OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Distance Education is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond design: The systemic nature of distance delivery mode selection	45
Exploring instructors’ cultural presence in online course design and delivery	31
From open access to open science—Open education in transition	30
Effects of personal and instructor goals on MOOC continuance intention	26
The online PhD dropout: narratives and meanings of withdrawal	21
Open educational resources as the panacea for the decolonisation of e-learning content in South Africa	21
Connecting learners to learning at a distance	20
Addressing the challenging elements of distance education	18
Learning at a distance: recognising remote tutoring as a career	16
Deepening the focus on microcredentials—labour market sector relevance, quality and inclusion: a critical commentary	16
Toward building a fair peer recommender to support help-seeking in online learning	16
A synergistic framework for curricular flexibility in online collaborative learning	13
Does the early bird catch the worm? A large-scale examination of the effects of early participation in online learning	13
“Welcome to my backyard”: an intersectional approach to inclusive teaching in the asynchronous learning environment	13
Pre-service teachers’ adaptability to blended teaching and its predictors	13
Examining online university classrooms through emotion work and feeling currencies	11
Universal design in online education: A systematic review	11
Photos from home: Integrating lived experience in a remote-learning environment	11
Mapping racial justice to online teacher education	11
Effectiveness of blended teaching in preservice teacher education: A meta-analysis	11
Online higher education student engagement: finding flow	11
Explaining technical, social, and discursive participation in online mathematical discussions	10
Developing an agentic engagement scale in a self-paced MOOC	10
Promoting potential through purposeful inclusive assessment for distance learners	10
Exploring (in)dependent learning in a cross-institutional project about perceptions of learning	9

Systemic considerations to support distance education environments	8
Do online teaching and social presences contribute to motivational growth?	8
Characterization of approaches to online teaching in distance education courses	8
Inclusive online and distance education for learners with dis/abilities	7
Teachers’ motivating styles and students’ agentic engagement in online learning	7
Leveraging technology for animal anatomy practicals	7
Design principles for holistic student formation in online programs	6
Promoting culturally responsive teaching in online learning: experiences and challenges of instructors and students in higher education	6
Enhancing distance learning with virtual reality: investigating learners’ engagement and outcomes	6
Investigating working adult learners’ feedback literacy in online project-based learning: a convergent mixed methods study	6
Reimagining and reengineering education systems for the post-COVID-19 era	6
The open master: A new model of transnational higher education	6
Virtual internships in open and distance learning contexts: Improving access, participation, and success for underrepresented students	6
Teachers’ use of mobile devices in suburban under-resourced secondary schools in Nepal	6
Examining online teaching practices in a K-12 setting	6
Temporal-spatial and pedagogical flexibility in distance education	6
The effects of politeness in shaping discourse in online debates	6