Discussion Forum overview Virtual Classroom overview Virtual Classroom Strategies

3. TAEDEL501A Facilitate e-
learning
Session 2 – Introduction to online
teaching and learning
CRICOS 00111D TOID 3059

4. Go to kahoot.it/ in browser and
enter the game number below
then add a nickname
Game
number

5. Mood Meter Ice breakers
I’m toastSteady as we
go
Speedin Hitting the
wall
WOW!

6. Chairs Ice Breakers

7. Icebreakers Worst Albums

8. Icebreakers
What have you learnt this week?

9. Synchronous Asynchronous
Not
LiveLive
Virtual Classrooms Discussions
Communities
Informal networks
Q n A

10. Synchronous Asynchronous
Not
LiveLive

11. Asynchronous Facilitation

12. Discussion activities can be text or voice based
and is generally used to support asynchronous
learning, performance support and informal
learning.
Asynchronous learning involves the ability for
trainers and learners to maintain
communication without having to meet at the
same place at the same time.
Why Discussion activities

13. • Extend activities from F2F sessions
• Shape form of F2F workshops
• Pre workshop activities
• Ongoing professional community of learners
• Problem Solving
• Consultation around work practices/policy
• Information sharing
• Repository of trainer & student wisdom and
experience, tips and tricks
Why Discussion activities

14. Discussion activities can be undertaken using a
variety of methods:
– Discussion forums (e.g. Blackboard)
– Voice boards (e.g. VoiceThread)
– Instant Messaging (e.g. Skype, Google
Hangouts, Facebook)
– Comments posted to wikis or blogs
– Closed Social Networking Sites (e.g. Yammer,
Slack)
Why Discussion activities

15. Discussion tools - Blackboard

16. This might be:
• Discussion
• Debate
• Brainstorm
• Small group activities
• Problem Solving
• Knowledge Transfer
• Research
• The tools you can use there include Threads,
Attachments, Email Subscription
Facilitated Activity - Discussion

17. Moderating a discussion in an online environment is called e-
moderation.
The role of the trainer as an e-moderator is to:
•provide the rules of the discussion
•offer an opening gambit, the provocative statement, scene setting
•rephrase what learners have said to ensure their point is clearly stated, if
necessary
•provide links from one aspect of the discussion to the other
•draw together the disparate threads of the discussion to form a
conclusion.
•Encourage, over time, learners/participants to take moderation
responsibility around new topics and a fresh voice
Moderated Activity - Discussion

18. What is the facilitators role?
Rules of
the game
Share
stories
Summarise
Promote
interaction
ExtendLink points

19. Synchronous Facilitation

20. Virtual Classroom tools

21. Virtual Classroom Tools
Tool Possible Use
PowerPoint Your presentation & ? prompts
Video Upload or YouTube share
Polling Test mood or experiences/opinion
Application
sharing
Demonstrate software/explain documents,
assessment etc.
Chat Sharing, participating, building relationships
Whiteboard Drawing, showing, brainstorming
Break out room Smaller in room spaces for small group work
Webtour* Follow facilitator through a website

22. Online classroom models
All
Online
Polysyncronous
Live Facilitator
Polysyncronous
Online Facilitator
Recording
w/o learners

23. Facilitation Strategies

24. Read and respond in Chat
• Short paragraph
• Read and respond in a minute
• Write – Wait – Go! - Respond

25. Visit
Questions
Report
Industry
knowledge
interviews
Group project
mentor
Reference
Group
Assessment
supervisor
orientation
Guest Speaker

26. Scenario (guest speaker)
How would you need to brief a guest speaker about the
virtual classroom? What advice can you give?

27. Polling – BC

28. Polling – Google forms

29. Brainstorm
Question
Confirm
consensus
Clarify
outside
consensus
What’s
missing?
Solutions /
Strategies

30. What are the barriers to you
facilitating in an online classroom?

31. Topic Template
Specify
Activities
Present Monitor Improvement
Submit
Student presentations

32. Describe a presentation students can present in your
online classroom

33. Peer Review
Develop
Rubric
Map &
distribute
Learner
presents
Conduct
Peer
Review
Assess Publish

34. Peer review is knowledge building. Describe an assessment task
that can be used to build, assess and evaluate peers task?

35. Role Plays
Communication Counselling Customers Team Scenarios
English Consulting Listening Negotiating

36. Is there space in your courses for role plays? Either way -
share a potential role play for your virtual classroom sessions

37. Finish this sentence
(Chat or Whiteboard)
“I truly believe in the benefits of online
learning; but only for those who really
want to learn. And unfortunately, those
students……..

38. Finish this sentence
(Chat or Whiteboard)
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-05-31-unpacking-the-problem-of-
unmotivated-online-students

39. What can best practice online classroom
facilitation look like at Swinburne?

40. Scenario (brainstorm)
Your manager asks you to develop a strategy to replace 25% of your units delivered
face to face with webinar delivery
What types of units you deliver are the best type for a VC delivery? Why?

41. Scenario/Problem/Story
(brainstorm)
Story type How use
Case Study Contextualise information and process
using real life example (tell a story)
Scenario Exploration of information and process
using real life example (brainstorm)
Decision
making tree
Decision making applying information
using real life example (scaffold to
LMS)

42. Scenario (read and respond)
What is your reaction to this
statement? How do we do this?
Our past experiences have a great
influence on how we learn so we
need to:
emphasise learning, not teaching
encourage learners to use
initiative and be independent
encourage learners to interact
with other
learners/teacher/mentor
support co-operative learning
Write – 2 minutes
Wait –
Go! –
Respond

43. What is the facilitators role?
Break the
ice
Share
stories
Manage
groups
Promote
interaction
Ask
questions
Lecture

44. Information
Demonstration
Case Studies
Discussion
Modelling
Problem Solving
Scenario
Contingency
“What if”
Comprehension
Practice
Assessment
Content to share in VC
Blue – Definitely
Green – Maybe
Red - No

45. Action Learning
• Define the workplace problem
• Objective questioning
• Describe the problems dimensions
• Clarify the problem is understood
• Subjective strategic resolution
suggestions
• Narrow to find solution strategy with
good fit
• Nominate peer to support
implementation
• De-brief

46. Group Projects
• Meeting place to undertake group
projects
• Strong evidence
• Participation and role taking
• Agreements and timelines
• Store recordings
• Compliments existing individual
assessments

47. Flipped Classroom
• Record webinar knowledge
session
in advance of face to face
class
• Students review in own time
• Learners apply knowledge to
skills
based activities in face to face
class

48. What are the gurus saying
about BL?

49. UoW on facilitating webinars.
“In order to create an engaging
learning experience, the role of
instructor is optional, but the role of
learner is essential.” - Bernard Bull
“When it comes to the design of
effective learning experiences, one
provocative question is worth a
hundred proclamations.” - Bernard
Bull

50. Peter Drucker on Peer Review
Knowledge has to be improved,
challenged, and increased
constantly, or it vanishes.
We now accept the fact that learning
is a lifelong process of keeping
abreast of change. And the most
pressing task is to teach people how
to learn.
Peter Drucker

51. UoW Group projects
“Specific strategies are needed to
effectively implement online group
projects. These included such things
as how to help the students get to
know
one another, form groups, assign
grades, explain group functions, use
online tools to maximize interaction,
and how to deal with non-
participation of group members…”
Facilitation of Online Group Projects:

52. Cathy Moore
We design activities, not
information. When instruction
is part of the solution, we
don’t preach or present to
learners. Instead, we let them
practice what they need to do
and draw conclusions from
that experience like the
grownups they are, and for
that reason we rock scenarios.

53. Scenario (polling)
What is the best use of discussions for your
learners?
1. Q n A forum
2. Community of practice
3. Assessment
4. Group Work
5. Something else

54. Polling – Google forms

55. Polling – Other tools

56. Application sharing – Ass Task 3

57. File sharing – Ass Task 3

58. File sharing – Ass Task 3

59. Submit
plan
Create
virtual
classroom
delivery
plan
Respond
to others
plan
Assessment 2
Template
&
Feedback
Due Wednesday
21st June 2017
Forum feedback
Due Friday 16th
June 2017
Your template

60. Assessment 2
1. Pre Virtual Classroom Activity:
You need to prepare a pre Virtual Classroom activity
that prepares and warms up your learners to your
activities and content. You will use a discussion
activity that leaners complete prior to your virtual
classroom session. You might pose a problem, ask for
a reflection, research a top, share a case study for
response etc. Use the template below to show your
planning

61. Assessment 2 – Pre Virtual Classroom Activity
Potential Activities
Provide a discussion
forum based activity
that prepares
learners for the
content and
activities you will
provide in your 15
minute virtual
classroom session.
Plan Virtual Classroom Session
Template

62. Assessment 2 – Pre Virtual Classroom Activity
Where to discuss? – Go beyond iLearn if u want

63. Assessment 2 – Pre Virtual Classroom Activity
Plan Virtual Classroom Session
Template
• Reading
• Guide questions
• Review key points using
a quick brainstorm
• Scaffold off to broader
questions
• Prepare a précis to
enable slackers to
participate

64. Assessment 2 – Pre Virtual Classroom Activity
Where to facilitate live?
https://zoom.us/

65. Assessment 2 – Pre Virtual Classroom Activity

66. Assessment 2
2. Virtual Classroom Session:
Prepare for a 15 minute virtual classroom session by
outlining the icebreakers you will use at the start of
the session.
Also describe 2 learning activities and I summarising
activity you will facilitate. Use the template below to
show your planning.

67. Assessment 2 –Virtual Classroom Activity
Potential Activities
Think
fun/interaction!
Plan Virtual Classroom Session
Template

68. Assessment 2 –Virtual Classroom Activity

69. Assessment 2 –Virtual Classroom Activity

70. Facilitate
Evaluate
VC session
Forum
Survey
learners
Journal
evaluation
Assessment 3
Facilitate
Evaluate
Improve
Due Thursday 28th
Tuesday July 4th
2017
Due Friday 14th
July
Your facilitation
session
Your journals

71. Til next we meet
• Look out for regular small activities to
complete in Quitch
• Complete TASK activities in
Quitch/Blackboard over to complete
Assessment Task 1
• Make a start on your template or gather your
ideas for feedback or discussion next session
• Regroup back here together on
Tuesday 6th June 530-730 Get Real or
Virtual
(How to set up Forum,VoiceThread,
Collaborate sessions & Quitch)

73. Thank you for playing