Principles of Blended Learning: Shared Metacognition and Communities of Inquiry

By Norman D. Vaughan, Deborah Dell, Martha Cleveland-Innes and D. Randy Garrison

The rapid migration to remote instruction during the Covid-19 pandemic has expedited the need for more research, expertise, and practical guidelines for online and blended learning. A theoretical grounding of approaches and practices is imperative to support blended learning and sustain change across multiple levels in education organizations, from leadership to classroom. The Community of Inquiry is a valuable framework that regards higher education as both a collaborative and individually constructivist learning experience. The framework considers the interdependent elements of social, cognitive, and teaching presence to create a meaningful learning experience. In this volume, the authors further explore and refine the blended learning principles presented in their first book, Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry, with an added focus on designing, facilitating, and directing collaborative blended learning environments by emphasizing the concept of shared metacognition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Athabasca University Press
• Release date: Oct 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9781771993937

Norman D. Vaughan

Norman D. Vaughan is a professor in the Department of Education at Mount Royal University. He has co-authored Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry (2013), and Blended Learning in Higher Education (2008). In addition, he has published a series of articles on blended learning and faculty development. Dr. Vaughan is the co-founder of the Blended Online Design Network (BOLD), a founding member of the Community of Inquiry Research Group, the associate editor of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning and he is on the editorial boards of numerous national and international journals.

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