Covid-19 pandemic: exploring community of inquiry practices in e-learning environments from graduate female students' views at education collage at Najran University

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Curriculum and instruction department, Education collage, Najran University, Saudi Arabia

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the study aimed to identify the practices of the community of inquiry framework (cognitive, social and teaching presences) in e-learning environments in Covid-19 pandemic from the views of graduate students at the College of Education at Najran University, and also aimed to know the impact of variables (type of program, department, academic year ) in the responses of graduate students towards the  community of inquiry practices in e-learning environments, and the descriptive method was used, and the study instrument was applied to a sample of (95) female graduate students in the College of Education. The survey community of inquiry in the e-learning environment was high, and the results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences according to the department variable in favor of the kindergarten department in the areas of cognitive presences and teaching presences of the survey framework in e-learning environments. In light of the results of the study, a number of recommendations were presented, including; Training teachers to use community inquiry framework practices in education across e-learning environments.
 
 

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