Investigating the dynamic relationships among the indicators of the Community of Inquiry model in blended learning

Abstract

The dynamic relationships among teaching presence, cognitive presence, and social presence in Community Of Inquiry (COI) model in blended learning are discussed in this paper. This research offers an opportunity to find out the relationships among presences in COI model in a blended learning. The respondents of this research use Course Management System (CMS) and social network in addition to face to face learning. The researchers used a set of questionnaire to find the relationships among three presences based on the COI model. Through statistical analysis using path analysis by multiple regression analysis teaching presence has a significance impact on sustaining social and cognitive presence in the case study.