The Community of Inquiry

The Community of Inquiry, or other similar frameworks, have likely assisted you as you developed your educational experiences ~ f2f, online, and | or hybrid. While Inclusive Design or UDL is the overarching framework for design and development in its entirely, 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 act as more of a step-by-step action plan when organizing and building content.

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 and Teaching presences into the learners’ experience bringing course resources themselves into 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 areas to inject their creativity to create the most engaging teaching and learning experiences.

This short reference book’s aim is to present ideas to encourage a united and consistent layout for your content and to provide some examples of how to optimize the creation of modules for common course | concepts within a program.