Dr. Mike Rogers Taft Eaker

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• Dr. Mike RogersTaft Eaker
• Advanced Learning Technologies
• Board of RegentsUniversity System of Georgia

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FACILITATING LEARNING ONLINE
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BACKGROUND
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Initial EffortsQuestions for Discussion

• How much time does teaching your online course
  require per week? How long should it take?
• How do you spend most of your time when youre
  teaching an online course? How does this compare
  with the proportions of time spent on various
  tasks for face-to-face courses?
• How often should you check in on your online
  course?
• How long should you take to respond to a student
  discussion post or e-mail?
• Faculty presently teaching What surprised you
  most about teaching your online course?

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Scenarios for Discussion

• You are receiving three or four e-mails a day
  from students asking when a particular assignment
  is due. You posted the information on the
  Calendar tool, but students dont seem to be
  finding the information. How do you correct the
  situation?
• Several students in your class are shy about
  asking questions in the Discussion area and are
  sending their content-related questions to you
  via your faculty e-mail account. Do you continue
  to respond privately? If so, why? If not, what
  alternatives would you offer?
• Youre making an effort to respond to every
  message posted in the discussion area for your
  course, but notice that student participation is
  rather low. How do you address this problem?

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Next Effort Online Teaching and LearningOLTL

• The course consists of four week-long units
• Week 0 Preliminary Activities (2-3 days before
  official start of the course)
• Week 1 The Role of the Instructor and the
  Learner
• Week 2 Effective Teaching Strategies
• Week 3 Building Learning Communities/Participatio
  n/Collaboration
• Week 4 Evaluation and Transformative Learning
• Week 5 Post-class evaluations/reflections

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Research

• What should our next effort be?

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Facilitating Learning Online FLO

• was designed with faculty in mind faculty who
  are or may be facilitating online courses as well
  as faulty augmenting classroom teaching with
  online course materials. FLO provides fa
  self-contained, facilitated, experiential
  learning environment that shares a spectrum of
  online learning concepts, theories, and
  principles using interactive and collaborative
  experiences. FLO allows you to experience
  communicating in discussion areas and working in
  an online group project.
• Participants will need to commit about 4-6 hours
  per week for 10 weeks. In return, participants
  will experience through this online course
  various instructional and technological delivery
  methods from the student perspective. This
  online facilitation perspective will allow then
  to learn from seasoned online facilitators.

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FLO OBJECTIVES

• Express positive valid views about online
  learning and effective facilitation.
• Interact collaboratively, supporting online
  learners and learning.
• Plan activities that promote active learning.
• Assess online learning activities.
• Apply strategies to organize and manage an online
  course.
• Formulate plans for research and development as
  an online facilitator.

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For more information about FLO, please contact

• J. Marie Lutz
• Phone [phone]
• Email j-lutz_at_georgiasouthern.edu