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Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 12:12 PM
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Dear All,

 

This might be of interest for you or colleagues you know.

Boubakar

 

From: Tony Carr [mailto:Tony.Carr@uct.ac.za]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 9:56 AM
To: emerge-l@lists.uct.ac.za
Subject: [Emerge-l] Online Facilitation Course: Applications Open

 

Dear colleagues,

 
We invite applications from educational technologists and educators based at African universities to participate in a free five week course in online facilitation funded by the Ford Foundation. A maximum of 20 participants can be accommodated.  Course participation will be entirely online and will require 8 hours of participation per week. Facilitating Online was developed by the Centre for Educational Technology at University of Cape Town and is registered as a short course at the University of Cape Town.  A certificate of completion will be awarded for successful completion of the course and specified online facilitation activities within nine months from the end of the course. Conference hosts from the e/merge 2006 and e/merge 2008 online conferences will be able to apply to join the e/merge 2012 facilitation team without participating in this course.
 
Target participants
 
The course is aimed atexperienced educators at higher education institutions in Africa who have reliable internet access and the opportunity to run courses or components of their courses online.  Selection criteria include:
·         previous experience of online teaching and learning
·         at least five years' experience as a university educator or educational technologist
·         willingness to teach future online facilitation courses in their local/regional context or
·         willingness to be a conference host for the e/merge online conferences or a pilot educational technology network across African universities.

 

All applicants will require a letter of support from their line manager or Head of Department. 

Course Facilitators:

Tony Carr is the Staff Development and Curriculum Projects Co-ordinator at the Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town, South Africa. 
Gerrit Wissing is a Senior Instructional Designer at the Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa.
 
Deadlines and course schedule
The course schedule includes reflection time and takes account of the complex and busy lives of participants by building in a break of a week after each fortnight of course activity.
 
21 March: Deadline for applications
27 March: Successful candidates informed
9 April - 15 April: Week 0 (Entering site, addressing technical issues, introductions)
16 April - 21 April: Week 1
22 April - 28 April: Week 2
6 May - 12 May: Week 3
20 May - 26 May : Week 4
3 June - 9 June: Week 5
 
Application
 
Pleaseapply with a covering letter, CV and letter of support from your line manager or Head of Department by e-mail to facilitationcourse@emerge2012.net. Please address all inquiries to the same e-mail address.
 

 

 

Tony Carr
Staff Development and Curriculum Projects Coordinator

Centre for Educational Technology
University of Cape Town
phone: +27216505033
e-mail: tony.carr@uct.ac.za

 

Please note that as of 15th August 2011 Stephen Marquard is the Acting Director of CET. He can be contacted directly on stephen.marquard@uct.ac.za .

 

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