Online instructional effort measured through the lens of teaching presence in the community of inquiry framework: A re-examination of measures and approach

With more than 4 million students enrolled in online courses in the US alone (Allen & Seaman, 2010), it is now time to inquire into the nature of instructional effort in online environments. Reflecting the community of inquiry (CoI) framework (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000) this paper a...

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Autores principales: Peter Shea, Suzanne Hayes, Jason Vickers
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:19d1ff94736b45339024dca958d1573b2021-12-02T18:03:26ZOnline instructional effort measured through the lens of teaching presence in the community of inquiry framework: A re-examination of measures and approach10.19173/irrodl.v11i3.9151492-3831https://doaj.org/article/19d1ff94736b45339024dca958d1573b2010-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/915https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831With more than 4 million students enrolled in online courses in the US alone (Allen & Seaman, 2010), it is now time to inquire into the nature of instructional effort in online environments. Reflecting the community of inquiry (CoI) framework (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000) this paper addresses the following questions: How has instructor teaching presence (Anderson, Rourke, Garrison, & Archer, 2001) traditionally been viewed by researchers? What does productive instructor effort look like in an entire course, not just the main threaded discussion? Results suggest that conventional research approaches, based on quantitative content analysis, fail to account for the majority of teaching presence behaviors and thus may significantly under represent productive online instructional effort.Peter SheaSuzanne HayesJason VickersAthabasca University Pressarticleteaching presencecommunity of inquiryhigher educationSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 11, Iss 3 (2010)
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topic teaching presence
community of inquiry
higher education
Special aspects of education
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community of inquiry
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Special aspects of education
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Peter Shea
Suzanne Hayes
Jason Vickers
Online instructional effort measured through the lens of teaching presence in the community of inquiry framework: A re-examination of measures and approach
description With more than 4 million students enrolled in online courses in the US alone (Allen & Seaman, 2010), it is now time to inquire into the nature of instructional effort in online environments. Reflecting the community of inquiry (CoI) framework (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000) this paper addresses the following questions: How has instructor teaching presence (Anderson, Rourke, Garrison, & Archer, 2001) traditionally been viewed by researchers? What does productive instructor effort look like in an entire course, not just the main threaded discussion? Results suggest that conventional research approaches, based on quantitative content analysis, fail to account for the majority of teaching presence behaviors and thus may significantly under represent productive online instructional effort.
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Jason Vickers
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title Online instructional effort measured through the lens of teaching presence in the community of inquiry framework: A re-examination of measures and approach
title_short Online instructional effort measured through the lens of teaching presence in the community of inquiry framework: A re-examination of measures and approach
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