Community of Inquiry: An instructional approach to promote collaborative learning in blended learning

Abstract

Combining online learning with traditional face-to-face learning, teacher can overcome the defects of the single learning model and create conditions for the learners to carry out collaborative learning in blended environment. However, the traditional learning mode has also been changed, and learners face many challenges to adapt to it. This study takes "Frontier of educational technology" as a case, and uses the Community of Inquiry framework as the research instrument to carry out descriptive analysis. The results show that collaborative learning is effective, but there are still some problems such as lacking of sense of belonging, lacking of teachers' help and practical knowledge. This study explains how to use the CoI framework to analyze to verify the effectiveness of learning in blended learning, which can provide some reference for the related research.