The Design of Digital Learning Environments

Martha F. Cleveland-Innes is Professor in Graduate Education Programs at Athabasca University, Canada. She is an award-winning researcher and author in the field of distance and blended higher education. Stefan Stenbom is Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He is one of the leading scholars in the third generation of Community of Inquiry researchers. D. Randy Garrison is Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has published extensively on teaching and learning in distance, higher, and adult education contexts.

1. Introduction to the Community of Inquiry theoretical framework 2. A Brief History of the Community of Inquiry Framework (A Personal Recollection) 3. Evidence-based collaborative and constructivist online design and practice 4. Teaching Presence as a Guide for Productive Design in Online and Blended Learning 5. Design and facilitation to balance Social, Teaching, and Cognitive Presence 6. Fostering Student Self- and Co-regulation in a Community of Inquiry: Development of a Self-Assessment and Praxis Tool 7. The Community of Inquiry in blended synchronous designs 8. The Community of Inquiry in international and intercultural settings 9. Scaling the Community of Inquiry framework for MOOC design 10. Applying Community of Inquiry in Designing Higher Education Lifelong Learning Courses: The case of the BUFFL-project 11. Hands-on science learning using the Community of Inquiry framework 12. Strategies to Promote Cognitive Presence in Asynchronous Online Discussions: A 20-Year Systematic Review of Empirical Research 13. Digital meetings guided by the Community of Inquiry framework 14. The Community of Inquiry and Authentic Assessment: A Union of Flexibility and Purpose15. Conclusions and further directions