Facilitating Online course
Starting again to use the blog. Its been a while since I have used this blog, I have others but this one is for any courses that I am participating in. Please ignore the previous posts they belong to a past course I did in 2008,I didn’t want to create another blog. Sorry I’m a bit late joining Sarah but I am keen to get up to speed.
I work for the Otago Polytechnic as a lecturer in the School of Business for computing. There are usually large class numbers and a variety of skill levels, sometimes the more skilled students become disengaged with the learning because of this. So I have decided to use a more blended delivery allowing the more competent students to work online and to attend class for tutorials and assessments only. I haven’t worked out the finer details yet but I’m sure that as I think through the process there may be some difficulties. Having completed online courses myself as a student it can be fraught with issues but Hopefully not.
I am hoping that the Facilitating online course will give me some of the tools I can use to make this transition easier for me and students.
I have used online tools before blogs etc and I have found that you need a relatively good skills to navigate around all the technical, (how to do things part of the online digital world). I like to be able to do something immediately and have full control over the process but sometimes the digital world can interfere with that. I find that repetition of these functions is the key, the more often I do it the easier it is to remember.
Looking forward to engaging in a learning environment that exists online.
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July 29, 2010 at 1:24 am
Hello Lyn, great to hear from you…welcome to ‘Facilitating Online’. Great advice to us all about ‘repetition’ being the key to learning technology skills.
Have a good look around the course wiki so you can see what you’ve missed (which is only introductions). I’ll give you a ring early next week to check in with how you are doing. Also, subscribe to the course blog and email group. Once you’ve done those things, you’ll have full access to everything that is currently going on.
There are a couple of other late starters, so if you like, I can do a quick catch-up on Elluminate early next week.
cheers Sarah
July 31, 2010 at 6:21 am
welcome Lyn.
as you know I’m the “naive inquirer” always wanting coaching on technical matters, so I really endorse your repetition advice.
I’m still struggling to select and use Flickr images succesfully in my Blog, so that’s one of my challenges for this course.
You will find this an interesting group to be a memebr of- varied ideas and skill levels, so some personal devel;iopment here for you.
Looking forward to further engagement.
Willie