[afren] Fwd: FW: [Emerge-l] Online Facilitation Course: Applications Open

[Boubakar Barry]

Dear All,

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

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

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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
*<http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/Centre-for-Higher-Education-Development/Centre-for-Educational-Technology/Facilitating-Online>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 at* experienced 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.****

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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*

Please* apply with a covering letter, CV and letter of support from your
line manager or Head of Department by e-mail to **
facilitationcourse at emerge2012.net*
<facilitationcourse at emerge2012.net>*.*Please address all inquiries to
the same e-mail address.
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Tony Carr
Staff Development and Curriculum Projects Coordinator****

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

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