Communities of Inquiry

DojoIBL: Nurturing Communities of Inquiry

This paper presents and outlines the demonstration of DojoIBL, a web-based platform that aims at nurturing communities of inquiry by supporting communication and collaboration with emerging technological affordances. The manuscript briefly elaborates on the theoretical underpinning of DojoIBL and describes the functionalities supported. It concludes anticipating the follow up implementation whi...

Inquiry into ‘Communities of Inquiry’: knowledge, communication, presence, community

Learning in Communities of Inquiry: A Review of the Literature

The purpose of this study was to investigate learning in communities of inquiry (CoI) as the terms are defined in Garrison, Anderson, and Archer's (2000) framework. We identified 252 reports from 2000—2008 that referenced the framework, and we reviewed them using Ogawan and Malen's (1991) strategy for synthesizing multi-vocal bodies of literature. Of the 252 reports, 48 collected and analyzed d...

nQuire for the OpenScience Lab: Supporting Communities of Inquiry Learning

We have developed a platform to support Citizen Inquiry activities, based on the nQuire Toolkit software which was originally designed to support inquiry-based learning activities for schools. Citizen Inquiry is an innovative way for learners to engage in practical scientific activities, in which they take the role of self-regulated scientists in informal learning contexts. The platform will be...

A blended model for knowledge communities: embedding scaffolded inquiry

This study investigates a new approach that connects scaffolded inquiry activities within a knowledge building curriculum in secondary school science. We present a blended model that accounts for the flow of ideas within such a curriculum. Using a co-design methodology, researchers collaborated with veteran secondary science teachers to create engaging curriculum that provided the context for t...