Evaluating the Effects of Interactive Classroom Strategies

College of Nursing faculty have implemented some very innovative classroom strategies in face-to-face and online courses to keep students engaged with each other and interacting with the instructor and the course content.  We need to share those strategies with our colleagues in the nursing education community, and having evidence to back up the effectiveness of our strategies will make them even stronger!  Have you been using a teaching strategy you would like to evaluate or share with others?  The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework might be exactly what you need.  The CoI framework uses three elements—social presence, teaching presence, and cognitive presence—to explain how students engage in interaction and reflection to construct meaning and develop mutual understanding of course content.  This easy-to-understand framework already has a validated survey under a Creative Commons license, so you can offer it to your students in your course with a simple Qualtrics survey.  If you would like to explore the effectiveness of your teaching strategy by using the CoI framework, please let us know at TIES_Academy@osu.edu.  We would welcome an opportunity to help you implement the CoI survey or collect other data to measure learning outcomes.