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• 30 Aug 08
  

  Shane Roberts
  • difficult to adopt and maintain the role of facilitator to a group studying your field
  • expert
• 24 Aug 08
  

  Illya Arnet
  • The biggest challenge I am finding is the expectation for a teacher or instructor while everyone talks about a facilitator. I don’t think someone can be both, primarily because a teacher inherits a significant amount of power and traditional roles that counter act the more neutral and passive presence of a facilitator.
  • That’s when I realized that losing the teacherly voice has nothing to do with losing the voice of an expert. You see, I’d thought that, in order to be a co-participant and a co-learner, I had to learn along with my students. Nonsense. I discovered that they need a figure of authority, someone who knows the topic well, who is an expert and can offer advice, support, and assist them as they engage with the material. The facilitator still needs to be the content expert. That is why people come to us - because they want to learn from us, not with us.
• 19 Aug 08
  

  Gabriela Sellart

  facilitating facilitation teaching education learning

  • find the answers more quickly and efficiently
  • Ultimately they are unprepared for the facilitated and individually responsible and self motivated learning environment I try to encourage
  • 2 more annotations...
  • • The teach and instruct methods are a safe bet.
    • My view is that probably too much is expected of learners that are new to a participatory approach to learning. They need time to get to a decent level of understanding of the subject matter and to a new way of learning.
• 11 Aug 08
  

  elderbob brannan

  Online_Facilitation

• 15 Jul 08
  

  Barbara Reid

  facilitate education

• 02 Jul 08
  

  Stephan Ridgway

  Blog post by Leigh Blackall on the tole of the teacher and facilitator and struggle to become the later

  education networkedlearning

• 22 Nov 07
  

  peneli m

  • As I teach and facilitate various online courses this year, a lot of the theories and concepts I subscribe to are getting some hard testing. The biggest challenge I am finding is the expectation for a teacher or instructor while everyone talks about a facilitator. I don’t think someone can be both, primarily because a teacher inherits a significant amount of power and traditional roles that counter act the more neutral and passive presence of a facilitator. This post will be a series of thoughts about this tension, and some ideas on how I can better manage my attempts at online learning community facilitation.

    
    

    There’s a teacher at the party

• 04 Nov 07
  

  Jennifer Maddrell

  Links

• 12 Oct 07
  

  Dean Shareski

  education teaching

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