What is the difference between teaching and facilitation?
What are the challenges you might expect in an online class as compared to a face to face session?
Use the discussion forum below to post what you think a good definition of facilitation would be. Have a look what your peers have posted and respond to one of them. Please do select those who have not had any responses so that we are all taken on board.
Teaching is providing knowledge while facilitation is guiding students to acquire this knowledge
Challenges in an online classroom includes;
lack of expertise in using online resources/ platforms
lack of knowledge in tackling technical issues encountered in the classroom
Maintaining the attention of the students throughout the lesson
Facilitation is providing guidance for the students, where students role is greater than the lecturers. Lecturer acts as a mentor and students take the leadership of their own learning.
The act of assisting others in a process or reaching an agreement without directly participating in the discussion.
Teaching can be considered as imparting knowledge whereas facilitation is assisting students to understand and uptake that knowledge. In Latter case, the involvement of students are considerably more compared to teaching.
challenges - student engagement and motivation
