Using Communities of Inquiry Online to Perform Tasks of Higher Order Learning

Abstract

In this research the community of inquiry model is used as an analytical framework, along with quantitative content analysis and social network analysis, in order to understand how social and cognitive presence and group structure are affected by type of learning task and social networks. Discussion forums were employed focusing on three types of tasks: analyzing, evaluating, and creating. Over a period of three academic years, a total of 96 discussion forums were analyzed. Results show how social and cognitive presence, are affected by social group structure and centrality of coordinators, depending of type of learning task.

Effect of Cooperative Learning Instruction and Blogs on Apprehension of Intercultural Communication

“…The findings of the study align with those of Salazar and Agüero (2016) and Tirado-Morueta et al. (2018) that have indicated that intercultural communication competence is a necessity for constructing the interactions in the globalized community and the current economic and technological developments demand, ensuring intercultural communication skills.…”

“…The findings of the study align with those of Salazar and Agu¨ero (2016) and Tirado-Morueta et al (2018) that have indicated that intercultural communication competence is a necessity for constructing the interactions in the globalized community and the current economic and technological developments demand, ensuring intercultural communication skills. Furthermore, the study results corroborate those of Buchs et al (2017) that showed the effectiveness of cooperative learning as a dynamic method characterized by reduced anxiety, increased safety, freedom, and tolerance on improving learners' perceptions of learning.…”

“…Intercultural communication competence is a necessity for constructing the interactions in the globalized community and the current economic and technological developments demand, ensuring intercultural communication skills (Salazar & Agu¨ero, 2016). Research has indicated that the effective intercultural communication requires accepting and tolerating the cultural differences and the aspects influencing the interaction skills and behavior (Galante, 2015;Salazar & Agu¨ero, 2016;Tirado-Morueta, Maraver-L opez, & Hernando-G omez, 2018).…”