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Stewart, Mary K.; Hilliard, Lyra; Stillman-Webb, Natalie; Cunningham, Jennifer M. – Online Learning, 2021
This article applies the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework to a particular disciplinary context: first-year writing (FYW). Students enrolled in online FYW courses across three institutions (n = 272) completed a version of the CoI survey that was slightly modified to fit the disciplinary context of writing studies. A factor analysis was…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Freshman Composition, Online Courses
Crystal D. Howell – Online Learning, 2023
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, more K-12 teachers in the United States were teaching online than ever before, particularly in rural and economically distressed communities (US Department of Education, 2011), and since March 2020, nearly every teacher has become, at least for a little while, a virtual teacher. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Web Based Instruction, Women Faculty, Blended Learning
Martin, Florence; Wu, Tong; Wan, Liyong; Xie, Kui – Online Learning, 2022
The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework describes three essential presences (i.e., teaching presence, cognitive presence, and social presence) and how these presences interact in providing an educational experience in online and blended learning environments. This meta-analysis examined 19 empirical studies on the CoI Presences (teaching…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Meta Analysis, Correlation, Communities of Practice
Honig, Catherine A.; Salmon, Diane – Online Learning, 2021
The present study explored the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, a theoretical structure identifying processes leading to effective online learning, within one particular learning context. Drawing from research supporting the significance of three presences--teaching, social, and cognitive--this study augments a line of research on a potential…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Online Courses
Park, Hyejin; Shea, Peter – Online Learning, 2020
This study reviewed evolving research trends in online, distance, and blended learning over the past ten years through co-citation analysis. Related peer-reviewed research articles in the Web of Science were obtained and the references in the articles were analyzed. The result showed that literature review and meta-analysis studies on distance…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Trends, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
Thurber, Derek; Trautvetter, Lois – Online Learning, 2020
The purpose of this case study was to examine how a professional graduate program in higher education administration developed seminar-style courses in a blended format. Blended courses involved two extended in-person weekend sessions with synchronous online sessions, and other asynchronous coursework in between. This study explored the importance…
Descriptors: Interaction, Student Satisfaction, Student Motivation, Graduate Students
Duha, Mohammad Shams Ud; Richardson, Jennifer C.; Ahmed, Zohur; Yeasmin, Fahmida – Online Learning, 2022
Students' extensive use of Facebook in their daily lives has led researchers to investigate the affordances of Facebook for educational purposes. To further the research into the use of Facebook to improve language teaching, we conducted a convergent parallel mixed-methods study to examine the use of Community of Inquiry-informed Facebook…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Social Media, Social Networks, Second Language Learning
Smith, Sedef Uzuner; Hayes, Suzanne; Shea, Peter – Online Learning, 2017
After presenting a brief overview of the key elements that underpin Etienne Wenger's communities of practice (CoP) theoretical framework, one of the most widely cited and influential conceptions of social learning, this paper reviews extant empirical work grounded in this framework to investigate online/blended learning in higher education and in…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Blended Learning, Communities of Practice, Literature Reviews
Picciano, Anthony G. – Online Learning, 2017
This article examines theoretical frameworks and models that focus on the pedagogical aspects of online education. After a review of learning theory as applied to online education, a proposal for an integrated "Multimodal Model for Online Education" is provided based on pedagogical purpose. The model attempts to integrate the work of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Blended Learning, Learning Theories, Models
Pool, Jessica; Reitsma, Gerda; van den Berg, Dirk – Online Learning, 2017
This paper presents a study grounded in the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework using qualitative content analysis and focus group interviews in an effort to identify aspects of learning presence in a blended learning course. Research has suggested that the CoI framework may need additional emphasis based on the roles of strategic learners in…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Qualitative Research, Content Analysis
McDonald, Paige L.; Straker, Howard O.; Schlumpf, Karen S.; Plack, Margaret M. – Online Learning, 2014
This article discusses a learning partnership among faculty and students to influence reflective practice in a blended course. Faculty redesigned a traditional face-to-face (FTF) introductory physician assistant course into a blended course to promote increased reflection and higher order thinking. Early student reflective writing suggested a need…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Cooperative Learning, Communities of Practice, Reflection
Whiteside, Aimee L. – Online Learning, 2015
This study explores the level of "social presence" or connectedness, in two iterations of a 13-month, graduate-level certificate program designed to help K-12 school leaders integrate technology in their districts. Vygotsky's Social Development Theory serves as the theoretical lens for this programmatic research. The methods include a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Blended Learning, Graduate Study, Social Development