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Facilitating in the Open

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Sylvia CurrieOnline Communitiesscurrie@bccampus.ca

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

LMS mindset

“Doors” by percivalsmithers

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

Twitter

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