Developing a Learning Community Online

• Research suggests that the most successful online courses supported the development of a sense of community
• Communication is the building material of a community and thus is key in an online course.

• Community of Inquiry Model (audio)
• Community of Inquiry Model recorded presentation (start slide 4)

• Three types of interaction
  • student-content
  • student-student
  • student-instructor

Additional Resources

• Community of Inquiry Website
• Original article on Community of Inquiry: Critical inquiry in a text-based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education