Weekly outline

◄Week 1 - What is facilitation?
►Week 1 - First facilitator's hat: Support online learning

  • Week 1 - Facilitator's roles and responsibilities

    • On completion of this sub-unit you will:

      • list the roles and responsibilities on an online facilitator
      • execute specific roles and responsibilities at the correct time and pace within an blended learning and/or online course.

    • Activity 1: Roles and responsibilities

    • Each blended learning and/or online course will be unique. However, well designed facilitated courses envisage specific roles and responsibilities for the online facilitator(s). 

      1. Study Salmon's 5 Stage Model below to see an example of these roles and responsibilities and when they should be deployed during the duration of a course.

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      Salmon, G. (2005). Five stage model URL
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      Summary of Salmon's Five stage model Page
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      1. Salmon identifies 5 distinct course stages in her model. What do you think would be the responsibilities of an online facilitator at each of these stages? What type of activities would the facilitator be expected to perform if the course was being run using a learning management system like this one (Moodle)?
      2. Create a 5 slide presentation (PowerPoint) that identifies the types of activities a facilitator would carry out at each stage. Use the assignment submission tool below to upload your presentation.

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    • At each stage of Salmon's model a mix of different skill sets are required which we will now investigate further. In this course we will use Burge's (1995) categorization of four online facilitation skills:Pedagogical - promoting online learning, Social - nurturing a conducive online environment for learning, Managerial - managing and administering the course andTechnical - providing first line technical support to learners.


    • Additional resources

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      Burge, Z. (1995). The Role of the Online Instructor/Facilitator URL

      An updated version can be found here https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-19-0351-9_62-1

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      A facilitator's guide to running a Retrospective URL
◄Week 1 - What is facilitation?
►Week 1 - First facilitator's hat: Support online learning