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Monday, April 11, 2005
Exemplary Online Educators: Creating a Community of Inquiry - Beth PERRY and Margaret EDWARDS, TOJDE
Within most disciplines there are those who are recognized as being exceptionally competent practitioners. These people are sometimes called exceptional or exemplary. In the educational realm, students remember these individuals at the teachers who most positively influenced their learning. The commonality of these exemplary practitioners is that they do their work in a remarkable way and their teaching strategies and interpersonal interactions are regarded by their students as highly successful. Although there has been a “virtual explosion of online education” (Thiele, 2003) the literature remains lacking in terms of studies focused on what makes some online educators more effective than others. This paper outlines the initial findings of a qualitative study that asked students who study online their perspectives on why they recall certain online educators as outstanding. The “Community of Inquiry” model developed by Garrison, Anderson and Archer provides a framework for analysis of the findings of this study (n.d.). Specifically, the data reveals that exemplary online teachers create a community of inquiry that is comprised of a strong social, cognitive and teaching presence.
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