Community of inquiry developed through cloud computing for MIS courses

Author

Eteokleous, N. ; Ktoridou, Despo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Primary Educ., Frederick Univ., Limassol, Cyprus

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 April 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Based on an earlier work, authors suggest that in higher education setting, improved learning experience for lecturers and students is possible through a meaningful collaboration, communication and authoring aiming the construction of knowledge by students [4]. The current work investigates the implementation of inquiry-based learning and the development of community of inquiry (CoI) through Google Applications for education in a higher education setting. More specifically, it provides evidence on how does cloud learning community is developed through the three presences of CoI: Teaching Presence (TP), Social Presence (SP) and Cognitive Presence (CP) for three Management Information Systems (MIS) courses. The CoI survey instrument was used to quantitatively examine the development of a CoI within the educational setting.

Keywords

cloud computing; computer aided instruction; educational courses; further education; management information systems; social networking (online); teaching; Google applications; cloud computing; cognitive presence; community of inquiry; higher education setting; inquiry-based learning; learning experience; lecturers; management information systems courses; social presence; students; teaching presence; Cloud computing; Collaboration; Communities; Educational institutions; Google; cloud computing higher education; community of inquiry; google applications for education;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Marrakech

ISSN

2165-9559

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1457-2

Electronic_ISBN

2165-9559

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201010

Filename

6201010