Matt’s Notes
Hello! It is really good to see you! In the latest episode, we discuss the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework as way to help conceptualize, design, and teach in online, hybrid, blended, and other electronically-mediated forms of learning… in fact, this is the first in a four-part series on CoI!
So… it’s been a time!
We recorded this episode more than one week ago…
I told Doug that it should be ready the next day.
Then I went to Kelowna for almost a week… pretty much unannounced… and had, hands down, the best solo vacation that I can remember… I’d planned to visit for three days and ended up staying for five… and I came back as a straight-edge vegan…
That’s a story for another time! Many thanks to Doug for his patience… and for the topic!
As much as I’m feeling on the other side of something significant since the last episode… I’m going to refrain from saying too much else… since the whole way I look at and experience the world feels majorly different than the last time I sat down to this…
There are lots of excellent Community of Inquiry resources out there… obviously I’m very attached to the CoI because it informed a major portion of my doctoral thesis… which, for better or for worse, has driven me and my family to places we would never have experienced otherwise…
Professional, personal, geographic, and learning places.
We are all Kamloopsians now.
Doug’s Notes
CoI Framework – Communities of Inquiry
The genesis of this framework can be found in the work of John Dewey and is consistent with constructivist approaches to learning in higher education.
Garrison, D. R., & Arbaugh, J. B. (2007). Researching the community of inquiry framework: Review, issues, and future directions. The Internet and higher education, 10(3), 157-172.
Studying social interactions, vis-à-vis social presence and the Community of Inquiry model, has the potential to help further our understanding of how learning occurs in MOOCs.
Stranach, M. (2017). Social Presence in Two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): A Multiple Case Study (Unpublished doctoral thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
The CoI framework is one of the most extensively used frameworks in online teaching and learning.
The CoI framework provides guidance for both research in online teaching, and design of online learning experiences.
Castellanos-Reyes, D. (2020). 20 years of the community of inquiry framework. TechTrends, 64(4), 557-560.
“Community,” a word used copiously in educational research, is often used to refer to the cognitive or emotional connections established between physically separated learners.
… there is a void of how to implement instructional strategies aligned with the Community of Inquiry for practitioners.
Fiock, H. (2020). Designing a community of inquiry in online courses. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 21(1), 135-153.
Seneca’s Philosophy
The happy life is not to be found in pleasures or possessions, wrote Seneca, who was soon to be stripped of both. It is a life spent in pursuit of virtue, of learning what is the right thing to do and then doing it — no matter how many people do otherwise. We may live to old age or die young; we may be healthy or sick, rich or poor: These are matters of fortune beyond our control. We control only our own thoughts and actions, how we conduct ourselves and how we treat others.
Von Drehle, D. (2020, Sept 9). Stoics ring true in pandemic. The Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
Word of the Podcast
Community
Question of the Podcast
What aspect of community is most important to you regarding your learning?
And that was that! We’re gonna be back sooner than later! Take care until then…
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