OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Open Distance and e-Learning: Ethiopian Doctoral Students’ Satisfaction with Support Services	55
Book Note: The Hidden Curriculum of Online Learning: Understanding Social Justice through Critical Pedagogy	31
Predicting Online Learners’ Performance Through Ontologies: A Systematic Literature Review	26
What We Talk About When We Talk About Virtual Learning Environments	25
Book Review: The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education	23
Exploring Online Physical Education Teaching: What Have We Done and What Have We Learnt?	20
Threats and Opportunities of Students’ Use Of AI-Integrated Technology (ChatGPT) in Online Higher Education: Saudi Arabian Educational Technologists’ Perspectives	17
Distance Education Practices During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Comparison of Belgium, Japan, Spain, and Türkiye	17
Undergraduate Learning Gains and Learning Efficiency in a Focused Open Education Resource	16
Book Review: Metaphors of Ed Tech, authored by Martin Weller (AU Press, 2022)	15
Doing Open Science in a Research-Based Seminar: Students’ Positioning Towards Openness in Higher Education	14
Educational Technology Undergraduates’ Performance in a Distance Learning Course Using Three Courseware Formats	13
Teacher Perspective on MOOC Evaluation and Competency-Based Open Learning	12
Bibliometric Insights Into the Open Education Landscape	11
Informal Practices of Localizing Open Educational Resources in Ghana	11
How Are We Doing with Open Education Practice Initiatives? Applying an Institutional Self-Assessment Tool in Five Higher Education Institutions	11
Collaboration and Ethics in Distance Learning Design	10
Decoding Video Logs: Unveiling Student Engagement Patterns in Lecture Capture Videos	10
A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on Open Educational Resources: An Analysis of the Legal and Technical Openness	9
The Tensions Between Student Dropout and Flexibility in Learning Design: The Voices of Professors in Open Online Higher Education	9
Book Review: The Encyclopedia of Female Pioneers in Online Learning, authored by Susan Bainbridge and Norine Wark (Routledge, 2022)	9
Artificial Intelligence in Education: A Bibliometric Study on Its Role in Transforming Teaching and Learning	9
Editorial - Volume 24, Issue 1	9
Partnering Higher Education and K–12 Institutions in OER: Foundations in Supporting Teacher OER-Enabled Pedagogy	8
An Intelligent Nudging System to Guide Online Learners	8

Can Online Short Courses Foster Business Education for Sustainable Development?	8
Manuscript Selection in a Literature Review: “Free-Full-Text-or-Next” as a New Criterion	8
University Students’ Persistence With Technology-Mediated Distance Education: A Response to COVID-19 and Beyond in Zimbabwe	8
Editorial - Volume 26, Issue 1	7
Navigating the Learning Landscape: Social Cognition and Task-Technology Fit as Predictors for MOOCs Continuance Intention by Sales Professionals	7
An Example of Using Collaborative Online International Learning for Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Courses	7
Marginalization, Technology Access and Study Approaches of Undergraduate Distance Learners during Covid-19 Pandemic in India	7
“To Use or Not to Use?” A Mixed-Methods Study on the Determinants of EFL College Learners’ Behavioral Intention to Use AI in the Distributed Learning Context	7
Integrating Community of Inquiry Framework Principles With Flipped Classroom Pedagogy to Enhance Students’ Perceived Presence Sense, Self-Regulated Learning, and Learning Performance in Preservice Tea	7
Editorial - Volume 25, Issue 1	6
Discrepancies and Similarities Between Online and Face-to-Face Teachers’ Use of Open Educational Resources (OER) for Teaching Purposes	6
Editorial - Volume 23, Issue 2	6
What Motivates Students About Open Pedagogy? Motivational Regulation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory	6
Design and Validation of the Virtual Classroom Management Questionnaire A Case Study: Iran	6
Scrutinizing Learning Management Systems in Practice: An Applied Time Series Research in Higher Education	6
Book Review: Participant Experience in an Inquiry-Based Massive Open Online Course, authored by Nathaniel Ostashewski and Martha Cleveland-Innes (Commonwealth of Learning, 2022)	5
Methods for Facilitating Adult Learning: Strategies for Enhancing Instruction and Instructor Effectiveness, edited by Joellen E. Coryell, Lisa M. Baumgartner, and Jeremy W. Bohonos (Routledge, 2024)	5
Strengthening Policies for Education, Innovation, and Digitization Through Teacher Training: Evaluating ProFuturo’s Open Model in Ecuador	5
AI in Online-Learning Research: Visualizing and Interpreting the Journal Publications from 1997 to 2019	5
A Case Study on How Distance Education May Inform Post-Pandemic University Teaching	5
Unleashing Adult Learners’ Numeracy Agency Through Self-Determined Online Professional Development	5
AI for Teachers: An Open Textbook—Artificial Intelligence for and by Teachers (2nd edition), by Colin de la Higuera and Jotsna Iyer (Erasmus+, 2024)	5
Potentials and Implications of ChatGPT for ESL Writing Instruction	5
What If It’s All an Illusion? To What Extent Can We Rely on Self-Reported Data in Open, Online, and Distance Education Systems?	4
Editorial - Volume 24, Issue 4	4
Development of the Online Course Overload Indicator and the Student Mental Fatigue Survey	4
Developing a Conceptual Model of Self-Directed Learning in Virtual Environments for Medical Sciences Students	4
Understanding the Relationship Among Self-efficacy, Utility Value, and the Community of Inquiry Framework in Preservice Teacher Education	4
The Impact of OER’s Continuous Improvement Cycles on Students’ Performance: A Longitudinal Analysis of the RISE Framework	4
Impact of Simulation-Based Learning on Learning Loss Among Nursing Students: A Quasi-Experimental Study	4
Educational Processes and Learning at Home During COVID-19: Parents’ Experiences with Distance Education	4
Can Artificial Intelligence Give a Hand to Open and Distributed Learning? A Probe into the State of Undergraduate Students’ Academic Emotions and Test Anxiety in Learning via ChatGPT	4
Open Education and Alternative Digital Credentials in Europe	4
Is My MOOC Learner-Centric? A Framework for Formative Evaluation of MOOC Pedagogy	4
Exploring the Digital Divide in Open Education: A Comparative Analysis of Undergraduate Students	4
Teacher- Versus AI-Generated (Poe Application) Corrective Feedback and Language Learners’ Writing Anxiety, Complexity, Fluency, and Accuracy	4
The Online PhD Experience: A Qualitative Systematic Review	4
Student Engagement, Community of Inquiry, and Transactional Distance in Online Learning Environments: A Stepwise Multiple Linear Regression Analysis	3
Towards Quality Assurance in MOOCs: A Comprehensive Review and Micro-Level Framework	3
Instructor Impact on Differences in Teaching Presence Scores in Online Courses	3
Contextualizing E-Learning Experiences With Indigenous Communities: A Practical, Research-Based Approach	3
Translating and Validating the Community of Inquiry Survey Instrument in Brazil	3
Exploring the Relationship Among Preservice Teachers’ E-Learning Readiness, Learning Engagement, and Learning Performance in HyFlex Learning Environments	3
Enhancing Online Teaching of Business Statistics: A Pedagogy Before Technology Approach	3
Centering Cultural Knowledge in TPACK— Evidence From a Collaborative Online International Learning Collaboration	3
The Impact of a Learning Analytics Based Feedback System on Students’ Academic Achievement and Self-Regulated Learning in a Flipped Classroom	3
MOOCs as a Research Agenda: Changes Over Time	3
What are the indicators of Student Engagement in Learning Management Systems? A Systematized Review of the Literature	3
Using Low-immersive Virtual Reality in Online Learning: Field Notes from Environmental Management Education	3
The Effects of Educational Artificial Intelligence-Powered Applications on Teachers’ Perceived Autonomy, Professional Development for Online Teaching, and Digital Burnout	2

“I Don’t Know if I Can Handle It All”: Students’ Affect During Remote Education in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil	2
Mapping Network Structure and Diversity of Interdisciplinary Knowledge in Recommended MOOC Offerings	2
OXREF: Open XR for Education Framework	2
Critical Issues in Open and Distance Education Research	2
Identifying Pedagogical Design and Implementation of Synchronous Virtual Classrooms	2
The Impact of Switching Intention of Teachers’ Online Teaching in the COVID-19 Era: The Perspective of Push-Pull-Mooring	2
AI Application (ChatGPT) and Saudi Arabian Primary School Students’ Autonomy in Online Classes: Exploring Students and Teachers’ Perceptions	2
A Construct Revalidation of the Community of Inquiry Survey: Empirical Evidence for a General Factor Under a Bifactor Structure	2
Role of AI in Blended Learning: A Systematic Literature Review	2
Extracting Course Features and Learner Profiling for Course Recommendation Systems: A Comprehensive Literature Review	2
Quality Criteria for Online Courses Development	2
Facilitating Students’ Emotional Engagement in Synchronous Online Learning: A Systematic Literature Review	2
Effects of Using the WhatsApp Application on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Learning and Autonomy	2
The Metaphor of AI in Writing in English: A Reflection on EFL Learners’ Motivation to Write, Enjoyment of Writing, Academic Buoyancy, and Academic Success in Writing	2
Ukrainian E-Learning Platforms for Schools: Evaluation of Their Functionality	2
Book Review: Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption, edited by Sungsup Ra, Shanti Jagannathan, and Rupert Maclean (Springer, 2021)	2
Socio-Demographical Variables as Predictors of Academic Self-Directedness	2
Using Few-Shot Learning Materials of Multiple SPOCs to Develop Early Warning Systems to Detect Students at Risk	2
SCOPE of Open Education: A New Framework for Research	2
Evaluating AI-Personalized Learning Interventions in Distance Education	2
Editorial - Volume 23, Issue 4	2
Addressing the Resource-Based View: Determinants That Drive Chinese Universities to Offer MOOCs	2
Automatic Classification of Online Learner Reviews Via Fine-Tuned BERTs	2
Book Review: Exploratory Programming in the Arts and Humanities	1
Report Review – ICDE OERAC: Open Science, Open Educational Resources, and Open Innovation	1
Predicting Online Learning Success Based on Learners’ Perceptions: The Integration of the Information System Success Model and the Security Triangle Framework	1
Analyzing Learning Sentiments on a MOOC Discussion Forum Through Epistemic Network Analysis	1
Distance Mathematics Teaching and Academic Performance in Morocco	1
Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Students’ Behavioral Intentions and Attitudes	1
Revising and Validating the Community of Inquiry Instrument for MOOCs and other Global Online Courses	1
Empowering Asynchronous Arabic Language Learning Through PDF Hyperlink Media	1
Editorial - Volume 25, Issue 4	1
Book Review: Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for Designing Teaching and Learning–Third Edition, authored by Anthony William (Tony) Bates (Tony Bates Associates Ltd., 2022)	1
Comparative Effectiveness of Approaches to Students’ Labour Education in Universities in the New Era With the Use of Information Technologies	1
Measuring the Impact of an Open Educational Resource and Library e-Resource Adoption Program Using the COUP Framework	1
The Landscape of MOOC Platforms Worldwide	1
Educational Experience and Instructional Design Effectiveness Within the Community of Inquiry Framework	1
Navigating Challenges in Remote Speaking Tasks: Unveiling Technical and Non-Technical Problems Faced by Students	1
Open Textbook Author Journeys: Internal Conversations and Cycles of Time	1
How Instructors’ TPACK Developed During Emergency Remote Teaching: Evidence From Instructors in Faculties of Education	1
Technology Enabling the New Normal: How Students Respond to Classes	1
Emergency Online Learning: The Effects of Interactional, Motivational, Self-Regulatory, and Situational Factors on Learning Outcomes and Continuation Intentions	1
Creating an Open Online Educational Resource to Support Learners as They Navigate Their Studies Alongside Work and/or Family	1
Teaching Reform and Practice Based on Four Dimensions and One Penetration for Sensing and Detection Technology	1
Peculiarities of the Development of Students’ Musical Skills Under the Influence of Modern Software	1
Using the Critical Incident Questionnaire as a Formative Evaluation Tool to Inform Online Course Design: A Qualitative Study	1
The Effects and Implications of Using Open Educational Resources in Secondary Schools	1
Exploring Open and Distance Learning Reform at the National University of Lesotho: A Managerial Perspective	1