Facilitating Learning Online Workshop - Festival of Learning with Sylvia Riessner, Beth Cougler Blom, and Leonne Beebe https://festival.bccampus.ca/

1. CC – BY 4.0 International
Beth Cougler Blom @BethCouglerBlom
Leonne Beebe leonne.beebe@ufv.ca
Sylvia Riessner @northerntweeter
Sylvia Currie @currie
Festival of Learning – June, 2016

2. Today’s Session
• Networking (your BIG question)
• Evolution and flow of FLO
• Explore questions and strategies
[break 10:30 – 10:45]
• Activity designs
• Sharing our prototypes
• Looking back - looking forward

3. Impromptu Networking
• Who are you?
• What do you do at work?
• What is your BIG question
about engaging learners
online?
Write on index card

5. Threads of Change
BCcampus Program Development Fund
RRU develops ISWO
BCcampus adopts ISWO OER
First offering Oct 2013
Name change to FLO
feedback > revise > feedback > revise
2016 Design Sprint! Major overhaul!
feedback > revise > feedback > revise

7. Roles in FLO
Participant
Facilitator

8. Building Community

9. Diversity

10. Responsive Facilitation
Brava! Thanks for
being the first to
dive in…
That’s an
interesting idea.
I wonder…
What might
be another
example?Meta…

11. Collaboration

12. Self Assessment

13. Feedback
• Facilitation Team Feedback (forum or
feedback tool)
• FLIF (Feel, Like, Improve, Feedback)
________really helped/supported my learning.
My learning might have been better if _______.
I like, I wish, what if…?
What did the facilitators do that you really
liked? What did the facilitators do that were
really challenging for you? What other kinds
of strategies could the facilitators have
tried?
● 3 things the team did that helped guide you
through the activity
● 2 suggestions about what the team might
have done differently
● 1 thing that the team did that you might
“borrow” to use in your own facilitation
practice

14. Workload Management

15. Looking Back - Looking Forward

16. How do we support…

17. Theme 1: Building Online Community
How to help learners experience belonging to the course
community
How to help learners function in the online learning community

18. Theme 2: Diversity
How to help learners to learn in a variety of formats
How to help learners demonstrate their learning in a variety of
forms/formats

19. Theme 3: Responsive Facilitation
How to help learners deal with concerns within the course format
How to help facilitators deal with concerns within the course format

20. Theme 4: Collaboration
How to help learners work together and benefit from team/group
work

21. Theme 5:
Looking Back–Looking Forward
How to help learners develop reflective skills

22. Stream 1: Self-Assessment
How to help learners develop metacognitive reflective and self-
assessment skills

23. Exploring Questions + Strategies
• Align your BIG question to the FLO themes
• Discuss your big questions in your theme groups in terms of
challenges / strategies
• Keep in mind that you will have an opportunity to develop a
short online learning activity after the break

24. Activity Design
• Review elements of FLO
template
• “KIS” but consider ….

25. Companion
Workshop -
Facilitating
Learning:
Design Focus
Focus module:
Synchronous
Focus module:
Assessment
Focus module:
???

26. See you in FLO?
proflearn.bccampus.ca
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Thanks for
participating!
Hope to see you
online!
T
T
Out of confusion
comes clarity
We are all
facilitators!