Research and Analysis of Blended Teaching based on the Community of Inquiry Model

Abstract

Against the backdrop of rapid development in educational technology, blended teaching, as an emerging educational model, is attracting increasing academic attention. This article aims to explore the current research status of blended teaching and exploratory community of inquiry theory. The analysis results show that technology, evaluation, and design have become the focus topics of blended teaching, and keyword co-occurrence clustering analysis has discovered the research hot-spots of Community of Inquiry(COI) theory. The study further proposes a COI-based blended teaching framework, which integrate the teaching, social, and cognitive presence into the pre-class, in-class, and after-class teaching process. Finally, this study summarizes the issues worth further research in the future.