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Direct linkSylvia Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student enrollment in online courses continues to grow as student retention rates continue to decrease. Student disengagement in learning directly impacts online nursing programs' attrition and retention rates. The problem addressed in this study was students' disengagement with learning in asynchronous online nursing courses. The bioecological…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Learner Engagement, Nursing Education
Peer reviewedLynn B. McCool – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024
In a case study involving three asynchronous online professional writing courses, this research investigates students' abilities to establish a social presence and build team cohesion via collaborative, team-based writing projects. Using the Community of Inquiry (COI) framework, this study is situated in the understanding that teaching and…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Group Unity, Online Courses, Communities of Practice
Christina Ann Levicky Townley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The rapid proliferation of online learning in higher education has accentuated the need for a deeper understanding of attentional distractions that affect learners. This study explored how doctoral students experience and manage attentional distractions in asynchronous online learning environments. Drawing on the Community of Inquiry framework,…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Neurosciences, Equal Education
Maryam Mohammad Zadeh; Luke J. Prendergast; Jonathan D. Tew; Daniel Beneroso-Vallejo – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Students' perceptions towards synchronous and asynchronous online delivery modes of three engineering courses, in a large UK university is conceptualised, inspired by the Community of Inquiry theoretical framework. Using a qualitative methodology, 76 written student narratives were analysed. An overwhelming focus on the elements that helped them…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Electronic Learning
Wanli Xing; Hai Li; Taehyun Kim; Wangda Zhu; Yukyeong Song – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Although researchers recognize the importance of discussing support for math learning within online learning communities, there is a lack of relevant network classifying methods and analyses at the group level to understand the behavioral differences between groups with varying levels of activity, including their mathematical literacies. In this…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Group Discussion, Communities of Practice
Claire Major – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
Online courses are gaining importance in higher educationinstitutions, leading scholars to explore how individuals learn in this context and how developing an online community can support their learning. This research examines a graduate-level online course focused on college and university teaching, structured around a social learning perspective…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Graduate Study, Teacher Education
Schane D. Coker; Cory J. Wicker; Tammy M. Rutland; Myrian Herlle; Jason K. Styles; Joseph D. Martinez – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2023
This Writers' Forum piece addresses the importance and impact of community within the graduate experience through inception and evolution of a virtual writing group by six doctoral students attending geographically distant universities. By acknowledging relevant academic literature and sharing our experiences as best practices, we propose that…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Communities of Practice, Cooperative Learning, Group Activities
Download full textHasani, Lintang Matahari; Santoso, Harry Budi; Junus, Kasiyah – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
The community of inquiry (CoI) framework describes a process for creating collaborative learning through three elements or presences: social, cognitive, and teaching. Despite its popularity among researchers and practitioners, use of the CoI model is limited to mapping instructional activities, which are yet to be developed into an interaction…
Descriptors: Design, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion
Susanna Calkins; Anna Conway; Tazin Daniels; Regina F. Frey; Donald L. Gillian-Daniel; Bennett Goldberg; Robin McC. Greenler; Lucas B. Hill; Sarah Chobot Hokanson; Vanessa Johnson-Ojeda; Tershia Pinder-Grover; Sara Armstrong; Diamond Buchanan; Diane Codding; Schnaude Dorizan; Noah Green; Ivan A. Hernandez; Lisa Himelman; Tim Immelman; Omari W. Keeles; Haley Lewis; SuYeong (Sophie) Shin; Veronica Womack; Sara E. Woods; Alessandra M. York – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
The authors developed a free online course that centers learning about identity, power, positionality, and privilege to support inclusive teaching for STEM faculty and future faculty. Instructors across all institution types, including community college and 2-year, regional and comprehensive, and public and private research universities, utilized…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, STEM Education, Faculty Development
Andre, Maverick; Mello, Rafael Ferreira; Nascimento, Andre; Lins, Rafael Dueire; Gasevic, Dragan – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2021
Social presence is an essential construct of the well-known Community of Inquiry (CoI) model, which is created to support design, facilitation, and analysis of asynchronous online discussions. Social presence focuses on the extent to which participants of online discussions can see each other as "real persons" in computer-mediated…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Interpersonal Relationship, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
Lintang Matahari Hasani; Kasiyah Junus; Lia Sadita; Tsukasa Hirashima; Yusuke Hayashi – Online Learning, 2025
Online collaborative learning (OCL) based on the community of inquiry (CoI) framework is often implemented in the form of an online discussion activity for teaching subjects that require learners to revise their understandings and invent ways to solve problems. However, implementing OCL is challenging due to the difficulty of fostering…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Inquiry, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
Ho, Lauren Lum – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The community of inquiry (COI) framework is a theoretical and practical model for creating deep, meaningful online learning experiences through three essential and interconnected elements: teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence. Asynchronous online discussions (AODs) are the typical communication medium in a COI; therein, a…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion
Linda Lopez-George – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Higher education is experiencing an era of exponential growth in online doctoral programs and heightened accountability to stakeholders. In this dynamic landscape, the need to improve persistence for online doctoral students, estimated to be 30% to 40%, is imperative. Research has demonstrated that isolation and lack of belonging are contributing…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Social Isolation, Online Courses, Doctoral Students
Amy L. Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this study, I identified, implemented, and evaluated an appropriate solution set to improve the quality of asynchronous online training (i.e., eLearning) project intake at a research site in a government agency. The current project intake mechanism left eLearning production teams without sufficient information to move forward with educational…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Public Agencies, Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication
Kerrigan, John; Andres, Debbie – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2022
Many undergraduate and graduate courses have been recently converted to fully remote offerings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even within the remote structure, courses vary in their frequency of synchronous and asynchronous meetings. Fostering collaboration through students' idea-sharing and supporting their learning is especially challenging in…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion Groups
