Introduction

Welcome to the FDWO (Facilitator's Development Workshop Online)!

This course is about learning how to (co)facilitate the ISWO (Instructional Skills Workshop Online), which is itself a course about learning how to facilitate online learning more effectively.

Invariably,  when describing this to people, it's difficult to avoid making a reference to nested dolls...

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Image Courtesy of Paul Martin Eldridge at freedigitalphotos.net

If you are familiar with the ISW (Instructional Skills Workshop), you will recognize the pattern: ISW is a course about learning how to improve classroom teaching skills, and the FDW is about learning how to teach the ISW. 

Same idea here: ISWO is about facilitating online learning, and FDWO is about how to facilitate the ISWO.