OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education is 24. 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