Course Outline

FDWO Learning Activities

The key learning activities in the FDWO are:

• Unit Notes:  provide context and content for each week, including required readings and resources. You will find a variety of resource types (e.g., text, videos, etc), and if you remember feeling there was a heavy amount of reading/viewing in ISWO, rest assured, there is less here :)
  
  
• Activities & Cases: you will find a varity of activities designed to get you thinking and preparing for teaching the ISWO.  Sometimes these will be done together, or done individiually and then shared. Some of these will be in the form of  short "cases" that highlight issues you are likely to encounter while facilitating the ISWO. The idea is to give you a chance to think ahead in a supportive community so you'll be better prepared.
  
  
• Discussions: a huge source of the learning in this course is going to come from sharing our experiences through discussions. To facilitate this, there will be asynchronous (forum) and synchronous (web conferencing) discussions each week on a variety of topics.
  
  
• Learning Journal: you are asked to use a learning journal to reflect and record the what, so what and next steps you will take away and apply to your ISWO teaching. Like the ISWO, we invite you to record your key learnings in any format you like, and share brief "nuggets" each week.