Pedagogical Requirements in a University-Context Characterized by Online and Blended Courses

2013 ◽  
pp. 401-427
Author(s):  
Dodzi J.-A. Amemado
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
University Education ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Blended Courses

This research was undertaken in fifteen Canadian universities, using interviews of higher education teaching center managers and IT specialists, all of them having university-teaching backgrounds. The study concerned the ramifications to teaching requirements as university education shifts into the digital era. The research was predicated upon the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000). In the light of this theoretical framework, the results demonstrated the importance of the elements of the framework: teaching presence, cognitive presence, and social presence. Interestingly, in the responses collected, the frequency of some indicators over others, such as information exchange, discussion, and collaboration, led to the conclusion that some categories, such as group cohesion, should be given a greater consideration in the CoI framework and, therefore, should be given more weight toward the pedagogical requirements for online/blended teaching and learning.

Fostering Social Presence in a Blended Learning Faculty Development Institute

2013 ◽  
pp. 374-388
Author(s):  
David S. Goldstein ◽  
Carol Leppa ◽  
Andreas Brockhaus ◽  
Rebecca Bliquez ◽  
Ian Porter
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Hybrid Course ◽  
Blended Courses ◽  
Development Institute

To help faculty develop well-designed blended courses, the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2000) was used to design and deliver a ten-week Hybrid Course Development Institute (HCDI) for faculty members from a variety of disciplines. The faculty experienced a blended format and developed courses based on the three components of the CoI framework: cognitive presence, teaching presence, and social presence, the last of which is particularly challenging to achieve. This chapter provides an overview of the HCDI structure, content, and assessment, and suggests ways to foster social presence in and beyond a blended learning institute for faculty members.

Expanding the CoI

2013 ◽  
pp. 429-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastián Romualdo Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
Online Teaching And Learning ◽  
Parallel Processes

This chapter explores how the foundational principles of the Community of Inquiry survey can be used to assess and evaluate parallel processes for Knowledge Workers, given that online teaching and learning is quite similar to “online working.” The phenomenon analogous to teaching presence in online learning is a knowledge worker’s ability to create and disseminate knowledge. Communities of Practice provide a measurable phenomenon analogous to social presence. Finally, data-driven decision-making’s use for evaluation, coupled with innovation, serves as a phenomenon parallel to cognitive presence. Together, these three measures, developed in parallel with teaching, social and cognitive presence, provide an effective framework for evaluating online work, which is quite similar to online learning.

scholarly journals Applying the community of inquiry framework to an online professional practice doctoral program

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swapna Kumar ◽  
Kara Dawson ◽  
Erik W Black ◽  
Catherine Cavanaugh ◽  
Christopher D Sessums
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Community Of Inquiry Framework

The community of inquiry (CoI) framework has commonly been used to study teaching and learning in online courses (Garrison, Anderson, &amp; Archer 2000). This paper describes the implementation of the CoI framework in a cohort-based online EdD program, where teaching presence and cognitive presence were easier to foster than social presence. Based on the results of an initial evaluation, suggestions are made to expand the components of the CoI framework when using it at a program level. Lessons learned from the implementation are also shared to assist others wishing to apply the CoI framework to online graduate programs. <br /><br />

scholarly journals A Distributed Perspective on the Community-of-Inquiry Framework for Distance Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piera Biccard
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Community Of Inquiry Framework

This conceptual paper sets out the community-of-inquiry framework from a distributed perspective. It proposes that considering teaching presence, social presence and cognitive presence from a distributed perspective allows the broadening of the presences to consider the way in which participants, content and tools maintain and advance these presences. Distance education is problematic since the separation of instructor and student necessitates a change of pedagogy. The paper argues that by distributing the typical silos of “teaching” and “learning”, more flexible opportunities are enabled. The distribution of the three presences across participants, content and tools is proposed as one way of mitigating distances in distance education. It is recommended that the proposed model be subject to empirical research to ascertain the usefulness of the model in practice.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMMUNITY OF INQUIRY OVER TIME IN AN ONLINE COURSE: UNDERSTANDING THE PROGRESSION AND INTEGRATION OF SOCIAL, COGNITIVE AND TEACHING PRESENCE

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zehra Akyol ◽  
D. Randy Garrison
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Community Of Inquiry Framework ◽  
Discussion Postings ◽  
Over Time

The purpose of this study was to explore the dynamics of an online educational experience through the lens of the Community of Inquiry framework. Transcript analysis of online discussion postings and the Community of Inquiry survey were applied in order to understand the progression and integration of each of the Community of Inquiry presences. The results indicated significant change in teaching and social presence categories over time. Moreover, survey results yielded significant relationships among teaching presence, cognitive presence and social presence, and students’ perceived learning and satisfaction in the course.

scholarly journals The teacher as leader: Effect of teaching behaviors on class community and agreement

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Rubin ◽  
Ronald Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Teaching Behaviors ◽  
Group Leaders ◽  
Class Level ◽  
Class Leaders ◽  
Group Agreement

<p>This article examines the effects of teaching behaviors in online university classes, focusing on the agreement among class members. Literature on group leaders’ effects on group agreement about workplace climate is reviewed. Hypotheses are generated about the effects that teachers of online courses, as class leaders, have on both the level and agreement about the community of inquiry. They are tested with a sample of 874 students in 126 online courses. The aggregate class level and strength of agreement about the teaching presence have significant effects on the level and agreement about cognitive presence and social presence. Although the aggregate levels and agreement about community of inquiry are related, different patterns emerge.</p><p>The paper explores the interaction effects of level and agreement, finding that in classes with high levels of teaching presence, the higher the agreement about teaching presence, the higher the agreement about cognitive and social presence especially for classes reporting stronger levels of cognitive and social presence. In classes with lower levels of teaching presence, agreement has a different effect.</p>

scholarly journals ONLINE COMMUNITY OF INQUIRY REVIEW: SOCIAL, COGNITIVE, AND TEACHING PRESENCE ISSUES

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Garrison
Keyword(s):  
Direct Instruction ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Methodological Issue ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Important Distinction ◽  
Progressive Development

This paper explores four issues that have emerged from the research on social, cognitive and teaching presence in an online community of inquiry. The early research in the area of online communities of inquiry has raised several issues with regard to the creation and maintenance of social, cognitive and teaching presence that require further research and analysis. The other overarching issue is the methodological validity associated with the community of inquiry framework.The first issue is about shifting social presence from socio-emotional support to a focus on group cohesion (from personal to purposeful relationships). The second issue concerns the progressive development of cognitive presence (inquiry) from exploration to resolution. That is, moving discussion beyond the exploration phase. The third issue has to do with how we conceive of teaching presence (design, facilitation, direct instruction). More specifically, is there an important distinction betweenfacilitation and direct instruction? Finally, the methodological issue concerns qualitative transcript analysis and the validity of the coding protocol.

scholarly journals Re-examining the Construct Validity and Causal Relationships of Teaching, Cognitive and Social Presence in Community of Inquiry Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Dempsey ◽  
Jie Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Structure Study ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Structural Relationships ◽  
Online Experience ◽  
Community Of Inquiry Framework

Despite the prevalence of research on the community of inquiry framework and its associated measurement instrument, more research is needed to re-evaluate the factor structure, study the effects of covariates or measurement invariance, and explore the relationships amongst the three presences. Results of this study indicated that (a) teaching, social, and cognitive presence are each multidimensional and higher-order constructs; (b) measurement invariance was fully achieved for gender and partially for age, ethnicity, discipline, and online experience; (c) structural relationships of the three main constructs—teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence—suggested potential psychometric adjustments. The teaching presence construct in particular should be reconstructed to appropriately reflect and measure the construct as conceptually defined—as a distribution of teaching responsibility and authority—as opposed to how it is currently operationalized in the community of inquiry instrument—as a centralization of responsibility and authority with the instructor.

scholarly journals The Development of a Community of Inquiry Over Time in an Online Course: Understanding the Progression and Integration of Social, Cognitive and Teaching Presence

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zehra Akyol ◽  
Randy Garrison
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Perceived Learning ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Community Of Inquiry Framework ◽  
Over Time

The purpose of this study was to explore the dynamics of an online educational experience through the lens of the Community of Inquiry framework. Transcript analysis of online discussion postings and the Community of Inquiry survey were applied to understand the progression and integration of each of the Community of Inquiry presences. The results indicated a significant change in teaching and social presence categories over time. Moreover, survey results yielded significant relationships among teaching presence, cognitive presence and social presence, and students’ perceived learning and satisfaction in the course. The findings have important implications theoretically in terms of confirming the framework and practically by identifying the dynamics of each of the presences and their association with perceived learning and satisfaction.

scholarly journals Examining Student Experience of Blended Learning from the Perspective of the Community of Inquiry Framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne Yuet Ching Lam*
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Constructivist Perspective ◽  
Community Of Inquiry Framework

Blended learning evolved from educational technology and it connects learning in and beyond the classroom. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) is a framework for blended learning from a socio-constructivist perspective in which learning is based on educational experiences in the environment with collaboration and interaction. The purpose of this paper is to explore student experience in a blended learning course from the viewpoint of the CoI. A case study approach using qualitative methods is used in the research. By examining the experiences of the students, social presence, cognitive presence and teaching presence were found. Although these three elements are required for educational experiences in blended learning, an unexpected issue about students' learning in the community without teaching presence was identified. This paper suggests that the role of learning autonomy and its relation to the community should be considered in the CoI framework. The value of this paper is that it confirms the elements in the CoI and proposes the addition of a new element in the framework.

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