Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation entitled Using the CoI Framework to Assess the Efficacy of New Technologies by Phil Ice and Jason Dom.  About 18 in attendance.  Presentation was descent. Main points include:

• Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework
  • Turns out to be a very academic survey I believe administered to students to assess the effacacy post-implementation of a newly applied technology.
• Learning is
  • Social presence
    • Affective expression
    • Open communication
    • Group cohesion (difficult to achieve in the 8- or 10-week course format)
  • Cognitive presence
    • triggering event (sense of puzzlement)
    • exploration (sharing information & ideas)
    • integration (connecting ideas)
    • resolution (synthesiing & applying new ideas)
  • Teaching presence
    • design and organization
    • facilitation
    • direct instruction
• CoI Survey (very research jargon-laidened discussion)
  • Items
    • 9 social presence items
    • 12 cognitive presence items
    • 13 teaching presence items
  • Arbaugh, Cleveland-Innes, Diaz, Garison, Ice, Richardson, Shea & Swan, 2008
  • Used survey to evaluate student perception of technologies:
    • Enhancement in perception of feedback when audio was used was found to be statistically significant
    • Increased use of multimedia when using cloud-based word processors than MS Word
• Sadly, way too academic, statistical, and research jargon for me to understand all of it, but the bottom line is a potentially useful tool.