This course fascinates me with its scope and versatility. To be frank, most of the courses which teach the technicalities and management of online learning touch very little on the facilitation of online teaching. Some do, but the topic gets lost in the discussion of other topics.
Facilitating online learning clearly reflects the needs for today’s distance education. As online learning becoming more and more prevalent and complex in nature catering the diverse target population definitely is a huge and sensitive task.
It will be interesting to see how facilitation in online and face to face courses differ or agree. The difference between just a presentation and facilitation can be exemplified in following video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aLkYDWmOtA
Want to know other’s experience in online facilitation? Stanford University implemented its online CLAD/CTEL program which gives us some ideas how it like to be an online facilitator. Please check with the following videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TujGsjoSmtk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXl0PbMw5vk&feature=related
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