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The Necessity of Preparing Teacher Candidates to Teach Online CHAPTER 6

A Theoretical Framework
for Online Teaching and Learning

As colleges and schools of education focus on how to provide a curriculum for
teacher preparation that includes training in online instruction, one theoretical
model could prove beneficial. Decades after its first appearance, a frequently refer-
enced model relevant to online learning is Community of Inquiry (CoI) (see Figure
6.1). In this framework, teachers create deep and meaningful learning experiences
through the interplay of three interdependent elements or presences: the social,
the cognitive, and the teaching. These presences exist within the interactions of
teachers and their learners (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 1999).

Community of Inquiry

Supporting
Social Presence Discourse Cognitive Presence

Educational
Experience
Setting Selecting
Climate Content

Teaching Presence

Communication Medium

Figure 6.1 Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework. Reprinted from The Internet and Higher
Education, 2(2–3), D. Randy Garrison, Terry Anderson, Walter Archer, Critical Inquiry in a
Text-Based Environment: Computer Conferencing in Higher Education, Page 19, Copyright
1999, with permission from Elsevier.

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