In 2014, I was honoured to be invited (with my wife Susan) to be a visiting scholar at Beijing Normal University (BNU). BNU is arguably the preeminent research university in […]
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Category: Community of Inquiry
Emergency Distance Education
Each day brings news of more cancellations of social events. In many areas schools have closed and it seems as likely as not, that many campus based schools will be […]
New Book from AUPress – An Online Doctor
I was pleased to receive in the post a hard copy of a new book in the Issues in Distance Education book series, for which I continue to serve as […]
What the FOLC is new in this article?
Sorry, but I couldn’t resist spoofing, in the post title, the unfortunate sound of the acronym for the “new” model proposed in this article. Now, I’ve got it out of […]
The Enigma of Interaction
I’ve been fascinated by the role of interaction all of my career as both a student, a researcher and a teacher. Michael Moore’s famous article details the role of the ‘big […]
A Fourth Presence for the Community of I...
The Community of Inquiry has emerged as the most widely referenced (the seminal 1999 article approaches 3,000 citations) and arguably the most widely used model for constructivist based e-learning design […]