OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education is 22. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Students’ perceptions on distance education: A multinational study	128
The effects of gender, educational level, and personality on online learning outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic	126
Development of a new model on utilizing online learning platforms to improve students’ academic achievements and satisfaction	110
Emergency remote teaching in higher education: mapping the first global online semester	104
Examining the key influencing factors on college students’ higher-order thinking skills in the smart classroom environment	96
The impact of artificial intelligence on learner–instructor interaction in online learning	90
An examination of teachers’ strategies to foster student engagement in blended learning in higher education	88
Transitioning to the “new normal” of learning in unpredictable times: pedagogical practices and learning performance in fully online flipped classrooms	85
Teachers’ digital competencies in higher education: a systematic literature review	83
Big data in education: a state of the art, limitations, and future research directions	82
A balancing act: a window into online student engagement experiences	81
Can artificial intelligence transform higher education?	73
Past, present, and future of smart learning: a topic-based bibliometric analysis	71
Flipped classrooms in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings and future research recommendations	69
Artificial intelligence in higher education: the state of the field	68
Digital divide among higher education faculty	64
Technology acceptance of four digital learning technologies (classroom response system, classroom chat, e-lectures, and mobile virtual reality) after three months’ usage	64
Prerequisites for artificial intelligence in further education: identification of drivers, barriers, and business models of educational technology companies	63
Digital higher education: a divider or bridge builder? Leadership perspectives on edtech in a COVID-19 reality	63
Adaptive e-learning environment based on learning styles and its impact on development students' engagement	62
The disconnected: COVID-19 and disparities in access to quality broadband for higher education students	56
A comprehensive AI policy education framework for university teaching and learning	54
Students’ voices on generative AI: perceptions, benefits, and challenges in higher education	54
The impact of a virtual teaching assistant (chatbot) on students' learning in Ghanaian higher education	50
Gamification and active learning in higher education: is it possible to match digital society, academia and students' interests?	50

Precision education with statistical learning and deep learning: a case study in Taiwan	49
Chatbot to improve learning punctuation in Spanish and to enhance open and flexible learning environments	48
Integrating students’ perspectives about online learning: a hierarchy of factors	48
The benefits and caveats of using clickstream data to understand student self-regulatory behaviors: opening the black box of learning processes	47
Testing of support tools for plagiarism detection	47
Learning analytics dashboard: a tool for providing actionable insights to learners	47
Does sociability quality of web-based collaborative learning information system influence students’ satisfaction and system usage?	45
Exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence and robots on higher education through literature-based design fictions	44
Improving online video lectures: learning challenges created by media	44
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	42
Impact of students evaluation of teaching: a text analysis of the teachers qualities by gender	40
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
Exploring the key influencing factors on college students’ computational thinking skills through flipped-classroom instruction	38
Artificial intelligence applications in Latin American higher education: a systematic review	37
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	35
Multi-level analyses of distance education capacity, faculty members’ adaptation, and indicators of student satisfaction in higher education during COVID-19 pandemic	33
Understanding students’ behavior in online social networks: a systematic literature review	31
Learning analytics in higher education: a preponderance of analytics but very little learning?	31
Instructional changes instigated by university faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic: the effect of individual, course and institutional factors	30
The university students’ self-regulated effort, flexibility and satisfaction in distance education	30
Virtual experimental platforms in chemistry laboratory education and its impact on experimental self-efficacy	29
What are the key themes associated with the positive learning experience in MOOCs? An empirical investigation of learners’ ratings and reviews	29
Integration of artificial intelligence performance prediction and learning analytics to improve student learning in online engineering course	28
Use of live chat in higher education to support self-regulated help seeking behaviours: a comparison of online and blended learner perspectives	28
Supporting the development of critical data literacies in higher education: building blocks for fair data cultures in society	26
An analysis of internal and external feedback in self-regulated learning activities mediated by self-regulated learning tools and open learner models	26
Effects of using mobile instant messaging on student behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement: a quasi-experimental study	26
Negotiating growth of online education in higher education	25
Technology-supported management education: a systematic review of antecedents of learning effectiveness	25
Exploring critical factors of the perceived usefulness of a learning analytics dashboard for distance university students	25
A qualitative exploration of teachers’ perspective on smartphones usage in higher education in developing countries	24
Explaining persistence in online courses in higher education: a difference-in-differences analysis	24
Why do open and distance education students drop out? Views from various stakeholders	23
Teaching undergraduate mathematics fully online: a review from the perspective of communities of practice	23
Gamification suffers from the novelty effect but benefits from the familiarization effect: Findings from a longitudinal study	23
Online engagement and performance on formative assessments mediate the relationship between attendance and course performance	23
Exploring the effect of three scaffoldings on the collaborative problem-solving processes in China’s higher education	22
Evaluating the effectiveness of a preservice teacher technology training module incorporating SQD strategies	22