Xin, C. (2012). A Critique of the Community of Inquiry Framework. The Journal of Distance Education, 26(1). Retrieved from http://www.jofde.ca/index.php/jde/article/view/755/1333
Thanks to Stephen Downes for pointing this paper out. Iām up to my eyeballs, processing data for my Community of Inquiry based MSc research, and could have missed this.
The Community of Inquiry model provides a framework for describing interactions within a community or classroom environment. It involves using textual analysis and coding of messages to interpret the type of interaction for each message ā whether it involves social, teaching, or cognitive components. As Iāve been coding the data for my thesis, Iāve been adding as many types of āpresencesā as are appropriate ā a message may include a number of things, indicating social, teaching and cognitive presences in a non-exclusive manner. Iām imagining each message having its own little Venn diagram for Social/Teaching/Cognitive component, as per the CoI model. Itās a simplification and abstraction, certainly, but looking at the coded output, I think itās still got a fair bit of fidelity to describe the interactions at a high level. In my data, Iām also adding coding to describe the type of content (links, images, attachments, embedded media, etcā¦) as well as how involved the message is (is it a simple one-liner? a 2 paragraph response? a multi-page essay?) ā and Iām thinking about how to include data on the timeline of the discussion (how rapid were the responses? staccato rapidfire conversation, or long drawn-out periods of silence?) Iām still thinking about how to represent that kind of data for an online discussion, but I think thereās something there, there.
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