COVID-19 Crisis: Exploring Community of Inquiry in Online Learning for Sub-Degree Students

Yui-yip Lau, Yuk Ming Tang, Ka Yin Chau, Lina Vyas, Andrés Sandoval-Hernández, Simon Wong

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a tremendous impact on the pedagogy and learning experience of students in sub-degree education sector of Hong Kong. Online learning has become the “sole” solution to deal with student learning challenges during this chaotic period. In this study, we explore online learning for sub-degree students by using a community of inquiry (CoI). As such, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted on survey data gathered from 287 sub-degree students from the business and engineering disciplines. Results indicated that the network speed for online education determines the perceived cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence of students, whereas gender and academic disciplines of students are not moderating factors that create a significant difference in perceived cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching presence of students. Our study findings for creating and sustaining a purposeful online learning community are highlighted.
Original languageEnglish
Article number679197
JournalFrontiers in Psychology
Volume12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jul 2021

Funding

The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Macau Higher Education Fund (Ref.: TET-CITYU-2020-04) for this research.

Keywords

  • Community of Inquiry
  • Online learning
  • Sub-degree students
  • Network speed
  • Gender
  • Academic discipline

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