Special Issue: Open Facilitator Stories
Singh, Lenandlar · Nerantzi, Chrissi · Spiers, Alex · Cullen, Rod · Forsyth, Rachel · Jones, Anne · Gray, Colin · Reed, Peter · The Open Facilitator Project Team [corporate]
| Published | October 2015 |
| Periodical | Edition 1, Volume 11 |
| Publisher | Learning and Teaching in Action |
ABSTRACT
Welcome to the Open Facilitator Project…We are a team of open educators passionate about enhancing the learner and facilitator experience in open educational offers of different sizes, small, large or extra large. We feel that facilitator presence and engagement plays a key role in learning. If you have experience facilitating an open course and would like to share and/or reflect on this experience, please consider the following:
Contribute to the Open Facilitator Handbook
We would like to create a dynamic handbook with the wider practitioners community that is envisaged to become a useful resource and guide for anybody embarking on open facilitation. Please click here to access the Open Facilitator Handbook and contribute.
Share your Open Facilitator Story
Share your authentic open facilitation experience with the wider community. Each year stories will be made available as an annual Open Facilitator Stories collection, made available under a Creative Commons licence and become open data. Submitting your story means, that you are in agreement with this. To submit your story add it directly to the relevant section of the Open Facilitator Handbook.
| Keywords | assessment · · online learning · open content |
| Refereed | Does not apply |
| Rights | by/4.0 |
| DOI | http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/ltia/index.php |
| URL | http://booktype.okfn.org/open-facilitator-handbook/_draft/_v/1.0/about-this-book/ |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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