Teaching & Facilitation

The Art of Hosting is a three-day leadership training course that scales up from the personal to the systemic using leadership practices to enable co-creation of innovations for complex challenges. Participants learn models and practices to maximize personal leadership abilities and collective intelligence while learning to transform conflict into creative solutions.

Conventional structures used to organize how people routinely work together stifle inclusion and engagement, but there is a better way to engage teams in problem solving and creative ideation. Liberating Structures are a set of 33+ “seriously fun” activities which aim to effectively bring groups together in inclusive and collaborative ways. They are processes that can be used with groups of any kind. They support engagement, collaboration, and innovation.

Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) Design is a four-week online course that offers participants opportunities to explore different approaches to developing effective asynchronous online courses. FLO Design is a foundation course in the Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) collection of courses and complements FLO Fundamentals, which focuses on asynchronous online facilitation skills and strategies, and FLO Synchronous, which focuses on design and facilitation of synchronous online learning.

Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) - Fundamentals is a five-week online course that is focused on developing teaching skills for asynchronous online learning. Over the course of the five weeks, you will learn strategies to create active learning environments online for your students, facilitate or co-facilitate a pre-designed learning activity, and receive feedback from your peers. FLO Fundamentals gives you the opportunity to develop your online facilitation skills with other new and experienced facilitators. This workshop is designed for core faculty, associate faculty, and staff in facilitation or support roles of online or blended courses, regardless of experience level.

This one-day workshop will explore a variety of activities for your facilitator toolbox that help build trust with participants and respond to energy highs and lows. Learn opening activities that help set the tone, closing activities that help a group finish strong, and in-between activities that support transitions and tricky moments.

Working with groups takes more than just booking a time to get together and have a conversation. It takes an intentional, planned approach and effective facilitation skills and strategies to support groups through the work they need to do. Whether supporting a group to vision or plan, engage stakeholders or make decisions, a facilitator can be a crucial and effective presence. If you are interested in working with groups as a facilitator, or currently do this work and could use some extra skills and strategies to ground your practice more fully, this workshop will help you get there.

Intercultural Foundations for Education (IFE) is a 4-week online course focused on developing intercultural teaching and learning competencies. You will have opportunities to review the intercultural learning research and apply key concepts to your teaching/facilitation practice. You will also have access to interdisciplinary collegial dialogue, instructional resources, and learning activities on culturally responsive teaching methods that can enhance your current practice. This course is designed for equity, diversity, and inclusion practitioners in academic, school, workplace, and community education contexts who are interested in developing knowledge and skills in facilitating intercultural learning.

The Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) is a three-day face-to-face workshop that is focused on developing and reinvigorating teaching skills for face-to-face learning. ISW is a participatory workshop that affirms the instructional techniques you already do well, while encouraging you to take risks and try more. Over the course of this 3-day intensive workshop, you will learn and practice effective teaching skills to create an active and engaging learning environment for your students. You will see innovative activities modeled by facilitators and other participants. Over the three days, you will facilitate three ten-minute “mini lessons”, give and receive peer feedback, and learn from others’ examples. Please note that our ISW includes a self-paced online learning module of preparatory learning (approx. 5 hours) that all participants are expected to complete before Day 1.

Moodle: Editing & Enhancing Online (MEEO) is the online version of Moodle: Editing & Enhancing. This online course focuses on developing the skills to build and edit a Moodle course. You will learn about common activities and resources in Moodle and get hands-on practice adding to and editing a Moodle course in your own “sandbox” site. This workshop is designed for staff and faculty who already have basic Moodle navigation skills.

Moodle: Editing & Enhancing is a three-hour on-campus workshop that focuses on developing the skills to build and edit a Moodle course. You will learn about common activities and resources in Moodle and get hands-on practice adding to and editing a Moodle course in your own “sandbox” site. This workshop is designed for staff and faculty who already have basic Moodle navigation skills.

Moodle: Getting Around is a two-hour workshop that focuses on learning the basics of navigating around a Moodle course. This workshop will introduce you to everything you need to know to get started using Moodle, from logging in to finding and using different activities and resources in Moodle. This workshop is designed for staff or faculty who are new to Moodle or looking for a refresher of Moodle fundamentals.

This four-week interactive course is intended for new and experienced facilitators who wish to take their skills to a new level. The course provides participants with a structured process and facilitation tools that can be applied to any type of session where active participation, meaningful and productive engagement is critical. Participants will be required to plan and conduct sessions and will receive feedback from the instructor and colleagues. The course consists of weekly one-hour synchronous session as well as team meetings.