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The term metaverse appeared for the first time in a novel published in 1992. Since the early 2000s, researchers have started to use this term to refer to digital technologies for learners to interact with other users ...

Posted July 8, 2025

ON THE NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL PRESENCE IN ONLINE COURSE DISCUSSIONS

Swan, Karen; Shih, Li Fang

“Social presence,” the degree to which participants in computer-mediated communication feel affectively connected one to another, has been shown to be an important factor in student satisfaction and success in ...

Posted July 8, 2025

Using Peer Teams to Lead Online Discussions

Rourke, Liam; Anderson, Terry

This study investigated an online course in which groups of four students were used to lead online discussions. The teams were examined for their ability to bring instructional design, discourse facilitation, and direct ...

Posted July 8, 2025

Knowledge building in asynchronous discussion groups: Going beyond quantitative analysis

Schrire, Sarah

This contribution examines the methodological challenges involved in defining the collaborative knowledge-building processes occurring in asynchronous discussion and proposes an approach that could advance understanding ...

Posted July 5, 2025

Facilitating Cognitive Presence in Online Learning: Interaction Is Not Enough

Garrison, D. Randy; Cleveland-Innes, Martha

This study assessed the depth of online learning, with a focus on the nature of online interaction in four distance education course designs. The Study Process Questionnaire was used to measure the shift in students' ...

Posted July 5, 2025

Creating cognitive presence in a blended faculty development community

Vaughan, Norman; Garrison, D. Randy

The focus of this study was to understand how a blended learning approach can support the inquiry process (cognitive presence) in a faculty development context. The findings from this study indicate that there are ...

Posted July 5, 2025

A study to investigate the impact of a blended learning teaching approach to teach pharmacy law

Nazar, Hamde; Omer, Usmaan; Nazar, Zachariah; Husband, Andy

Objective To describe the implementation and assess the effect of a blended learning approach to teach pharmacy law. Methods Twenty didactic pharmacy law lectures were redeveloped to 9 h of flipped classroom ...

Posted July 4, 2025

Exploring Social Communication in Computer Conferencing

Rourke, Liam; Anderson, Terry

This study explores the relationship between asynchronous, text-based forms of social communication and students' perceptions of the social climate of computer conferences. A 21-item questionnaire was administered to 74 ...

Posted July 3, 2025

Generative AI-driven personalization of the Community of Inquiry model: enhancing individualized learning experiences in digital classrooms

Anderson, Jeffrey E.; Nguyen, Carlin A.; Moreira, Gerardo

Purpose – This paper explores the integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, focusing on how GenAI can dynamically personalize online ...

Posted June 4, 2025

Exploring the community of inquiry framework in higher education: a bibliometric analysis

Rawal, Aarti Pushp

This article presents a bibliometric analysis of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework in Higher Education (HE) for the period 1990–2024. Using the PRISMA framework for systematic data retrieval, 280 articles from ...

Posted January 31, 2025

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