A Facilitation Process towards Student-Centred Learning in Blended and Online Education

Dr Panos VlachopoulosEDC

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

To teach (online) or not to teach?

Photo adapted from :http://oberonshakespearestudygroup.blogspot.com/ and modified by Panos

Learning from history – or standing on the shoulders of giants?

Lev Vygotsky Carl Rogers

Confucian Heritage Culture

Teaching is the purposeful creation of situations from which motivated learners should not be able to escape without learning or developing.

How can we define teaching, then?

...and what about student-centred learning?

Ring-fencing learner-directed learning

Student-centred learning

PROGRAMME AIMS

PRINCIPLESTASK(S)

ROLES

E-moderator’spurpose

Significantevent

E-moderator’sstyle

Learning position

ASSESSMENT

CRITERIA

DESIGN NEGOTIATION

FACILITATIONResponse

Discussion...or so what?

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