Designing a Community of Inquiry in Online Courses

This article describes a practical approach for implementing instructional strategies in order to build a Community of Inquiry (CoI) into an online course. Online community building has positive effects on the quality of student learning, increases student engagement, and encourages motivation of st...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b2dfcca8bfb64030a787119fc97a71e42021-12-02T17:16:06ZDesigning a Community of Inquiry in Online Courses10.19173/irrodl.v20i5.39851492-3831https://doaj.org/article/b2dfcca8bfb64030a787119fc97a71e42020-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3985https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831This article describes a practical approach for implementing instructional strategies in order to build a Community of Inquiry (CoI) into an online course. Online community building has positive effects on the quality of student learning, increases student engagement, and encourages motivation of students in online courses. The CoI is a theoretical framework focusing on facilitating meaningful learning experiences through three presences: cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence. This article will introduce the CoI framework by way of literature review focusing on CoI instructional strategies. Using Sorensen and Baylen’s (2009) seven principles of good practice, the author will structure CoI instructional activities into presence categories for practitioner use. Holly FiockAthabasca University Pressarticleonline learninginstructional strategiessense of communitycollaborative learningdistance educationcommunity of inquirySpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 21, Iss 1 (2020)
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language EN
topic online learning
instructional strategies
sense of community
collaborative learning
distance education
community of inquiry
Special aspects of education
LC8-6691
spellingShingle online learning
instructional strategies
sense of community
collaborative learning
distance education
community of inquiry
Special aspects of education
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Holly Fiock
Designing a Community of Inquiry in Online Courses
description This article describes a practical approach for implementing instructional strategies in order to build a Community of Inquiry (CoI) into an online course. Online community building has positive effects on the quality of student learning, increases student engagement, and encourages motivation of students in online courses. The CoI is a theoretical framework focusing on facilitating meaningful learning experiences through three presences: cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence. This article will introduce the CoI framework by way of literature review focusing on CoI instructional strategies. Using Sorensen and Baylen’s (2009) seven principles of good practice, the author will structure CoI instructional activities into presence categories for practitioner use.
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