Community of Inquiry and Creative Commons



Community of Inquiry (Source: Google image)

Creative Commons

    This was the session where we got an insight into using Creative Commons (CC) (2017). CC is a non-profit organization that provides copyright licenses to share their work across various platforms and provides guidance on how this can be attributed. This is an interesting platform where media such as video, images and other sources can be accessed through Flickr, 500px, The New York Public library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Perez, 2017), If planning to use any images, a beta search engine is available here.

    Learning about creative commons was helpful. Adding image and media, e.g. audio or video in the lecture notes or other contents, searching through creative commons will find CC licences images and other media types.

Community of Inquiry

    The community of inquiry theory talks about three presence-s social presence, cognitive presence and teacher presence and how they are interrelated to each other. (Garrison, et al, 2000) Cognitive presence is something that students have an understanding and knowledge about the content they develop. Teaching presence related to the fact that instructors ability to design the course, share the content with the students, assist with the learning process and this teaching presence also overlaps with the cognitive presence as the instructor controls the learning, e.g. how the students are learning, what they are learning and have a direct impact on the cognitive presence. Social presence is portraying yourself as real.

     Instructors need to set the climate, especially if the learning is happening in an online environment. Instructors need to model the behaviours where students feel comfortable and express themselves freely and comfortably in that environment. Instructors' social presence is significant for students' interaction especially when your expectations are students sharing ideas and coming up with new ideas. To have great educational experiences during teaching, social, cognitive and teacher presences are a must. Learning itself is a social process; therefore, social presence is significant for a high level of cognitive presence in an online environment.

References

Creative Commons. (2001, January 21). Creative Commons. [Web site]. https://creativecommons.org/  

Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T., & Archer, W. (2000). Critical inquiry in a text-based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education model. The Internet and Higher Education, 2(2-3), 87-105. http://cde.athabascau.ca/coi_site/documents/Garrison_Anderson_Archer_Critical_Inquiry_model.pdf 

Lucas, A. (2016, April 21). Creative Commons: An Introduction for Teachers. [YouTube Video]. Available from https://youtu.be/622OHuEMM38  

Perez, S. (2017, February 7). Creative Commons unveils a new photo search engine with filters, lists & social sharing. Extra Crunch. https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/07/creative-commons-unveils-a-new-photo-search-engine-with-filters-lists-social-sharing/





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