Facilitating the Community of Inquiry in a Large Online Introductory Astronomy Course

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Authors

Hien Nguyen, Natalia Kapli, Yu-hui Ching, Meltem Albayrak Dileo, The Pennsylvania State University, United States ; Kyu Yon Lim, Ewha Womans University, Korea (South) ; Barbara Grabowski, The Pennsylvania State University, United States ; Scott Miller, Sam Houston State University, United States

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Abstract

From the perspective of Garrison, Anderson and Archer (2000)’s Community of Inquiry framework, it is important that online learning facilitates social presence, teaching presence and cognitive presence in order to bring about meaningful learning. This may help online students feel less isolated, more engaged and motivated, and able to learn more meaningfully. However, it is not a simple task for online instructors to design online course activities that facilitate a community of inquiry. This paper looks at the relationship between the extent to which a large online introductory astronomy course supports a community of inquiry and students’ motivation towards the instructional materials as well as course performance. We also present implications and suggestions for facilitating the community of inquiry in this course, including how different existing online course activities may contribute to social presence, teaching presence and cognitive presence or can be redesigned to enhance these aspects.

Citation

Nguyen, H., Kapli, N., Ching, Y.h., Albayrak Dileo, M., Lim, K.Y., Grabowski, B. & Miller, S. (2008). Facilitating the Community of Inquiry in a Large Online Introductory Astronomy Course. In C. Bonk, M. Lee & T. Reynolds (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2008--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 3034-3039). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 6, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/30099.

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