Revising and Validating the Community of Inquiry Instrument for MOOCs and other Global Online Courses
Globally, online course enrollments have grown, and English is often used as a lingua franca for instruction. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework can inform the creation of more supportive, interaction-rich online learning environments. However, the framework and its accompanying validated ins...
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| author | Jered Borup Joan Kang Shin Marvin G. Powell Anya S. Evmenova Woomee Kim |
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Globally, online course enrollments have grown, and English is often used as a lingua franca for instruction. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework can inform the creation of more supportive, interaction-rich online learning environments. However, the framework and its accompanying validated instrument were created in North America, limiting researchers’ ability to use the instrument in courses where participants have varying levels of English language proficiency. We revised the CoI instrument so it could be more easily read and understood by individuals whose native language is not English. Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA and CFA) on data obtained from global online courses and MOOCs, we found the revised instrument had good fit statistics once seven items were removed. This study expands the usability of the CoI instrument beyond the original and translated versions, and provides an example of adapting and validating an existing instrument for global courses.
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1f5a47e93d54a4aa8b20a3d4f7432932022-12-22T02:13:10ZengAthabasca University PressInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning1492-38312022-09-0123310.19173/irrodl.v23i2.6034Revising and Validating the Community of Inquiry Instrument for MOOCs and other Global Online Courses Jered Borup0Joan Kang Shin1Marvin G. Powell2Anya S. Evmenova3Woomee Kim4George Mason UniversityGeorge Mason UniversityGeorge Mason UniversityGeorge Mason UniversityGeorge Mason University Globally, online course enrollments have grown, and English is often used as a lingua franca for instruction. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework can inform the creation of more supportive, interaction-rich online learning environments. However, the framework and its accompanying validated instrument were created in North America, limiting researchers’ ability to use the instrument in courses where participants have varying levels of English language proficiency. We revised the CoI instrument so it could be more easily read and understood by individuals whose native language is not English. Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA and CFA) on data obtained from global online courses and MOOCs, we found the revised instrument had good fit statistics once seven items were removed. This study expands the usability of the CoI instrument beyond the original and translated versions, and provides an example of adapting and validating an existing instrument for global courses. https://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/6034Community of InquiryMOOCsglobal online coursesteachers of EnglishEnglish as a foreign language |
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| title | Revising and Validating the Community of Inquiry Instrument for MOOCs and other Global Online Courses |
| title_full | Revising and Validating the Community of Inquiry Instrument for MOOCs and other Global Online Courses |
| title_fullStr | Revising and Validating the Community of Inquiry Instrument for MOOCs and other Global Online Courses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Revising and Validating the Community of Inquiry Instrument for MOOCs and other Global Online Courses |
| title_short | Revising and Validating the Community of Inquiry Instrument for MOOCs and other Global Online Courses |
| title_sort | revising and validating the community of inquiry instrument for moocs and other global online courses |
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