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Record W4416619004 · doi:10.1108/dl-03-2021-0001

Introduction to the Special Issue

2021· article· en· W4416619004 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueDistance Learning · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicOnline and Blended Learning
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCreativitySet (abstract data type)Reflection (computer programming)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)PandemicDistance educationOnline learningHigher education

Abstract

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COVID-19 has impacted nearly every aspect of life and made more visible the myriad domestic, social, political, economic, and educational inequalities that have persisted all over the world. It has also illuminated the importance of teaching and learning, designing effective learning experiences, engaging students in the learning process, and in particular, supporting students—no matter where, how, or when they learn. This became even more evident as P–12 schools and institutions of higher education closed and shifted to emergency remote teaching and learning due to the COVID-19 global health pandemic during the spring of 2020 (Hodges et al., 2020; Milman, 2020a, 2020b). The response to COVID-19 required educators to quickly reconceptualize and redesign their instruction via diverse, remote learning contexts. This was also true for experienced online educators who had to adapt to an emerging and complex set of realities—and still have to as the global health crisis persists.Although the future successes of online educators may require greater creativity and reliance on technology-mediated instruction for the foreseeable future, as well as reflection on lessons learned during emergency remote teaching and learning, the community of inquiry (CoI) framework (see Figure 1) provides a well-known foundation for designing effective and successful online education. Developed during 1997–2001, the CoI framework (Garrison et al., 2001) emerged through a research project conducted by a group of Canadian researchers (Garrison et al., n.d.). This validated framework (Stenbom, 2018) consists of three major interrelated elements necessary for quality, effective online education, which are social presence, cognitive presence, and teaching presence. Each of these will be defined in the sections that follow.This special issue consists of several Ends and Means articles that I have written or coauthored and that I have organized using the three major elements of the CoI framework. The last section has articles written by other authors who incorporated CoI.Although the articles in the first three sections are organized according to the three different elements of the CoI framework, a key aspect of the framework is how these elements are interdependent (see Figure 1). Therefore, some articles could also be categorized in another CoI presence. Additionally, there are many resources that provide even more ideas about incorporating CoI (e.g., Garrison & Arbaugh, 2007; Garrison et al., 2010). For example, Fiock (2020) outlines several activities online educators might use to incorporate the CoI and Castellanos-Reyes (2020) wrote an article summarizing the past 20 years of this important framework for online education. It is my hope that these articles will offer readers several strategies and ideas for supporting, designing, and sustaining quality online education as well as for using the CoI framework.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.709
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.288 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it