Hot TopicFacilitating Online

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Facilitating Online

Alex Hayes, eLearning Consultant

Paula Williams, Learning & Innovation

Stephan Ridgway, Learning & Innovation (MC)

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Session Overview

What is online facilitation?

Why do we need to know?

How does it affect teaching today?

What skills do we need?

Beyond the classroom, the future of learning

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What is online facilitation?

/ An historical overview of the shift from distance learning, online learning, eLearning, through to network learning

/ Platforms examples

/ Changing landscape as we move to 21C

A rough evolution of e-learningComputer based

content and multimedia

PowerPoint

Video

CD based materials

Web based content, training and learning

management systems

LAN/ intranet based

Internet based

Mobile devices and social software

Teacher centred Learner centredCommunity

centred

WEB2.0

Blogs

Wikis

flickR

Del-icio-us

PDAs

Mobile phones

behavourism constructivism connectivism

Collaboration ; democracy ; collective intelligence ; openness ; collective action/ construction ; participation ; aggregation ; producer = consumer

Model by Robyn Jay

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Why we need to know?Student centred learning

Moving beyond the classroom

19 C Classrooms vs 21C Learners

‘Age of Transition’ -Industrial era to digital era

Hyperconnectivism – ‘Switched on’ 24/7

Computer is a window not a destination

Classroom is a conversation- learning is a social

interaction

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‘Age of Transition’

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How does it affect teaching today

/ Hyperconnectivism – ‘Switched on’ 24/7 / Computer is a window not a destination/ Classroom is a conversation- learning is a / social interaction

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‘Networking All Course Attributes’

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‘Collaborative Agenda’

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Interactive WB ‘session’…..

What are the skills we need ?

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‘Interactive Remote Participation’

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‘Building Online Facilitation Skills’

http://recit.org/media/users/pierrel/NetworkedTeacher.jpg

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/ TAFE NSW - Sydney Institute - Facilitating Online/ elf Program eg Diploma TAA 501A (elective) Pilot with

Illawarra/Western Sydney Institute/ Other Institutes – Western Institute/ Facilitating online communities - wikieducator

Examples: Online Facilitation Courses

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