online course facilitation building a community of learners
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Online Course Facilitation
Building a Community of Learners
Issues
• Newness of the Environment– Trust
• Facilitator• Participants
– Navigation• Course areas• Discussion and assignments
Issues
• Technical– Hardware
• Computers• Dial-up vs Broadband
– Software• Browser• Virus protection• Applications for posting assignments
Issues
• Time Constraints– Participants– Yours– AOHS
Issues
• Lack of visual cues– Text only environment– Participants prior experiences
• With Facilitator• With each other• With Online Courses
Sarcasm
What are your concerns?
Effective Professional Development
• Focus
• Balance
• Engage
• Relate
• Provide
• Support
• Foster
Source: http://www.edtechleaders.org/Resources/opd_report/genconsiderations.htm
Types of Online Professional Development
• Broadcast approaches
• Self-paced, independent study
• College lecture course model
• Tutorial models
• Learning community model
Learning Community
• Interactions among all the
participants and facilitator
• Many-to-many interactions
• Synchronous "chats"
Building Community
• Resources– Provided here– In this course shell– On the web
• Adult learning theory– Google Search– In this course shell
• Modeling– Email– Responses
• “Judo”
Practice
• Select partner
• Login to Tech Tools training course
• Click Class Discussion – Open Practice– Formulate solutions to the challenges– Post your response
• Review responses
Review of Presentation
• What worked?
• What didn’t?
• What is missing?
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