The Examination of The Relationship Between The Community of Inquiry Framework And Instructional Experience In The E-Learning Environment

In the community of inquiry framework, effective learning particularly a higher level of learning depended on developing a community; however, some of the professionals asserted against the matter. So, the present study is aimed to examine the relationship between the community of inquiry framework and instructional experience in an E-learning environment through a meta-analysis method. The statistical population was all international and national studies that examined the relationship between the community of inquiry framework and instructional experience in an E-learning environment through casual and correlative methods. They are chosen 23 studies as samples based on inclusive and exclusive criteria and were analyzed by CMA2 software. Based on Cochran's C test and confidence interval and significant level (p<0.05), it can be said that the assumptions are approved and there are significant differences among effect sizes and it means variance in effect size. So, it has to use a mixed effect model to interpret the mixed effect size. The mixed effect size in the relationship between the community of inquiry framework and the instructional experience was 0.524 and with 0.95 confidence level, it can be ranged from 0.423 to 0.613. The interpretation of mixed size about Cohen's criteria is high. Also, the mixed effect size is significant based on z=38.219 and sig=0.000. So, the findings showed there is a significant relationship between the community of inquiry framework and instructional experience in an E-learning environment.