Download - Facilitating in the Open
Hi from my home office
almost pyjamas
online facilitator backtherapy
my other office
What do we mean by facilitating?
Organizational
Social
Intellectual
OPEN means many things
• Formal or not• Credit or not or both• Distributed or not• Free or not• Open enrolment or not
OPEN does change things
• Potentially more complex
• Prepare for the unknown
• New possibilities
• Many hats
• Emerging and multiple facilitators
• New formats
• Less control
• More flexible
• Selective attention
• More organizational and less intellectual?
From 2002 Guide
• Designing the right mix of online and off-line activities • Keeping tabs on individual students’ progress• Catering for different learning preferences and
learner needs• Adopting student-centred approaches, and learning
to become a ‘guide’ or ‘facilitator’• Dealing with the pragmatics of teaching online – e.g.
administrative and support requirements, and issues of time
• Dealing with technical issues
Moodle is just not designed to cope with my specific
group of learners
Moodle Myth
Photo by Brad Holt
Moodle as a hub of activity
• Communities of Practice• Online conferences• Workshops• Courses• Special interest groups• Portal• Portfolios
We’re networked! Now what?
Google- Calendar- Groups- Reader- Forms
Moodle as a learning hub
BlogsYouTube
Blip.tv
Diigo
Delicious
Flickr
Etc.
This tool
Etc.
Etc.
That tool
Some great examples
“…as a student taking several courses, it would be easier to have all the information in one place”
Post by Diana ChanStudent, Simon Fraser UniversityIn Demystifying the Student Perspective discussion at SCoPE
