%0	Book Section
%A	Heilporn,  Géraldine
%A	Lakhal,  Sawsen
%B	The Design of Digital Learning Environments: Online and Blended Applications of the Community of Inquiry
%B	The Design of Digital Learning Environments: Online and Blended Applications of the Community of Inquiry
%B	The Design of Digital Learning Environments: Online and Blended Applications of the Community of Inquiry
%D	2024
%E	Cleveland-Innes,  Martha F.
%E	Stenbom,  Stefan
%E	Garrison,  D. Randy
%I	Routledge
%P	133–151
%R	10.4324/9781003246206-10
%T	The Community of Inquiry in blended synchronous designs
%U	http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003246206-10
%X	Blended synchronous courses are characterized by students attending the same session both face-to-face and via digital technologies. Challenges have been identified when it comes to establishing and sustaining a shared community among all participants in these contexts. This chapter reports applying the Community of Inquiry theoretical framework in a program where students living close to the university attend face-to-face, while remote students attend the sessions synchronously online. The principles of collaboration and co-construction of knowledge are transformed into guiding principles that foster all students’ integration and equal engagement in a blended, synchronous, community of inquiry.
%@	9781003246206