facilitating in the open
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Canada Moot presentation, May 5, 2011TRANSCRIPT
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