Manageable Micro-Framing

The Community of Inquiry

The Community of Inquiry, or other similar frameworks, have likely assisted you as you developed your educational experiences. While Inclusive Design or UDL is the overarching framework for design and development in its entirety, employing the aspects of Community of Inquiry’s Cognitive Presence and its focus on cognitive development plots the actual course.

Inclusive Design or UDL guides your approach and thinking, while the four phases embedded in CoI and its Cognitive Presence act as more of a step-by-step action plan when organizing and building content.

Venn diagram for Community of Inquiry showing three, overlapping circles of the Affective, Cognitive, and Teaching presences.
Community of Inquiry Framework adapted by Giulia Forsythe and in the Public Domain (CC0)

And while learners working with course resources to prepare or reinforce in-class material has traditionally been an independent and mainly cognitive experience (blue area above), recent enhancements can inject the Affective (formerly Social) and Teaching presences into the learner’s experience – all of which combines to form the sweet spot of “Educational Experience”. Our Open at Scale projects intend to optimize the latest developments, allowing our subject matter experts (SME) across all domains and disciplines to use their creativity to create the most engaging teaching and learning experiences, while still providing a consistent look and feel to all Open at Scale resources.

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