Learn More about FLO Courses

1. FLO Courses

In 2013 BCcampus began offering Royal Roads University's Facilitating Learning Online workshop (then called Instructional Skills Workshop Online and now called FLO-Fundamentals). From the beginning, the goal of this course was to prepare educators across the BC post-secondary system to facilitate online learning, first by hosting, refining and growing the collection of courses, and then by supporting the adoption and expansion process in a way that maintains a high-quality experience for faculty and staff. All FLO courses are openly licensed and available for institutions to implement in-house. We are now focusing on the second phase: adoption.

Over the years participant feedback has informed our curriculum revisions and development, resulting in the redesign of FLO-Fundamentals, and the addition of two new courses: FLO-Design and FLO-Synchronous. Several other suggestions for course topics have emerged, such as assessing learning, multimedia development, open pedagogy, and digital literacy. 

 

This course is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

2. FLO MicroCourses

FLO MicroCourses are part of the Facilitating Learning Online family of courses. Unlike the longer and more comprehensive FLO courses, MicroCourses are one week in length, single-topic, and designed to give you an immediate and practical jump on your course preparation and facilitation.In one week participants dip into the FLO experience and leave with something practical and useful for your own teaching practice.

Topics are emergent and relate to designing and facilitating and learning online. We welcome suggestions for MicroCourse topics, contributions to building the FLO curriculum, and offers to facilitate. And, of course, you are encourage to implement MicroCourses at your own institution. 

3. Your Participation

FLO MicroCourses are open to the public. Registration is required in order to share your work, receive feedback from peers, and contribute to discussions. However, the entire course is available without the need for an account on the BCcampus Learning and Teaching LMS site. 

Participants should expect to spend at least 7.5 hours for course activities during the week. Those with no prior online teaching and learning experience can expect to invest more time.

Active participation will make this course successful for everyone.