Presentation at ECER 2014 Porto
The Community of Inquiry (CoI) model and framework is one of the most researched models of online education since the last decade. It states that on online educational collaborative constructivist experience is a product of three elements of the learning community: Social Presence, Cognitive Presence and Teaching Presence. Trying to account for the occurrence of interactions expressing learners' self-regulation processes, a forth element has been proposed: Learning Presence. However, this pretension for a forth Presence has been contested by other researchers that are developing a construct to measure Metacognition. They claim that in a CoI there is not only self-regulated learning but also social-regulated learning and their metacognitive construct addresses both these dimensions of learning regulation but has not a Presence status.
We will present the debate about this eventual forth CoI Presence and the research framework to study individual and social processes of learning regulation in an online course. Through content analysis of interactions and students' interviews we will compare evidence from individual and social learning regulation to find which is predominant.
Self-Regulated Learning and Social-Regulated Learning in a Community of Inquiry
1. Self-Regulated Learning and Social-
Regulated Learning in a Community
of Inquiry
João Paz
Fernando Luís Santos
Instituto Piaget
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2. Topics
• Introduction
• The Community of Inquiry framework
• Social, Cognitive and Teaching Presence
• A place for Learning Regulation in the CoI?
• A study project: Learning Regulation in a Community of
Inquiry
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3. The Community of Inquiry
framework
• Learning in a virtual community
– Social Structure
– Social Learning
– Virtual Learning Environment
– Written and asynchronous interaction (discussion
foruns)
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4. The Community of Inquiry
framework
• Community of Inquiry
– Educational Community
– Collaborative and critical
– Higher-Order Learning Outcomes
– Social Interdepence but Cognitive Independence
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6. A place for Learning
Regulation in the CoI?
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SRL
CoI
7. A place for Learning
Regulation in the CoI?
• 2010-13 Shea et al
– Study interactions in whole courses
– Interactions in group work not codable by the CoI
framework (learner self- and co-regulatory
processes)
– Student ≠ Teacher role
– Extend the model : Learning Presence
– Coding Scheme of LP based on Zimmerman SRL
phases: Forethought, Performance (Monitoring
and Strategy Use) and Reflection
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8. A place for Learning
Regulation in the CoI?
Shea, P. et al. (2012). Learning presence:
Additional research on a new conceptual
element within the Community of Inquiry
(CoI) framework. The Internet and Higher
Education, 15(2), 89–95.
doi:10.1016/j.iheduc.2011.08.002
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9. A place for Learning
Regulation in the CoI?
• 2011-13 Garrison & Akyol
– Self-Directed Learning and Metacognition already
in CoI (2003)
– Not only Self- but mainly Co-Regulation of
Learning
– Student ↔Teacher all actors exert 3 presences
– Place for a Metacognition (including regulation)
Construct but not a forth Presence
– Metacognition construct (Knowledge of Cognition,
Monitoring of Cognition, Regulation of Cognition)
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10. A place for Learning
Regulation in the CoI?
Akyol, Z., & Garrison, R. (2011).
Assessing metacognition in an
online community of inquiry.
The Internet and Higher
Education, 14(3), 183–190.
doi:10.1016/j.iheduc.2011.01.0
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11. A place for Learning
Regulation in the CoI?
Issues
• Regulated Learning or Regulation of Learning?
• Co-Regulation → (Distributed) Teaching
Presence?
• How ≠ (Stds) Teaching Presence /Collaborative
Learning ?
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12. A study project: Learning
Regulation in a CoI
• "We must move beyond self-regulated student
behavior in a socially shared learning environment.
The basic issue is that we must consider the dynamic
relationship of self and co-regulation of learning
concurrently."
Garrison, R., & Akyol, Z. (2013). Toward the development
of a metacognition construct for communities of inquiry.
The Internet and Higher Education, 17, 84–89.
doi:10.1016/j.iheduc.2012.11.005
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13. A study project: Learning
Regulation in a CoI
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• Some Previous Studies
– Indicators related to SRL at a social level were more
frequent than indicators showing SRL at individual
level
Dettori, G. & Persico, D. (2008). Using
Interaction Analysis to Reveal Self-Regulated
Learning in Virtual Communities. In P.
Dillenbourg & M. Specht (Eds.), Third European
Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning,
EC-TEL 2008. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-
87605-2_1
14. A study project: Learning
Regulation in a CoI
• Case study of a CoI course
• Research questions
– Which form of Learning Regulation is predominant?
– How do SRL and CoRL evolve along the course?
– How do SRL and CoRL relate to each other?
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• Tools
– Content Analysis of Interactions
– Interviews
15. Thank you!
João Paz
http://about.me/joaopaz
Fernando Luís Santos
http://goo.gl/PVo4qL
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