LIEZL KRUGER
Hi everyone!
My name is Liezl and I am a junior academic developer at the NWU. I have worked at the NWU from 2000, first as multimedia developer and later as a junior academic developer specialising in eFundi and other educational technologies. I have a passion for lending support to lecturers who want to design an awesome learning experience for their students.
Comment on the online facilitation model
4 Oct 2019, 07:24
The principles of this model correspond with the Gilly Salmon 5-stage model (more on that model here). I want to comment on the excellent guidance by the facilitators of this course, on helping us to stay on track with the necessary guidance and prompts to keep us engaged and to facilitate a collaborative learning community. As with any online course, the role of the facilitator is to gradually guide the student from a novice to an expert in the discipline. It is thus a key role of the facilitator or e-moderator in keeping students engaged and building the confidence to contribute and apply what he or she have learned.
Good day Liezl,
It is good to see your presence here.
Thank you for taking part in Activity 0.3. Thank you for sharing a resource that I believe all the other participants would enjoy reading through. Please keep up the good work.
Also, see if you can comment and encourage some of your fellow participants as well. It is easier to build trust and a feeling of connectedness online when we all engage, just like in real life. ;-)
Thanks for the link Liezl, that is really useful :)
Hi Liezl
Thank you for sharing the Gilly Salmon 5 stage model. I remember coming across this model once before, in an OLC course I completed for infographics. I like how these two models speak to one another, each one adding an additional layer of depth to the other. They provide an effective starting point to the idea of facilitating online, and with the guidance of our facilitators, it is a road I am looking forward to traveling together with everyone.
Hi Liezl!
I also saw the similarities between the model this course uses and Gilly Salmon's Five Stage Model and the development of the participant from novice to expert through appropriate technologies, e-moderating, subject content and to properly engage to reach that level.
I think that this course will prove useful in engaging us and to provide an online course on eFundi where each one will hopefully find something useful to use in future modules or to develop us as individuals.