from a longitudinal study	21
Flipped learning in the context of postgraduate public health higher education: a qualitative study involving students and their tutors	20
A novel taxonomy of student-generated video styles	20
Flipping an on-campus general English course: a focus on technology complexity of instruction and learners’ levels of impulsivity	20
Are flipped classrooms less stressful and more successful? An experimental study on college students	20
Effects of captions, transcripts and reminders on learning and perceptions of lecture capture	19
Going online? Does transferring to online university increase the likelihood of graduation among students from lower social background?	19
The effect of two educational technology tools on student engagement in Chinese EFL courses	19
Defining and measuring completion and assessment biases with respect to English language and development status: not all MOOCs are equal	19
Exploring predictors of instructional resilience during emergency remote teaching in higher education	19
Learning analytics dashboard: a tool for providing actionable insights to learners	19
Exploring language needs of college transfer students with learning analytics: towards a more equitable experience	19
What do they TEL(L)? A systematic analysis of master programs in technology-enhanced learning	18
Teachers’ digital competencies in higher education: a systematic literature review	18
An integrated approach for knowledge extraction and analysis in collaborative knowledge construction	18
Toward just and equitable micro-credentials: an Australian perspective	18
Learning analytics in higher education: a preponderance of analytics but very little learning?	18
Student-centered case-based teaching and online–offline case discussion in postgraduate courses of computer science	18
Face-to-face vs. blended learning in higher education: a quantitative analysis of biological science student outcomes	18
Development and validation of students’ digital competence scale (SDiCoS)	17
Social networking sites use and college students’ academic performance: testing for an inverted U-shaped relationship using automated mobile app usage data	17
Not quite eye to A.I.: student and teacher perspectives on the use of generative artificial intelligence in the writing process	17
A micro-credentialing methodology for improved recognition of HE employability skills	17
Correction: Role of AI chatbots in education: systematic literature review	16
Examining voice and choice in online learning	16
Early-warning prediction of student performance and engagement in open book assessment by reading behavior analysis	15
Leveraging Wikipedia for educational innovation: a higher education course model for enhancing students’ competencies and collaborative knowledge creation	15
Beyond content delivery: harnessing emotional intelligence for community building in fully online digital spaces	15
The influence of digital competences, self-organization, and independent learning abilities on students’ acceptance of digital learning	15
A personal social knowledge network (PSKN) facilitates learners’ wayfinding and its differences in behavior patterns between high and low performers in connectivist learning	15
Investigating the higher education institutions’ guidelines and policies regarding the use of generative AI in teaching, learning, research, and administration	14
Flipping the flipped class: using online collaboration to enhance EFL students’ oral learning skills	14
Impact of combining human and analytics feedback on students’ engagement with, and performance in, reflective writing tasks	13
Loneliness in online students with disabilities: qualitative investigation for experience, understanding and solutions	13
Artificial intelligence applications in Latin American higher education: a systematic review	13
Leveraging computer vision for adaptive learning in STEM education: effect of engagement and self-efficacy	13
The disconnected: COVID-19 and disparities in access to quality broadband for higher education students	13
Extracting topological features to identify at-risk students using machine learning and graph convolutional network models	13