A Review of Literature on the Community of Inquiry Framework

Abstract

The purpose of the current study was to critically analyze the learning in community of inquiry (CoI) framework. In the year 2000 Garrison, Anderson and Archer introduced CoI framework in order to find solutions to reduce the gaps in online learning and the framework that they have introduced has become the most referenced framework of study in online education so far. According to them, a very satisfactory education takes place within a community of inquiry which consists of teachers and students. Further they assume the learning takes place as a result of interaction among social, cognitive and teaching presence (Garrison, Anderson and Archher, 2000). Though the CoI framework has shaped many studies of e-learning in higher education, it is highly recommended that much more research work should be done on this framework to clarify the mounting body of disconfirming evidence.