ISWO Learning Outcomes
These learning outcomes are drawn from the fields of adult learning and online learning. We have selected a few key themes related to successful online facilitation. At the end of this course, you will be (better) able to apply these to your planning and teaching online.
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Themes
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Learning Outcomes
(participants will be able to...)
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Where & how this shows up in the course
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Apply relevant principles & theory to support adult learners online
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- Identify instructional/design problems and propose solutions appropriate for adult online learners
- Design and facilitate online learning activities that accommodate diverse groups of adult learners online
- Use learning outcomes to guide activity design and evaluation
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- Mini-session topics
- Your mini-session: designing, choosing tools, and facilitating
- Engaging in reflective practice (journal nuggets, FLIF, forum discussions)
- Readings: completing, reflecting, journalling, and sharing
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Build & sustain online community
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- Recognize and assess community-building elements and strategies in the design of online learning activities and courses
- Use appropriate strategies to support diverse communities of online adult learners
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- Mini session topics
- Design features of this course that support community include: team work, Building Community forum, sharing "journal nuggets" weekly
- Readings: completing, reflecting, journalling, and sharing
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Manage the online course environment
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- Use appropriate strategies and tools to establish and maintain instructor presence, and support learning and community goals
- Articulate rationale for instructional choices (including tool selection)
- Attend to “general housekeeping” of the online environment
- Work effectively with groups online (including recognizing group dynamics, and identifying opportunities to prevent or manage group conflict)
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- Mini-session topics
- Your mini-session: how you begin, middle, and end it!
- observing and reflecting on others' approaches to managing the online environment
- Readings: completing, reflecting, journalling, and sharing
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Use feedback and assessment strategies skilfully
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- Provide constructive, growth-oriented feedback to your peers
- Critically reflect on feedback and course experiences to self-evaluate work and learning
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- Your mini-session: facilitating, receiving feedback from others, reflecting on it and submitting a reflection (FLIF)
- Others' mini-sessions: providing feedback to others on their facilitation
- self-assessing your participation
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Note: If you are an instructional design geek, you might find this interesting: the learning outcomes listed here are the ones that guide the ISWO course (they apply to you as a learner, here). And, each mini-session has its own learning outcomes and assessment criteria (they apply to the participants of mini-sessions, and the facilitators of mini-sessions need to work with them). The ISWO outcomes in italics (in case you were wondering) are those also found in the mini-session learning outcomes.