Exploring How a Community of Inquiry Model Can Support a Blended Learning Model

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• Exploring How a Community of Inquiry Model Can
  Support a Blended Learning Model
• Blended Classroom and eLearning Practice
  Conference
• Norm Vaughan
• nvaughan_at_mtroyal.ca

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Overview

• 1) Community of Inquiry Model
• 2) Visible Knowledge Mapping
• 3) Using Technology to Support a Blended
  Learning
• Inquiry Cycle
• 4) Examples
• 5) Resources

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Reflecting on Learning/Teaching
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Learning/Teaching
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Community of Inquiry Model

• Definition
• A critical community of learners, from an
  educational perspective, is composed of teachers
  and students transacting with the specific
  purposes of facilitating, constructing, and
  validating understanding, and of developing
  capabilities that will lead to further learning.
  Such a community encourages cognitive
  independence and social interdependence
  simultaneously.
• Randy Garrison Terry Anderson, E-Learning
  in the 21st Century A Framework for Research
  and Practice, 2003, p. 23.

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Community of Inquiry Model
Social Presence The ability of participants in a
community of inquiry to project themselves
socially and emotionally as real people
(i.e., their full personality), through the
medium of communication being used.
Cognitive Presence The extent to which learners
are able to construct and confirm meaning
through sustained reflection and discourse in a
critical community of inquiry.
Teaching Presence The design, facilitation and
direction of cognitive and social processes for
the purpose of realizing personally meaningful
and educationally worthwhile learning outcomes.
Garrison, Anderson and Archer (2000)
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Cognitive Presence
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Social Presence
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Teaching Presence
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Using Technology to Support Inquiry

• How can educational technology be used to support
  a community of inquiry model?
• Think
• Pair
• Share

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Visible Knowledge Map
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Using Technology to Support a Blended Learning
Inquiry Cycle

• Before class
• During class
• After class
• Next class

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Inquiry Cycle Before Class
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Pre-readings
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Self-assessment quizzes (knowledge probes)
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Inquiry Cycle During Class
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Quiz survey results
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Digital learning objects/resources
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Displaying assignments/student work
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Inquiry Cycle After Class
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Announcements
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Class email list
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Anonymous end of week survey
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Online discussion forums
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Online discussion student summaries
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Group project areas
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Opportunities for further exploration
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Inquiry Cycle Next Class
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Anonymous survey feedback
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Archive survey feedback
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Quiz survey feedback
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Questions, Comments, Discussion
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Resources

• Garrison, D.R. Anderson, T. (2003).
  E-Learning in the 21st Century A Framework for
  Research and Practice. London RoutledgeFalmer.
• Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T., Archer, W.
  (2000). Critical thinking in a text-based
  environment Computer conferencing in higher
  education. Internet and Higher Education, 11(2),
  1-14. http//www.atl.ualberta.ca/cmc/CTinTextEnvFi
  nal.pdf
• University of Wisconsin _at_ Milwaukee (2002).
  Hybrid Course Website. http//www.uwm.edu/Dept/LTC
  /hybrid.html/
• Novak, Greg (1999). Just-in-Time Teaching.
  http//webphysics.iupui.edu/jitt/what.html/
• Portland State University (2001). Classroom
  Assessment Techniques Examples.
• http//www.oaa.pdx.edu/CAE/cat.html

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Examples of web based tools to support
inquiry-based learning

• Before Class
• Communication
• Announcements section of your course web site
• Group email feature
• Pre-reading assignments
• MRC Library Internet Subject Guideshttp//libra
  ry.mtroyal.ca/indexisgs.htm
• MRC Library Online Journals and
  Resourceshttp//library.mtroyal.ca/indexarticles.
  htm
• MRC Subject Area - Instructional
  Librarianshttp//library.mtroyal.ab.ca/indexinfo.
  htm
• Digital learning objects
• Learning Object Repositorieshttp//www.mtroyal.ab
  .ca/adc/adc_learningobjects.htm
• Self assessment quizzes
• Assessment manager tools (e.g. Angel, Blackboard,
  WebCT)
• Anonymous surveys
• FAST (free assessment summary tool)
• http//www.getfast.ca

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Examples of web based tools to support
inquiry-based learning

• During Class
• Displaying quiz or survey results
• Online grade book results (for anonymous surveys)
• Overheads of information printed out from the
  Blackboard online grade book
• Displaying digital learning objects and resources
  
• Objects uploaded to the course web site and links
  to external learning object and resource sites
  (e.g. animations, video clips, PowerPoint
  presentations)
• Displaying assignments and student work
• Assignment folders within course site which
  contain the assignment handout, tutorial,
  resources and examples of past student work

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Examples of web based tools to support
inquiry-based learning

• After Class
• Anonymous feedback surveys
• Communication
• Announcements section of your course site for
  student to do list
• Group email feature for the student to do list
• Individual email feature for individual student
  questions or clarification (try to put common
  questions into a Frequently Asked Questions
  discussion forum)
• Online discussion forums to facilitate student
  moderated discussions
• Virtual classroom tools for synchronous sharing
  sessions among student groups
• Individual and Group Project Work
• Assignment folders within course site which
  contains the assignment handout, tutorial,
  resources and examples of past student work
• Groups work area within course management systems
  which contain communication tools (email,
  discussion forum, virtual chat) and a digital
  drop box for sharing documents
• Opportunities for further exploration
• External links section within Blackboard for
  enrichment resources