Development of the Community of Inquiry Procedures for Web-Based Instruction

Abstract

The purposes of this study were 1) to develop procedures of community of inquiry for Web-based instruction and 2) to study the effects in the use of the developed community of inquiry. The study consisted of 2 phases, development procedures of community of inquiry for Web-based instruction and implementation procedures of community of inquiry. The samples were 2 groups of first-year students enrolled in an Information Technology course during the second semester of the academic year 2012 at Suandusit Rajabhat University. The first group had 30 students, whose learning activities were based on the community of inquiry for Web-based instruction. The second group had 32 students, who learning activities were based on Webbased instruction only. Data were analyzed by using of percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test statistic and content analysis. The results finding were summarized as follows 1) The procedures consisted of 4 stages: the defining and designing, the development and demonstration, the declaration, and the detection. The experts agreed with the procedures at the “most appropriate” level. 2) The students whose learning activities were based on the community of inquiry for Web-based instruction posed higher achievement than those based only on the Web-based instruction at .01 level of significance. 3) The students whose learning activities were based on the community of inquiry for Web-based instruction had high participation in the community of inquiry for Web-based instruction. 4) The students had high level of satisfaction in the utilization of the community of inquiry for Web-based instruction.