{"id":640,"date":"2015-10-14T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T11:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/?p=640"},"modified":"2015-10-14T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T11:55:49","slug":"facilitating-online-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/facilitating-online-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitating Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-650\" style=\"width: 454px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-650\" src=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/logo.jpg\" alt=\"Facilitating Online image\" width=\"454\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome to Facilitating Online<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019ve signed up for a five week Facilitating Online course run by <a href=\"http:\/\/emergeafrica.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emerge Africa<\/a>. Here\u2019s why I\u2019ve joined.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve met some fabulous facilitators in a range of organisational settings. From young adults informally working alongside teens on an outdoor youth camps to expensive organisational development experts hired in by senior managers to in to assist run an important strategic planning event. These facilitators have been confident, wise, open, innovative, real and honest. They are inspiring people and I&#8217;ve enjoyed their company and admired their ability to work with others, and assist members of the various groups (whether they be youth or executives).<\/p>\n<p>I also work online. I have a Masters in Computer Assisted Education and a 20 year track record in e-learning and I\u2019ve worked with digital materials development (print, radio, multi-media, new media and electronic platforms, graphic design, HTML, audio, video, etc.) within a range of educational and developmental settings. I have hands-on expertise with learning design (lectures, courses, workshops and seminars), presentation and facilitation skills and significant project leadership.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;I&#8217;m a fan of facilitation and a fairly seasoned online practitioner. But if I am entirely honest with myself, I am not yet able to integrate the two concepts &#8211; Facilitating and Online \u2013 and make them complement each other in a way that enhances the intended objectives. Regularly bridging this divide between facilitation and online is one of the reasons that I have an interest in the course \u2013 Facilitating Online.<br \/>\nDuring the course I expect to be introduced to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The guiding ideas behind online facilitation<\/li>\n<li>Theories, methods and tools for the online facilitator<\/li>\n<li>Exposed to how online facilitators steward and use the infrastructures available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ultimately, within any course, we are judged on the quality of our results. The problem comes with knowing when and how to measure quality. You don&#8217;t pull up a carrot to see how they are growing. Those facilitators that I mentioned earlier on that I admired, were capable of assisting a group articulate what they want and take steps towards those objectives. These are quantifiable results and I hope that with time and opportunity, I will also be able to claim such quantifiable results. Learning together as an organisation offers opportunities for a range of results that are not quantifiable to emerge. These results include innovativeness, openness, confidence, authenticity, care for the other. Those facilitators that I mentioned earlier on that I admired were also people that lived these qualities and these only became apparent only as we worked together. I hope that I and others on the course participate in the online facilitation experience, that the course will also offer opportunities for these non quantifiable qualities to emerge.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-650\" style=\"width: 454px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-650\" src=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/logo.jpg\" alt=\"Facilitating Online image\" width=\"454\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome to Facilitating Online<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve signed up for a five week Facilitating Online course run by Emerge Africa. Here\u2019s why I\u2019ve joined. I&#8217;ve met some fabulous facilitators in a range of organisational settings. From young adults informally working alongside teens on an outdoor youth camps to expensive organisational development experts hired in by senior managers to in to assist &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/facilitating-online-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facilitating Online&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}