Edited by Jonathan Turner, Wednesday, 2 Jan 2013, 06:48
Competences for online teaching, Unit 4 Part 1
A first reaction is great, this is just what we need! A list of competences feeds nicely into a portfolio we could even list the competences and then evidence of how we have achieved each one (or not).
I would like to comment on the BANA (British, Australian and North American) bias of so much of what we studied, take the following
"We explore online teaching by reporting on a two-day workshop with practitioners and researchers from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean."
There is an implicit assumption that first both sides of the Atlantic means the UK (possibly other Western European countries) and the US and Canada. Second the implication is that this is a good thing! It would seem more appropriate to say that it represents a partial view of practitioners from Europe and the US or some such... I don't say is to be PC, I say it because of my 18 years' experience in education, 12 of them have been outside the regions implied here and there is a lot going on too!
The article then goes not to look at three perspective on measuring what teachers do, a competence based, a humanistic and a cognivitist, before settling on a competence based. This a a relief because first competences are readily understandable and indeed applicable, whereas the other paradigms are more problematic because they are more complex. Second because I have experience of developing competences for teacher in English language teaching, so I'm on familiar territory!
The article then give us the following link to look at what specific competences have been developed, I'm going to take a look at this and think about incorporating it into my own portfolio and perhaps using it in my role as PD coordinator in my institution...
The article then goes not to describe the six main task areas for online teachers, which I prefer to think of as domains...
The Process Facilitator
The Adviser-Counselor
The Assessor
The Researcher
The Content Facilitator
The Technologist
The Designer
The Manager-Administrator
I'm a bit fuzzy on the differences between process and content facilitation, but the rest of them are pretty clear, I found myself rating myself in each area and I could see even from the very brief explanations offered where I would like to improve...
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Competences for online teaching, Unit 4 Part 1
A first reaction is great, this is just what we need! A list of competences feeds nicely into a portfolio we could even list the competences and then evidence of how we have achieved each one (or not).
I would like to comment on the BANA (British, Australian and North American) bias of so much of what we studied, take the following
"We explore online teaching by reporting on a two-day workshop with practitioners and researchers from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean."
There is an implicit assumption that first both sides of the Atlantic means the UK (possibly other Western European countries) and the US and Canada. Second the implication is that this is a good thing! It would seem more appropriate to say that it represents a partial view of practitioners from Europe and the US or some such... I don't say is to be PC, I say it because of my 18 years' experience in education, 12 of them have been outside the regions implied here and there is a lot going on too!
The article then goes not to look at three perspective on measuring what teachers do, a competence based, a humanistic and a cognivitist, before settling on a competence based. This a a relief because first competences are readily understandable and indeed applicable, whereas the other paradigms are more problematic because they are more complex. Second because I have experience of developing competences for teacher in English language teaching, so I'm on familiar territory!
http://csalt.lancs.ac.uk/Goodyear/cot/details.htm
The article then give us the following link to look at what specific competences have been developed, I'm going to take a look at this and think about incorporating it into my own portfolio and perhaps using it in my role as PD coordinator in my institution...
The article then goes not to describe the six main task areas for online teachers, which I prefer to think of as domains...
The Process Facilitator
The Adviser-Counselor
The Assessor
The Researcher
The Content Facilitator
The Technologist
The Designer
The Manager-Administrator
I'm a bit fuzzy on the differences between process and content facilitation, but the rest of them are pretty clear, I found myself rating myself in each area and I could see even from the very brief explanations offered where I would like to improve...