Literature about the integral role of the arts in learning is widely available, but much less has been written about how the arts and aesthetics support education in the creative arts therapies, particularly in the online learning environment. This article introduces the concept of aesthetic presence within the Community of Inquiry pedagogical model in line with values espoused within a Universal Design for Learning framework. The authors contextualize this concept with examples of how attention to the use of aesthetic and multimedia strategies in the classroom and in the online learning environment may foster openness and connection, encourage flexibility, humor, critical thinking, and animate and facilitate conversations about emergent and emotionally difficult themes while increasing accessibility for different kinds of learners.

关于艺术在学习中的整体作用的文献可广泛获得，但是关于艺术和美学如何在创意艺术疗法中，特别是在在线学习环境中支持教育的文献很少。本文根据“通用学习设计”框架中倡导的价值观，介绍了“探究社区”教学法模型中的审美存在概念。作者举例说明了如何在教室和在线学习环境中使用美学和多媒体策略，以促进开放性和联系性，鼓励灵活性，幽默感，批判性思维，并赋予动画效果并促进有关突发事件和情感方面的对话困难的主题，同时增加各种学习者的可及性。