Facilitating Online/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 [mailto:sarahstewart07@gmail.com 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 [mailto:catherine.Lindsay@op.ac.nz 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".