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Beth Cougler Blom @BethCouglerBlom

Leonne Beebe leonne.beebe@ufv.ca

Sylvia Riessner @northerntweeter

Sylvia Currie @currie

Festival of Learning – June, 2016

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

Impromptu Networking

• Who are you?• What do you do at work?• What is your BIG question

about engaging learners online?

Write on index card

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

urls.bccampus.ca/threads

Roles in FLO

ParticipantFacilitator

Building Community

Diversity

Responsive Facilitation

Brava! Thanks for being the first to

dive in…

That’s an interesting idea.

I wonder…What might be another example?Meta…

Collaboration

Self Assessment

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

Workload Management

Looking Back - Looking Forward

How do we support…

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         

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

         

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

          

Theme 4: Collaboration

How to help learners work together and benefit from team/group work

          

Theme 5: Looking Back–Looking Forward

How to help learners develop reflective skills       

Stream 1: Self-Assessment

How to help learners develop metacognitive reflective and self-assessment skills

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

Activity Design

• Review elements of FLOtemplate

• “KIS” but consider ….

Companion Workshop - Facilitating Learning:

Design Focus

Focus module: Synchronous

Focus module: Assessment

Focus module: ???

See you in FLO?proflearn.bccampus.ca

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Thanks for participating!

Hope to see you online!

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TOut of confusion

comes clarity

We are all facilitators!