OER Knowledge CloudBook ChapterTeaching Presence as a guide for productive design in online and blended learningTeaching Presence as a guide for productive design in online and blended learningShea, PeterCleveland-Innes, Martha F.Stenbom, StefanGarrison, D. RandyThis chapter reviews concepts in the Community of Inquiry theoretical framework to establish a foundation for exploring relationships between its components. The chapter presents research on the association of Teaching Presence with Cognitive Presence and summarizes conditions under which learners experience higher levels of Cognitive Presence through effective Teaching Presence. Additionally, recent work in the conceptualization of Social Presence is reviewed. Lessons for online and blended course design are extracted from these summaries of research and theory.2024Routledge68–8310.4324/9781003246206-6http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003246206-69781003246206http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003246206-6