Online Course Facilitation Building a Community of Learners

Issues Newness of the Environment –Trust Facilitator Participants –Navigation Course areas Discussion and assignments

Issues Technical –Hardware Computers Dial-up vs Broadband –Software Browser Virus protection Applications for posting assignments

Issues Time Constraints –Participants –Yours –AOHS

Issues Lack of visual cues –Text only environment –Participants prior experiences With Facilitator With each other With Online Courses Sarcasm

What are your concerns?

Effective Professional Development Focus Balance Engage Relate Provide Support Foster Source:

Types of Online Professional Development Broadcast approaches Self-paced, independent study College lecture course model Tutorial models Learning community model

Learning Community Interactions among all the participants and facilitator Many-to-many interactions Synchronous "chats"

Building Community Resources –Provided here –In this course shell –On the web Adult learning theory –Google Search –In this course shell Modeling – –Responses Judo

Practice Select partner Login to Tech Tools training course Click Class Discussion –Open Practice –Formulate solutions to the challenges –Post your response Review responses

Review of Presentation What worked? What didnt? What is missing?

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