The Development of a Community of Inquiry in a Synchronous Online Course: A Study of the Relationship of Type of Teaching and Learning to Social, Cognitive, and Teaching Presence

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Skinner ◽  
John Peters
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Synchronous Online

Leveraging Teaching Presence in Online Courses

2016 ◽  
pp. 113-137
Author(s):  
Kun Huang ◽  
Sang Joon Lee ◽  
Ashley Dugan
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Research And Practice

The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework has been widely used to guide the research and practice of online courses. In the CoI framework, three essential elements were identified to be critical for a successful online learning experience: social, cognitive, and teaching presences. While the three presences are overlapping and interdependent, teaching presence is known to be key to the creation of a community of inquiry by addressing cognitive and social issues. Starting with an overview of the CoI framework, this chapter mainly focuses on teaching presence and its two dimensions: instructional design and organization and directed facilitation. Specific strategies and examples for each dimension to leveraging teaching presence in a technology-rich online course are presented and described. In addition, a student's learning experience in the course is also shared to provide a student's perspective of the strategies.

scholarly journals The Characteristics of Successful MOOCs in the Fields of Software, Science, and Management, According to Students’ Perception

10.28945/3614 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 247-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Holstein ◽  
Anat Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Course Success ◽  
Massive Open Online Course ◽  
Software Science ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

The characteristics of successful MOOCs were explored in this study. Thousands of student reviews regarding five xMOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) in the fields of software, science, and management were extracted from the Coursetalk website and analyzed by quantitative and qualitative methods using the Garrison, Anderson, and Archer (2000) Community of Inquiry (CoI) model. The 14 characteristics found to contribute to the success of MOOCs (e.g., teacher, atmosphere, exercise) were partitioned into the teaching, social, and cognitive presence elements. In addition, cluster analysis revealed five types of learners, based on the characteristics they mentioned for course success: atmosphere, exercise, teacher, exam, and unspecified. This divides learners into groups that may prefer social, cognitive, or teaching presence. The findings of this study negate the perception that xMOOCs mostly contain teaching presence elements. This research contributes to the understanding of characteristics that contribute to successful MOOCs and sheds light on the students, too. Listening to the voices of the students and the types of characteristics that they chose to mention, enables further exploration of their preferences and expectations regarding MOOCs and, accordingly, to future adaptation between students’ preferences and MOOC characteristics.

Leveraging Teaching Presence in Online Courses

2016 ◽  
pp. 1687-1711
Author(s):  
Kun Huang ◽  
Sang Joon Lee ◽  
Ashley Dugan
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Research And Practice

The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework has been widely used to guide the research and practice of online courses. In the CoI framework, three essential elements were identified to be critical for a successful online learning experience: social, cognitive, and teaching presences. While the three presences are overlapping and interdependent, teaching presence is known to be key to the creation of a community of inquiry by addressing cognitive and social issues. Starting with an overview of the CoI framework, this chapter mainly focuses on teaching presence and its two dimensions: instructional design and organization and directed facilitation. Specific strategies and examples for each dimension to leveraging teaching presence in a technology-rich online course are presented and described. In addition, a student's learning experience in the course is also shared to provide a student's perspective of the strategies.

scholarly journals Developing the Oral Skill in Online English Courses Framed by the Community of Inquiry

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luz Edith Herrera Díaz ◽  
Darlene González Miy
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Community Of Inquiry Framework ◽  
Basic English ◽  
The Relationship

Over the last decade, the community of inquiry framework has proved successful for online learning experiences in diverse disciplines, although studies in the teaching of English as a foreign language arena are still scarce. In this vein, this article reports a preliminary study about the development of the oral skill in a Basic English online course, uncovering the relationship between the community of inquiry framework (with its three forms of presence: teaching, cognitive, and social) and some indicators of the oral skill. Findings, based on learners’ perceptions, confirmed the existence of such framework and suggest that the teaching presence fosters grammar, accuracy, and vocabulary. Discussion of findings, limitations of the study and future possible research actions conclude this report.

scholarly journals Should Instructors Require Discussion in Online Courses? Effects of Online Discussion on Community of Inquiry, Learner Time, Satisfaction, and Achievement

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moon-Heum Cho ◽  
Scott Tobias
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Significant Difference

<p class="Style2">Online discussion is a commonly used means to promote student understanding of a topic and to facilitate social interaction among students or between students and instructor; however, its effects on student learning in online learning environments have rarely been investigated.  The purpose of this study was to examine the role of online discussion in student learning experiences measured with community of inquiry, learner time, satisfaction, and achievement.  One instructor taught the same online course for three consecutive semesters using three different conditions.  During one semester enrolled students engaged in no discussion, during another semester they engaged in discussion without instructor participation, and in the remaining semester they engaged in discussion with active instructor participation.  No significant differences were found among conditions in cognitive presence and the instructor’s teaching presence, whereas significant difference was found in social presence among conditions.  No significant differences among conditions were found time spent on Blackboard, course satisfaction, and student achievement.  Implications for online teaching and learning as well as for designing an online course conclude the paper.</p>

scholarly journals The Relationship of Teaching, Social and Cognitive Presence with Course Satisfaction in a TESL Programme Course in a Public University in Sabah, East Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. p35
Author(s):  
Tan, Choon Keong ◽  
Kon, Onn Keong
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Public University ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Course Satisfaction ◽  
Teaching Presence ◽  
East Malaysia ◽  
Community Of Inquiry Framework ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine whether teaching presence, social presence and cognitive presence were significant predictors of course satisfaction in a blended learning course at a public university in Sabah, East Malaysia. The research design was based on the Community of Inquiry framework survey involving 32 third-year undergraduates majoring in TESL (Teaching of English as a Second Language). Pearson r correlational analysis was used to determine the relationship between teaching presence, social presence, cognitive presence and course satisfaction. The findings of this study showed that both social presence and cognitive presence were significantly associated with course satisfaction, but not with teaching presence.

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 Edusemiotics as process semiotics: Towards a new model of semiosis for teaching and learning

Semiotica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (212) ◽  
pp. 45-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Stables
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Model ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractStandard definitions posit the sign as a discrete entity in relation with other signs and standing for an object (either physical or psychological). Thus the sign has two roles, as prompt and as substitutive representation. The latter raises difficult questions about the relationship of the semiotic to the non-semiotic or pre-semiotic, which can be resolved logically (as in Peirce) or rejected as unanswerable (as in Saussure), but which can never be satisfactorily resolved empirically as the phenomenal cannot be divorced from the semiotic. This impasse can be resolved if we drop the assumption that the sign is essentially substitutive. The assumption of discrete entities, at either the phenomenal or the noumenal levels, is a function of discredited substance metaphysics. On a process metaphysical account, the reality of the sign is not attached to the discreteness of any pre-existing entity. The sign remains as prompt and as relational but not (other than sometimes with respect to other signs) substitutive. Rather than defined as standing for an object, the sign can now be regarded much more simply as a feature of an event. This conception of the sign is explored in terms of its implications for teaching and learning.

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