by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 23, 2018 | Learning design, Online facilitation, Workshops
Last October I co-facilitated the “FLO Synchronous” course for the third time, with a class of over 20 people from various BC post-secondary institutions. FLO Synchronous is short for “Facilitating Learning Online: Synchronous”, a three-week...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 21, 2017 | Facilitation, Online facilitation
Last week I wrote a post detailing Part 1 of my experience trying out Facebook Live, and I shared a few things that I learned while getting started with this tool. In this post I want to share with you some of the things I learned while doing the session itself and...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 15, 2017 | Educational technology, Facilitation, Online facilitation
Yesterday I took a small leap for my business and tried out the new Facebook Live. Well, I suppose this livestreaming feature isn’t so “new” anymore, but I feel like I haven’t seen a lot of people doing it yet and wanted to jump on board. I was...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Feb 24, 2016 | Facilitation, Online facilitation
Last week I was in Vancouver, attending a two and a half day workshop called “Liberating Structures” offered through BC Campus and the UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology. I had learned about Liberating Structures only last summer, when one of...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Feb 14, 2016 | Facilitation, Learning design, Online facilitation
Right now I’m involved in teaching two courses, both online. Course A is a nine-week credit course and Course B is a five-week non-credit course. I’m teaching Course A for the first time and I’ve taught Course B many times. Teaching Course A is a...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 9, 2015 | Learning design, Online facilitation
I heard it again recently from someone: “I learn best in a face to face class.” It makes me cringe every time. Don’t get me wrong, I love teaching and learning with people in person as well but I want to highlight that just because you’re...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Nov 6, 2014 | Online facilitation
Well, October went by in a flash, didn’t it? I spent the entire month co-facilitating a blended model course in volunteer management with colleagues from Volunteer Victoria (my old workplace as well) and over the weekend I shifted from ramp-down mode on that...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Sep 11, 2014 | Facilitation, Online facilitation, Workshops
Today I was at Volunteer Victoria meeting with my co-facilitators for the upcoming Leading Volunteers: Foundations in Volunteer Management course. This is the blended model course that I was lucky to be able to develop in 2012 that has become even better over time....
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jul 5, 2014 | Online facilitation
I’ve taught nine asynchronous online courses over the past two years, all of which were longer than four weeks each, and I learned something useful about online facilitation going through every one of them. As a result, here are “three Ts” –...
