TEACHING A "CROWD"… WITH A COMMUNITY OF

INQUIRY MODEL?

João PazInstituto Piaget/Universidade Aberta

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Topics

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Context

Problem

Pedagogical Practice

Results

Balance

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Context

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One Teacher >200 estudantes

Curricular Unit online transversal to various courses (80% → 50% online)

40 h – 2 ECTS, 1º cycle of studies

Higher Education Institution with 5 years of experience in Online Education

LMS Moodle

Virtual community learning model

e-learning paradigms

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SOCIAL-CONSTRUTIVIST

Interacção student-student

Learning community

Facilitation

BEHAV-COGNITIVIST

Self-learning

Interaction with

contents (and

teacher)

Automatization

Problem

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𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 =𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑊𝑟𝑘𝑙𝑑

𝑁º 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠.x.y.z… ?

CommunityLearning

Model

OneTeacher

>200 students

Higher

Education

Institution with

5 years of

experience in

Online

Education

Curricular Unit

online

transversal to

various courses

Difficulties

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Context: student profile little experience in DE

Model scalability issues with implications in

Community building

Collaborative interactions

Teaching Presence quality

Teacher Workload

Pedagogical Practice

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Main Objectives

Develop conceptualization, problematization and

argumentation competencies

Audience

Students of a 3rd year Curricular Unit from various

courses in a single virtual class

Pedagogical Practice

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Strategies Small groups for production activities and forum debates

Online sharing and debate of accomplished produtcs of activities

Pedagogical Practice

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Online Activities

Quizzes

Debates in discussion forum bases on texto or multimédia

contents

Group work (with sharing, presentation and discussion)

Mindmaps building (with sharing, presentation and

discussion)

Evaluation (50% online activities - 50% final test)

Peer and teacher formative assessment

Teacher qualitative evaluation of online activities on the

go

Results of Community of Inquiry survey

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3,5 3,9

4,2

Response rate: 25%

Results

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Teaching Presence online

Strong Design and Organization

Limitiations in Facilitation of discourse and Direct

Instruction

Some Learning Regulation support arising from the

Community

Balance

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Reasonable level of overall quality

Interesting values of Teaching Presence perception from

students

Still high teacher workload

Diffculties in effective moderation of discussion fóruns by

the teacher

Uneven Student collaborative profile

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THANK YOU!

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