Facilitating Online

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Facilitation is a rare and valuable skill to have. It is a service that is often used in conferences, debates, panels and tutorials, or simply where groups of people are meeting and need someone to help negotiate meaning and understanding, and to keep everyone engaged and on task.

This online course is designed to help people to access and interpret models, research, and develop professional expertise in online facilitation. Here is the course outline which includes course outcomes, assessments and a study schedule [1]

This course is part of the Otago Polytechnic Graduate Certificate of Tertiary Learning and Teaching - the course is worth 10 credits. To achieve the GCTLT, students must gain a total of 60 credits. For more information about the GCTLT, please contact Heather Day Email

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Welcome

The next facilitated course will be in 2012. If you wish to be sent details about when the course will start or any other information about the course, please contact Sarah Stewart. In the meantime, if you wish to follow the course schedule by yourself, you will find it is set up so you have lots of activities and resources to learn from over the next few months.

During the course you will be expected to keep a reflective blog, so if you do not already have one, you may wish to set one up so you are ready to go when the course starts. There are a number of free blogging platforms available - this course recommends Blogger because it is very easy to use if you have never blogged before. However, there are other choices such as Wordpress, Typepad or Edublogs. We will also be exploring a number of online web conferencing tools so it is preferable that you have a headset with microphone.

Fees. There are three levels of participation and fees for this course.

  • Informal students No charge for people who wish to access the course materials and join the course.
  • Facilitated students Receive focused and personalised learning support, full access to the course web conferencing platform and email group. Facilitated students receive a certificate of participation when they complete the course $NZ180 inc GST and Internet levy (domestic and international students)
  • Formal students Receive full support and access to course materials, assessment services and formal credits for course completion $NZ442.30 approx (domestic); $500 (international students) inc. GST and Internet levy

For more information about the fees and how to enrol as a facilitated or formal student please contact our administrator Catherine Lindsay Email.

If you decide to join the course in any capacity, please add your name, blog address and any other online contact details to the wiki page above called "Participants".


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Week by Week

  • Before the course starts in 2012 - Here is a short, fun quiz that will help you work out if you're ready for the start of FO2012.
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Your Facilitator

Hi, my name is Sarah Stewart and I will be your facilitator during this course. For 0.5 of my time I work in the Educational Development Centre at Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin, New Zealand. For the rest of the time I am a midwifery lecturer for Griffith University (Australia), educational consultant and facilitator. I am a blogger and am totally addicted to Twitter. My greatest claim to fame is that I am the organizer and facilitator of the Virtual International Day of the Midwife.

I am really looking forward to getting to know you all - please feel free to contact me any time to say 'hello', or if you have any queries about the course.

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Course Email Group

One of the ways you can keep in touch with other students is to join the course email group. Click here to join.

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