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Community of Inquiry in an Online Undergraduate Information Technology Course - Lim Hwee Ling, JITE
The Community of Inquiry (COI) theoretical framework suggests that successful higher education experiences are supported by the presence and interaction of cognitive, social and teaching elements. Since the COI model has been widely used for examining quality of asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) online learning educational interactions, its applicability to synchronous CMC interactions is relatively unknown. Moreover, as the model’s coding scheme was mainly designed for analyzing online learning asynchronous discussions, it is more sensitive to longer postings than the shorter and more discursive exchanges present in online synchronous (chat) discourse. This paper presents a case study on the instructional application of online learning synchronous interaction in a distance IT undergraduate course from a sociocultural constructivist perspective.
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