This is the story of an open online course "Facilitating Online", developed by Leigh Blackall and Bronwyn Hegarty, and currently facilitated by myself. The 2009 version of the course can be found here: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Facilitating_Online And discussion about the course can be found here: http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2010/01/working-out-difference-between-teaching.html and http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2009/12/facilitating-online-2009-evaluation.html

1. “ Facilitating Online” – the story of an open, online course Sarah Stewart Creative Commons BY Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/88927846@N00/3016905349

3. Facilitating Online http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Facilitating_Online

4. Acknowledgements: Leigh Blackall and Bronwyn Hegarty

5. Open http://www.flickr.com/photos/luchilu/2088202973

6. Formal and Informal Enrolment http://www.flickr.com/photos/82312837@N00/514250207 http://www.flickr.com/photos/50751757@N00/4052258202

7. All material created under a Creative Commons license - can be shared, copied and re-mashed http://www.flickr.com/photos/55943778@N00/3640360845

8. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_map_world_gmt_%28simplified%29.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Zealand_map.PNG Some of the countries students came from

9. *Course was ‘closed’ in BlackBoard 0 1 24 13 15 2009 0 6 80 7 9 2008 2 2 2 7 13 2007 0 0 0 10 13 2006* 0 0 0 10 19 2005* 0 0 0 6 9 2004* informal students who became formal informal students who completed informal students formal students who completed formal students

18. Teaching or Facilitation? http://www.flickr.com/photos/83955435@N00/5484879 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ghindo/1739299123/

20. Sarah Stewart [email_address] http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com Skype: sarah.m.stewart