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

[principal at dit.ac.tz]

Hallo Boubakar,
thank you for the information. best regards, kondoro


> 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****
>
> ** **
>
> 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.****
>
>  ****
>
> 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.
>  ****
>
>  ****
>
>  ****
>
> 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****
>
>  ****
>
> 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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