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This can apply to all teachers and all students. Interestingly, the article aligns with our learning on cognitive presence (as well as teaching presence). Triggering and exploration are the beginning parts of any journey.

An educational community of inquiry is a group of individuals who collaboratively engage in purposeful critical discourse and reflection to construct personal meaning and confirm mutual understanding. The Community of Inquiry theoretical framework represents a process of creating a deep and meaningful (collaborative-constructivist) learning experience through the development of three interdependent elements - social, cognitive and teaching presence.

October 22, 2012 Targeted Skill Development: Building Blocks to Better Learning By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog Teachers have much to teach these days. There's the standard content knowledge students need to take from their courses, all the while the amount of new information in all our fields continues to grow exponentially.

September 24, 2012 Boosting a First-Time Online Adult Student's Self-Esteem By: Dawn M. Kaiser, PhD in Online Education As professors, we all have seen first-time students who are so nervous that they do not even know where to begin, let alone how to achieve their educational goals.

There are some great tips for alternate presentation ideas -- different ways to establish social presence in your online classes!

Refresh and renew with the CoI

via Inside Higher Ed

This is an excellent article, Angela. Everyone who teaches should read it!

Glad it was useful!

A great article to preview before the guest speaker session on Cognitive Presence.

via Faculty Focus