Lessons from e-facilitation and online microteaching
In week 10, me and my group members had a practicum on e-facilitation where we had the opportunity to design a week's worth of learning activities and material on an online learning platform. And then in week 13, we just did a microteaching session online. In this blog, I want to reflect on what I have learned from these two activities and what it means for my own practices on online teaching. First, the decision by our course coordinator to have the e-facilitation occur on Moodle, a learning platform that most of us are familiar with, given the contexts we teach in, really made the task accessible. At the same time, by working in groups, it also allowed us to learn from each other tricks, ideas and new tools that can be used in the platform. Given that we teach in this platform, the value of using it to try things out has long-term consequences for our own teaching practices. It already has led me to use one of the new tricks (how to link completion of one activity to th