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Revisiting the Community of Inquiry Framework: July 9-22, 2012 Facilitators:  Cindy Xin and  Sarah Haavind Since its original publication, Garrison, Anderson and Archer's (2000) "Critical Inquiry in A Text-based Environment: Computer Conferencing in Higher Education" has inspired a great many researchers and advanced our understanding of online learning and online education. In recent years, a number of reviews of the Community of Inquiry framework (CoI) have been published, including, Garrison and Arbaugh's (2007), Swan and Ice (2010). Cindy Xin, author of a recently-published critique (Xin, 2012) will be with us to explain her argument and, together with Sarah Haavind, facilitate a discussion reconsidering the CoI and its recent reviews and critiques. By provoking new thoughts and possibly constructing new theories and methods, we hope to further our understanding of online discussion in particular, and online education in general.

Stage 1 "findings revealed that there was a high level of interest in the use of ePortfolios in the context of higher education, particularly in terms of the potential to help students become reflective learners who are conscious of their personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, as well as to make their existing and developing skills more explicit."

Thanks to Meg for pointing this out on her Kwantlen Mahara Pilot page

"This e-Portfolio has been completed in partial fulfillment of the Graduate Certificate of Higher Education at Australian Catholic University during 2009."

This page introduces findings from Meg Goodine's examination of numerous case studies in comparison with broader post-secondary electronic portfolio research. "While not a silver bullet, with careful planning and attention to key questions, there is strong evidence that eportfolios can help students more authentically demonstrate what they have learned and connect this learning to their lives beyond our institutions." (Abstract, ¶4, retrieved 2010.06.07)

from blog page corresponding to "a similar site... [created with] a dedicated, open source eportfolio application" (Eportfolios: Introduction, ¶1, 2010.01.05; retrieved 2010.06.07).