Facilitating Online/About

Who Is This Course Designed For?
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. The course is aimed at:


 * teachers who want to know how to facilitate online learning,
 * non-profit organisations who want to know how to facilitate online networks and and communities, events and campaigns,
 * businesses who want to know how to make the best use of online communication tools for meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops.

Aim of the Course
To enhance understanding of how to facilitate in the online environments, using a range of synchronous and asynchronous online communication tools.

Course Outline
The online course has three phases which will allow you to dip in and out of the course according to your particular learning needs, starting March 7, 2011. Having said that, participants who are enrolled as formal students are expected to engage at every stage of the course.


 * In Phase One (July 18th - August 21st), we will be looking at the theory of online facilitation and some case studies.
 * In Phase Two (August 22nd - October 16th) we will work through the process of developing an online event with hands-on experience of using online communication tools.
 * Phase Three (October 17th - November 11th) will be devoted to facilitating and evaluating your own online event which will be part of the mini-conference.

Here is the course outline which includes course outcomes, assessments and a study schedule

Graduate Certificate of Tertiary Learning and Teaching
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 [mailto:Heather.Day@op.ac.nz Email]