Facilitating Online

Published On: 10 October 1009|

Increasingly, universities are using online resources and interaction to support student learning. Even educators with excellent face-to-face facilitation skills are likely to confront a significant learning curve in transferring these skills to the online environment. Sound online facilitation skills can equip educators to facilitate engaged students across a range of conversational spaces, including online discussion forums, chat rooms, wikis and blogs, for debate and shared knowledge construction. Trained online facilitators are also able to make appropriate choices concerning the use of online communication within the design of learning activities.

Author: Carr, T; Jaffer, S & Smuts, J