Investigating the dynamic relationships among the indicators of the Community of Inquiry model in blended learning

Author

Mirabolghasemi, Marva ; Iahad, N.A. ; Yadegaridehkordi, Elaheh

Author_Institution

Univ. Teknol. Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

23-24 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The dynamic relationships among teaching presence, cognitive presence, and social presence in Community Of Inquiry (COI) model in blended learning are discussed in this paper. This research offers an opportunity to find out the relationships among presences in COI model in a blended learning. The respondents of this research use Course Management System (CMS) and social network in addition to face to face learning. The researchers used a set of questionnaire to find the relationships among three presences based on the COI model. Through statistical analysis using path analysis by multiple regression analysis teaching presence has a significance impact on sustaining social and cognitive presence in the case study.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; regression analysis; social networking (online); teaching; blended learning; cognitive presence; community-of-inquiry model; course management system; face-to-face learning; multiple regression analysis; path analysis; social network; social presence; statistical analysis; teaching presence; Analysis of variance; Collaboration; Communities; Education; Face; Predictive models; Social network services; cognitive presence; community of inquiry model; course management system; social network; social presence; teaching presence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research and Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-295-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICRIIS.2011.6125701

Filename

6125701