Webinar Recording: What Makes a Successful Online Facilitator?

This webinar looks at characteristics of online learning spaces that influence the strategies trainers need to drive learning with the same confidence they exhibit in the classroom. The webinar explores a range of practices including monitoring student engagement, using collaborative documents, and the link between online facilitation and assessment.

Description

Online environments require teachers to adapt their existing facilitation skills to virtual environments. Teaching practices you rely on in face-to-face environments are essential for online environments too, such as managing collaboration, interaction, engagement and discussion.

Topics covered include:

  • The virtual environments where we facilitate, the limitations and advantages
  • How Facilitation means collaboration and interaction
  • Learning content and activities that lend themselves to online facilitation
  • Virtual classroom facilitation techniques
  • Discussion moderation methods
  • Collaborative documents
  • How online facilitation reflects a true blended learning model
  • Assessment options using online facilitation.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this webinar, participants will:

  • Understand the characteristics of online facilitation spaces
  • Confirm their expertise as trainers by seeing how existing approaches can transfer to online learning spaces
  • Be confident to manage virtual facilitation sessions in both virtual classrooms and discussion spaces
  • Link assessment to facilitation online.
  • Clarify evidence of participation indicators that virtual environments provide

Audience

VET educators, trainers and teachers

Certificate

Once you have viewed this webinar recording, you will receive a certificate to record your currency and professional development.

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