About the course
This course is aimed at educators as well as trainers and educational technologists involved in leading, designing and facilitating online or blended courses. The course provides opportunities for participants to develop strategies to become effective online facilitators. The course model is based on five principles, namely, arriving, conversing, facilitating, creating, applying. The course learning pathway follows each of these steps chronologically. At each stage participants take on particular roles and develop specific skills.
Learning objectives
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Facilitate synchronous and asynchronous online discussions;
- Demonstrate knowledge of different facilitation strategies in response to diversity, difference and conflict;
- Demonstrate knowledge of the opportunities afforded by technologies for online learning community development; and
- Design or adapt short online learning activities using a range of online facilitation tools appropriately.
Course cost
The full cost of the course is R5500 with discounts available as follows:
- When enrolling 5 or more participants, participants are entitled to 10% discount.
- UCT staff are entitled to a 30% discount i.e. R3850.
- All current full-time postgraduate students from any institution are entitled to a 50% discount i.e. R2750.
- HELTASA members are entitled to a 10% discount i.e. R4950.
NB: Please request a discount voucher code from: pgbold@uct.ac.za BEFORE you enrol for the course.
More information
Blended and Online Learning (BOLD) short courses
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