Category: online learning
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Who am I and What Keeps Me Going? Profiling the Distance Learning Student in Higher Education (Baxter, 2012)
The research highlights the importance of student retention and progression in higher education, particularly within the distance learning sector. The research outlines key factors that contribute to student success, including expectations, support, feedback, and involvement. While previous studies have focused on reasons for student dropout, this small-scale qualitative project at the Open University UK examines…
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The First Decade of the Community of Inquiry Framework: A Retrospective (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2010)
This reflective paper overviews how the foundational Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework was developed at the turn of the millennium, explicitly outlining the methodology used to develop this influential framework for engaged online learning. Belonging is identified as a factor in the social presence element of the three part CoI framework, but the paper is…