Research Guides: Universal Design for Learning: Community of Inquiry

Community of Inquiry Model

The Community of Inquiry (COI) model describes how learning takes place for a group of individual learners through the educational experience that occurs at the intersection of social, cognitive, and teaching presence.

Social Presence is the ability of participants to project their individual personalities in order to identify and communicate with the community and develop interpersonal relationships.
Cognitive Presence is the extent to which learners are able to construct and confirm meaning through sustained reflection and discourse.
Teaching Presence is the design, facilitation, and direction of the social and cognitive processes for the purpose of realizing the relevant learning.

Books

Teaching in Blended Learning Environments (Ebook) by Norman D. Vaughan; Martha Cleveland-Innes; D. Randy Garrison
Publication Date: 2013
This book provides a coherent framework in which to explore the transformative concept of blended learning. Blended learning can be defined as the organic integration of thoughtfully selected and complementary face-to-face and online approaches and technologies.
Learning from Each Other (Ebook) by Michele Lee Kozimor-King (Editor); Jeffrey Chin (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018
Conceived for both new and experienced faculty at community colleges, four-year institutions, and research-intensive universities, the aim is to cultivate engagement amongst students and deepening their understanding of the content.

Articles

20 Years of the Community of Inquiry Framework
The Community of Inquiry framework is a collaborative-constructivist process model that describes the essential elements of a successful online higher education learning experience. This history column entry briefly describes the 20 years of progress in the framework. The column is divided into two decades, first, explaining the establishment of the framework from 2000-2009. Second, discussing the use of the instrument to measure the dimensions of the Community of Inquiry and criticism to the framework from 2010-2019. Finally, current work and future directions are provided.
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.This article will introduce the CoI framework by way of a literature review focusing on CoI instructional strategies.
Developing a Community of Inquiry in a Face-to-Face Class
This article demonstrates applying an online learning framework called the Community of Inquiry and an organizational architecture of matrixed teams has worked in a face-to-face capstone class and extended those boundaries.
Exploring a Community of Inquiry Supported by a Social Media-Based Learning Environment
This paper explores the learning community created in such a social media-based educational environment, using an extended version of CoI, which includes four components: cognitive presence, social presence, teaching presence and learning presence.
Measuring Presence: A Review of Research Using the Community of Inquiry Instrument
This systematic review provides a summary of studies on teaching, social, and cognitive presences in the community of inquiry (CoI) model using the CoI instrument in a higher education setting since its development in 2008 by Arbaugh et al.
Online Education Research Adopting the Community of Inquiry Framework: A Systematic Review
The purpose of this systematic review was to offer an overview of issues and trends related to online teaching and learning in higher education. In this review, the authors focus on the Community of Inquiry framework -- which is the most widely used framework for online education research.
Strategic Tooling: Technology for Constructing a Community of Inquiry
The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework describes online learning as a collaborative process supported by social presence, teaching presence, and cognitive presence, which work together to facilitate critical thinking and learning.
Time Well Spent: Creating a Community of Inquiry in Blended First-Year Writing Courses
This study examines whether blended first-year writing courses can function as Communities of Inquiry and analyzes whether the amount of time spent online impacts the extent to which students positively perceive teaching presence, social presence, and cognitive presence.
Community of Inquiry and Emotional Presence
The article first presents a conceptualization of emotional presence in terms of emotional intelligence. Second, it discusses the relationship of emotional presence to teaching presence and how teaching presence may foster emotional presence in learners. Finally, how emotional presence in teaching presence may foster social presence and cognitive presence in learners and lead to successful learning is presented.
Emotional Presence in Building an Online Learning Community among Non-Traditional Graduate Students
This study explored non-traditional graduate students' perceived emotional presence that emerged in participants' online learning experiences.
Revising the Community of Inquiry Framework for the Analysis of One-to-One Online Learning Relationships
This paper examines a special case of community of inquiry consisting of only one learner and one instructor. Together they engage in an online coaching discourse to form a relationship of inquiry.

Web Resources

Purdue University: Community of Inquiry Frameworks
Community of Inquiry Framework resource from Purdue University's Repository for Online Teaching and Learning.
Community of Inquiry Theory
A module on the Community of Inquiry (CoI) theory from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Module outcome: Apply the Community of Inquiry framework to set the stage for a collaborative and supportive environment in your online class.
Community of Inquiry Framework
This interactive website is designed to collect published research about Community of Inquiry (CoI) and discuss these publications with interested researchers and practitioners.

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