OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Computing in Higher Education is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Wild brooms and learning analytics	145
Effects of technology enhanced peer, teacher and self-feedback on students’ collaborative writing, critical thinking tendency and engagement in learning	64
The effect of the flipped classroom approach on creative thinking, self-esteem, and social interaction of English foreign language learners in intermediate level	63
Enhancing students’ beliefs regarding programming self-efficacy and intrinsic value of an online distributed Programming Environment	53
An evaluation of a first-of-its-kind hybrid law degree program	50
A measurement of faculty views on the meaning and value of student privacy	45
Not now, maybe later: the mediating influence of techno-overload on the relationship between academic self-efficacy and procrastination	44
Examining the role of computing identity in the computing experiences of women and racially minoritized undergraduates: a literature review	36
Connecting affordances of physical and virtual laboratory modes to engineering epistemic practices	33
Investigating the influencing factors of the intention to continue using MOOCs: the perspective of modified TAM with TDT	33
A critique of calculation and optionalization applied to online/blended course design	29
Exploring satisfaction of online teaching faculty from a Job Demands-Resources model perspective: the mediating roles of emotional exhaustion and motivation	29
Empowering student engagement: the dynamics of learner traits in digital feedback environments	27
Adoption of open educational resources in the global south	25
Effects and acceptability of virtual reality to facilitate mindfulness practice in university students	25
Mobile-based artificial intelligence chatbot for self-regulated learning in a hybrid flipped classroom	24
HyFlex course design: outcomes, challenges, and supports for students and instructors	24
Profiles of students’ behavioral engagement and their associations to academic motivation in online learning	22
Process and summative assessment of groups’ collaborative knowledge building	22
Effectiveness of gamification on team building activities to improve student learning experiences in online courses	21
Design-based research to develop design principles for collaborative learning in asynchronous distributed online groups	21
A note from the advisory board	20
Evaluating the design of digital tools for the transition to an e-continuous assessment in higher education	19
Accessible and inclusive online learning in higher education: a review of the literature	19
Online laboratories and virtual experimentation in higher education from a sociotechnical-pedagogical design perspective	18

Digital literacy of English majors: subjective versus objective assessment	18
Effectiveness of H5P in improving student learning outcomes in an online tertiary education setting	17
Predicting the quality of robotics-enhanced lesson plans using motivation, academic standing, and collaboration status	17
A multimodal analysis of college students’ collaborative problem solving in virtual experimentation activities: a perspective of cognitive load	17
Honoring sovereignties through technology within indigenous community research partnerships	17
Open badges and achievement goal orientation: a study with high-performing student programmers	17
Post-secondary online learning in the U.S.: an integrative review of the literature on undergraduate student characteristics	16
Combining data from a LMS and a student register for exploring factors affecting study duration	16
Using chatbots to support student goal setting and social presence in fully online activities: learner engagement and perceptions	15
Understanding university students’ self-directed online learning in the context of emergency remote teaching: the role of online learning readiness and digital literacy	14
A systems thinking perspective on learning design in higher education	14
From awareness to empowerment: self-determination theory-informed learning analytics dashboards to enhance student engagement in asynchronous online courses	13
Review of research on the outcomes of embodied and collaborative learning in STEM in higher education with immersive technologies	13
How does task complexity affect group processes and dynamics in computer-supported collaborative learning? An analysis of structural relationships between perceived task complexity, group atmosphere,	13
Exploring expert instructors’ conceptualization and teaching practices in asynchronous online discussions during case-based learning: a multiple case study	11
Personalisation in STE(A)M education: a review of literature from 2011 to 2020	11
Analyzing the effects of instructional strategies on students’ on-task status from aspects of their learning behaviors and cognitive factors	11
Building a policy research agenda in educational technology: current disconnects and future recommendations	10
The impact of teacher, peer, and automated writing evaluation feedback on developing deep writing skills: a comparative study	10
“Free selection and invitation” online peer assessment of undergraduates’ research competencies, flow, motivation and interaction in a research methods course	9
Leveraging contrastive learning to improve group and individual fairness in predictive analytics for online learning	9
Online learners’ self-regulated learning skills regarding LMS interactions: a profiling study	9
Engaged learning during distraction: a case study of successful working moms in distance education	9
What makes ALEKS learning successful?: influences of prior knowledge, learning time, self-efficacy, and resource management on learning achievement	8
Applications of human–AI interaction to optimize teaching workload and improve student writing	8
A synthesis of surveys examining the impacts of COVID-19 and emergency remote learning on students in Canada	8
Learning analytics in support of inclusiveness and disabled students: a systematic review	8
The relations between self-reported perceptions of learning environment, observational learning strategies, and academic outcome	8
The impact of interactive synchronous HyFlex model on student academic performance in a large active learning introductory college design course	8
Using an integrated probabilistic clustering approach to detect student engagement across asynchronous and synchronous online discussions	8
Educational design research for relevant & robust scholarship	8
Exploring the internal dynamics of collaborative engagement in high- and low-performing collaborative problem-solving groups	7
Correction: Instructors’ educational ICT use in higher education in developing countries: evidence from three Ethiopian Universities	7
Remote labs in higher engineering education: engaging students with active learning pedagogy	7
Of house of cards and air castles, a deep dive into the fertile fields of educational technologies and technology enhanced learning	6
Testing and exploring the predictors of faculty motivation to use learning analytics to enhance teaching effectiveness	6
Exploring the relationship between students’ information problem solving patterns and epistemic beliefs: a mixed methods sequential analysis study	6
Flipped classroom: motivational affordances of spherical video-based immersive virtual reality in support of pre-lecture individual learning in pre-service teacher education	6
Personalized games for computer science education in higher education: the effect of personalization feature on students’ engagement and flow state	6
Ellulian provocations for educational technology and higher education	5
A call to action for eProfessionalism: developing the use of ePortfolio with emerging health and education practitioners	5
The significance of personality traits, collaborative attitudes, and group composition during collaborative online international learning (COIL): a mixed methods study	5
Using networked learning to improve learning analytics implementation	5
Using learning analytics to explore the multifaceted engagement in collaborative learning	5
An exploratory study on fade-in versus fade-out scaffolding for novice programmers in online collaborative programming settings	4
Students-Generative AI interaction patterns and its impact on academic writing	4
Capturing students’ LMS experience: measurement invariance across Chinese and English versions	4
Online group projects in higher education: persistent challenges and implications for practice	4
Understanding the pathways to online learner engagement and satisfaction in higher education: the function of digital literacy and dialogue	4
Virtual clinical assessment in medical education: an investigation of online conference technology	4

Teachers’ readiness for blended learning, digital competences and digital instructional material development self-efficacy	4
Adopting distributed pair programming as an effective team learning activity: a systematic review	4
Socially shared metacognitive supports in flipped or online classroom collaborative groups: examining the effect on motivation, group metacognition, group belonging, and cohesion	4
A scoping review of computational thinking assessments in higher education	4
Grand challenges in instructional design and technology: developing a strategic plan for coordinated research and development	4
Adaptive teaching in higher education: real-time design patterns for educator-led instruction	4
Is education better because of us? How ed tech can answer the call to produce research that matters	4
Lessons learned from designing a curriculum analytics tool for improving student learning and program quality	4
Validation of self-efficacy questionnaire of online learning for students with disabilities in higher education	4
Examining the effect of a genetic algorithm-enabled grouping method on collaborative performances, processes, and perceptions	3
The effect of learning analytics assisted recommendations and guidance feedback on students’ metacognitive awareness and academic achievements	3
A decade of highly cited articles in educational technology research: emerging trends, dominant themes, and future directions	3
Digital social multitasking in educational contexts: a study of motives and task relevance in college classrooms	3
Introduction to special section: learning analytics as part of the higher education ecosystem	3
Using text mining and machine learning to predict reasoning activities from think-aloud transcripts in computer assisted learning	3
Privacy in online proctoring systems in higher education: stakeholders’ perceptions, awareness and responsibility	3
Exploring the role of a microlearning instructional approach in an introductory database programming course: an exploratory case study	3
A story-driven gamified education on USB-based attack	3
Learning analytics as data ecology: a tentative proposal	3