Pre-Workshop: Create a Community of Inquiry
Section outline
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The Community of Inquiry framework provides a context for the components of teaching and learning in an online environment. The watch, read, and explore parts of this module explain the characteristics of a community of inquiry, why it is important, and how to foster it. The try part invites you to plan how you will foster a community of inquiry in your online course.
You no doubt participate in online communities of inquiry or practice within your own academic discipline. We encourage you to look to these discipline-specific communities both as resources for learning about online teaching practices in your discipline and as potential models for how (and how not) to design and foster an online community of inquiry.
Outcomes
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Explain what a community of inquiry is and how it impacts online learning
- Generate at least 2-3 ideas for create teaching, cognitive and social presence in your course
- Devise an initial plan for building a community of inquiry in your course.
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Source: YouTube
(Watch time: 4 min, 19 sec)Description: Garrison, Anderson, and Archer proposed a model for Community of Inquiry in their 2000 paper Critical Inquiry in a text-based environment: computer conferencing in higher education. Here Owen Guthrie discusses a couple of important aspects of their model.
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Students mustMark as done
A more recent exploration of how these concepts might be applied to online course design.
Source: Mia Lamm, Johns Hopkins University
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Using the table in this worksheet, choose the ways in which you plan to create a community of inquiry in your class. Make sure to have at least one option for each type of presence (teaching, cognitive, social). A list of possible activities for each presence is beneath the table, along with a diagram of the cognitive process and tables of categories and indicators for each presence.