Full Description
The Design of Digital Learning Environments provides comprehensive guidelines for creating and delivering high-quality online and blended learning experiences in higher education. With increasing numbers of students engaged in partially or fully digital education, graduate students preparing for design, development, or faculty roles need fresh, practical applications of cutting-edge research and theory. This textbook uses the Community of Inquiry framework, an influential and invaluable pedagogical model focused on deep learning, to aid educators in forging meaningful, collaborative connections with students engaged in digitally supported multi-modal learning in colleges and universities, MOOCs, and lifelong learning initiatives. Across five parts, the book covers the basic structure, concepts, terminology, and history of the Community of Inquiry; principles for designing and delivering digital courses; design for specific course conditions; applications of learning activities guided by the framework; and current limitations and directions for further research.
Contents
1. Introduction to the Community of Inquiry theoretical framework 2. A Brief History of the Community of Inquiry Framework (A Personal Recollection) 3. Evidence-based collaborative and constructivist online design and practice 4. Teaching Presence as a Guide for Productive Design in Online and Blended Learning 5. Design and facilitation to balance Social, Teaching, and Cognitive Presence 6. Fostering Student Self- and Co-regulation in a Community of Inquiry: Development of a Self-Assessment and Praxis Tool 7. The Community of Inquiry in blended synchronous designs 8. The Community of Inquiry in international and intercultural settings 9. Scaling the Community of Inquiry framework for MOOC design 10. Applying Community of Inquiry in Designing Higher Education Lifelong Learning Courses: The case of the BUFFL-project 11. Hands-on science learning using the Community of Inquiry framework 12. Strategies to Promote Cognitive Presence in Asynchronous Online Discussions: A 20-Year Systematic Review of Empirical Research 13. Digital meetings guided by the Community of Inquiry framework 14. The Community of Inquiry and Authentic Assessment: A Union of Flexibility and Purpose15. Conclusions and further directions
