OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Educational Technology is 17. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Viewing tailored nudges is correlated with improved mastery‐based assessment scores	304
Aligning human values and educational technologies with value‐sensitive design	237
Investigating pedagogical agents' scaffolding of self‐regulated learning in relation to learners' subgoals	231
Development and validation of an instrument to measure online assessment acceptance in higher education	229
Empowering active learning: A social annotation tool for improving student engagement	163
A learning analytics approach towards understanding collaborative inquiry in a problem‐based learning environment	143
Collaborative versus individual problem solving in computational thinking through programming: A meta‐analysis	114
Upgrading financial education by adding Python‐based personalized financial projection: A randomized control trial	110
The impact of an academic counselling learning analytics tool: Evidence from 3 years of use	102
Identifying factors influencing study skills engagement and participation for online learners in higher education during COVID‐19	101
The changing ecologies of international students: Comparing internationalisation at a distance and internationalisation abroad	99
Multimodal learning analytics—In‐between student privacy and encroachment: A systematic review	82
The impact of GenAI‐enabled coding hints on students' programming performance and cognitive load in an SRL‐based Python course	78
Chatbots in tertiary education: Exploring the impact of warm and competent avatars on self‐directed learning	76
Issue Information	71
BJET Editorial Spring 2025: Reporting on AIED research and ethical considerations	69
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For to all those who have, will more be given? Evidence from the adoption of the SELFIE tool for the digital capacity of schools in Spain	66
Large qualitative sample and thematic analysis to redefine student dropout and retention strategy in open online education	63
Remote vocational learning opportunities—A comparative eye‐tracking investigation of educational 2D videos versus 360° videos for car mechanics	63
How do students' self‐regulation skills affect learning satisfaction and continuous intention within desktop‐based virtual reality? A structural equation modelling approach	62
Fostering low‐achieving students' productive disciplinary engagement through knowledge‐building inquiry and reflective assessment	62
BJET Editorial 2024: A call for research rigour	60
COVID‐19 as the tipping point for integrating e‐assessment in higher education practices	54

Interactivity and identity impact learners' sense of agency in virtual reality field trips	53
Beyond hard workout: A multimodal framework for personalised running training with immersive technologies	51
Metacognition meets AI: Empowering reflective writing with large language models	50
Students as digital multimodal text designers: A study of resources, affordances, and experiences	49
Comparing video and virtual reality as tools for fostering interest and self‐efficacy in classroom management: Results of a pre‐registered experiment	48
Lessons learned from the student dropout patterns on COVID‐19 pandemic: An analysis supported by machine learning	48
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Promoting students' learning achievement and self‐efficacy: A mobile chatbot approach for nursing training	46
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The effectiveness of Tier 1 digital interventions for early reading: A meta‐analysis	45
Meeting the challenges of continuing education online courses: Can we promote self‐regulated learning strategies with adaptive support?	43
Infusing educational technologies in the heart of the university—A systematic literature review from an organisational perspective	43
Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling	42
Using virtual classroom simulations in a mathematics methods course to develop pre‐service primary mathematics teachers' noticing skills	42
Teacher support, academic engagement and learning anxiety in online foreign language learning	41
Data privacy on the African continent: Opportunities, challenges and implications for learning analytics	40
What is the impact of a multi‐modal pedagogical conversational AI system on parents' concerns about technology use by young children?	39
Capturing self‐regulated learning processes in virtual reality: Causal sequencing of multimodal data	37
Exploring the impact of VoiceBots on multimedia programming education among Ghanaian university students	36
Testing a novel extended educational technology acceptance model using student attitudes towards virtual classrooms	36
Applying social cognition to feedback chatbots: Enhancing trustworthiness through politeness	36
Assessing implicit computational thinking in game‐based learning: A logical puzzle game study	35
Promoting students' artwork appreciation: An experiential learning‐based virtual reality approach	35
Primary school teachers' classroom‐based e‐assessment practices: Insights from the theory of planned behaviour	33
Using causal models to bridge the divide between big data and educational theory	33
Evaluating the use of BERT and Llama to analyse classroom dialogue for teachers' learning of dialogic pedagogy	31
Effect of an AI‐based chatbot on students' learning performance in alternate reality game‐based museum learning	31
Design and evaluation of a social and embodied multiplayer reading game to engage primary school learners in Namibia	30
Examining students' attitudes and intentions towards using ChatGPT in higher education	30
Human–AI collaborative learning in mixed reality: Examining the cognitive and socio‐emotional interactions	30
Towards automated transcribing and coding of embodied teamwork communication through multimodal learning analytics	29
Evidence‐based multimodal learning analytics for feedback and reflection in collaborative learning	29
‘It's extremely weird to understand UK culture when you don't live there and just study from abroad’: An empirical investigation of internationalisation at a distance perspectives	29
Requesting a commitment in school teachers to teach in unprecedented ways: The mediating role of teacher agency	29
Student profiles based on in‐game performance and help‐seeking behaviours in an online mathematics game	29
The effects of physical fidelity and task repetition on perceived task load and performance in the virtual reality‐based training simulation	28
The impact of the SMART program on cognitive and academic skills: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	28
Unveiling cognitive processes in digital reading through behavioural cues: A hybrid intelligence (HI) approach	28
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Video demonstrations can predict the intention to use digital learning technologies	27
How does drawing influence the effectiveness of oral self‐explanation versus instructional explanation in video learning?	27
Development of a metacognitive regulation‐based collaborative programming system and its effects on students' learning achievements, computational thinking tendency and group metacognition	27
Exploring Twitter as a social learning space for education scholars: An analysis of value‐added contributions to the #TPACK network	27
Student engagement in online learning in Latin American higher education during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review	27
Evidence‐based learning analytics: Reusing and reapplying successful methods and techniques in real learning settings	27
Analysing nontraditional students' ChatGPT interaction, engagement, self‐efficacy and performance: A mixed‐methods approach	26
An experimental study on reading in high‐immersion virtual reality	26
Fostering complex professional skills with interactive simulation technology: A virtual reality‐based flipped learning approach	26
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Hybrid teaching intelligence: Lessons learned from an embodied mathematics learning experience	24

How to reflect more effectively in online video learning: Balancing processes and outcomes	24
The more the better? How excessive content and online interaction hinder the learning effectiveness of high‐quality MOOCs	24
Privacy risk quantification in education data using Markov model	24
Providing tailored reflection instructions in collaborative learning using large language models	24
Issue Information	24
Effects of immersive virtual reality cardiopulmonary resuscitation training on prospective kindergarten teachers' learning achievements, attitudes and self‐efficacy	23
Understanding higher education students' developing perceptions of geocapabilities through the creation of story maps with geographical information systems	23
Why do college students engage in in‐class media multitasking behaviours? A social learning perspective	23
A human‐centred learning analytics approach for developing contextually scalable K‐12 teacher dashboards	23
Meta‐analysis of the effect of 360‐degree videos on students' learning outcomes and non‐cognitive outcomes	23
Raising student engagement using digital nudges tailored to students' motivation and perceived ability levels	22
Still a fallible tool? Revisiting effects of automated writing evaluation from activity theory perspective	22
A Competency Framework for AI Literacy: Variations by Different Learner Groups and an Implied Learning Pathway	22
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“African magic” or “African science”: Issues of technology in African higher education	21
Technology integration in higher education and student privacy beyond learning environments—A comparison of the UK and US perspective	21
Issue Information	21
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Driving is believing: Using telepresence robots to access makerspace for teachers in rural areas	20
Contextualizing privacy with wearable data in higher education	20
The impact of social robots' presence and roles on children's performance in musical instrument practice	20
Beyond item analysis: Connecting student behaviour and performance using e‐assessment logs	20
What influences student situational engagement in smart classrooms: Perception of the learning environment and students' motivation	20
Comparing reusable, atomic feedback with classic feedback on a linear equations task using text mining and qualitative techniques	20
Learning analytics and assessment: Emerging research trends, promises and future opportunities	20
The pedagogical makerspace: Learning opportunity and challenge for prospective teachers' growth of TPACK	19
Exploring homeplace as a nexus of learning and socially reproductive labour: A feminist perspective on internationalisation at a distance	19
Issue Information	19
Educational apps and learning: Current evidence on design and evaluation	19
Technology addiction, abduction and adoption in higher education: Bird's eye view of the ICT4AD policy in Ghana 20 years on	19
Issue Information	19
Do help options facilitate computer‐based L2 listening comprehension? Evidence from an activity theory perspective	19
Towards integrating quality in theoretical models of acceptance: An extended proposed model applied to e‐learning services	19
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Leveraging cultural forms in human‐centred learning analytics design	19
AI and English language teaching: Affordances and challenges	18
Long‐term effects of an online math tool on U.S. adolescents' achievement	18
Design and validation of a conceptual model for children's continuance intention to use video apps	18
Improving students' inquiry learning in web‐based environments by providing structure: Does the teacher matter or platform matter?	18
Teachers' digital initiatives to bridge students' in‐class and out‐of‐class language learning and the influencing factors	18
Vulnerable student digital well‐being in AI‐powered educational decision support systems (AI‐EDSS) in higher education	18
A question, observation, and organisation‐based SVVR approach to enhancing students' presentation performance, classroom engagement, and technology acceptance in a cultural course	17
The information won't just sink in: Helping teachers provide technology‐assisted data literacy instruction in social studies	17
Collaborative dialogue patterns of pair programming and their impact on programming self‐efficacy and coding performance	17
Influential factors on e‐learning adoption of university students with disability: Effects of type of disability	17
Collaborative Cell Groups: Bridging separation in the Community of Inquiry in a context of Internationalization at a Distance	17
The quest to cultivate an ecocritical awareness in educational technology scholarship: A question of disciplinary focus in the age of environmental crisis	17
Issue Information	17
Co‐designing enduring learning analytics prediction and support tools in undergraduate biology courses	17
Adaptive or adapted to: Sequence and reflexive thematic analysis to understand learners' self‐regulated learning in an adaptive learning analytics dashboard	17
GeoSolvAR: Scaffolding spatial perspective‐taking ability of middle‐school students using AR‐enhanced inquiry learning environment	17
Empowering student self‐regulated learning and science education through ChatGPT: A pioneering pilot study	17