This is the story of an open online course "Facilitating Online", developed by Leigh Blackall and Bronwyn Hegarty, and currently facilitated by myself.
The 2009 version of the course can be found here:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Facilitating_Online
And discussion about the course can be found here:
http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2010/01/working-out-difference-between-teaching.html
and
http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2009/12/facilitating-online-2009-evaluation.html
1. “ Facilitating Online” – the story of an open, online course Sarah Stewart Creative Commons BY Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/88927846@N00/3016905349
9. *Course was ‘closed’ in BlackBoard 0 1 24 13 15 2009 0 6 80 7 9 2008 2 2 2 7 13 2007 0 0 0 10 13 2006* 0 0 0 10 19 2005* 0 0 0 6 9 2004* informal students who became formal informal students who completed informal students formal students who completed formal students
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18. Teaching or Facilitation? http://www.flickr.com/photos/83955435@N00/5484879 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ghindo/1739299123/
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20. Sarah Stewart [email_address] http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com Skype: sarah.m.stewart
Notas do Editor
watching the self-organisation that participants did eg the setting up of a Pageflakes page by Chris Woodhouse; discussions that evolved that were driven by students, not by the course eg personal information security and Twitter ; involvement of informal students who added different perspectives and helped keep everyone motivated; the mini-conference - diversity of subjects, speakers and communication tools.