When students assume the role of moderating and facilitating course activities.
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Using Student Facilitation and Interactive Tools Within and Beyond the LMS: Towards Creating an Authentic Community of Inquiry
Andrea Gregg (The Pennsylvania State University, USA), Hwei-Kit Chang (The Pennsylvania State University, USA), Yu Wang (The Pennsylvania State University, USA), Penny Ward (The Pennsylvania State University, USA), and Roy B. Clariana (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3292-8.ch008
Abstract
While dialogue remains a critical component to an online community of inquiry (CoI), challenges regarding engaged student participation persist. This chapter discusses an online graduate course, “Designing Learning Within Course Management Systems” (“Designing Learning”), in which student-student interaction is a key feature and a central component of nearly all of the student activities. This chapter highlights the core pedagogical concepts and theories, including CoI, that form the foundation for the “Designing Learning” course. It then demonstrates the integration of those concepts throughout course design elements, including student facilitation and the use of multiple platforms like VoiceThread and Google Docs for interaction including reflections on both the students' and instructors' experiences of this course. Recommendations are next provided so that the successes of this course can be applied to other online teaching and learning contexts. Lastly, further research directions are identified.