Communities of inquiry. A method to teach

A community of inquiry is a group of specialists (but not only) from a domain (but they could be from different areas, as well) gathered to examine an idea, a theme, a topic of common interest through investigation based on dialog. The most important thing is that this community produces knowledge. The purpose of this study is to describe and present the added-value of community of inquiry as a method to teach. Mixed composition, professors, experts, students/pupils makes the community of inquiry a research group with important mentorship resources. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of PSIWORLD2011