After the literature review, the bulk of this article is devoted to a big table titled "Summary of Instructional Activities for CoI." The seven big rows of the table echo Sorensen and Baylen's final principles for online instruction, and each is subdivided into the three 'presences' from the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model. I see this mostly as a classification exercise, though I suppose if pressed we could read the rows and subdivisions as providing research support for the activities listed. But I'm left wondering, why these activities rather than others? Why is this an 'activity', for example? "Consider incorporating Web 2.0 applications in course activities, especially social software such as blogs, wikis, etc. (Richardson et al., 2009; Stephens & Roberts, 2017)." Has nothing changed since 2005?
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