Learning to Facilitate Online
Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) courses offer engaging learning experiences that explore approaches, understandings, and solutions to help you become an effective online instructor. FLO courses are grounded in research about teaching and learning online and have been designed by experienced learning designers and educators.
Upcoming FLO offerings
FLO Lab: Progressive Rubrics - Using AI to Drive Student Growth
January 15, 2025
Elevate your assessment with progressive rubrics emphasizing student achievement rather than areas for improvement. This hands-on workshop will guide you in using AI to create rubrics that inspire and motivate students by providing clear, structured pathways for growth. Participants will explore key concepts, collaborate on rubric creation using AI and their...
FLO MicroCourse: Designing for Accessibility Using POUR Principles
January 20, 2025 - January 24, 2025
Join us for this free one-week Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) MicroCourse as we explore how to design accessible eLearning experiences by applying the four principles of the POUR framework: Perceivability, Operability, Understandability, and Robustness. These principles are the foundation of the international Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. During this week,...
FLO Friday: Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)
January 31, 2025
This one-hour Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) Friday workshop will explore how Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) environments present unique challenges for both learners and educators. Join us for a discussion on effective strategies for facilitating COIL. While the session will primarily focus on teaching considerations, we will also explore...
FLO MicroCourse: Digital Well-Being Through an Indigenous Lens
February 3, 2025 - February 7, 2025
Join us for this free one-week Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) MicroCourse, which offers participants the opportunity to consider and reflect on their own digital well-being, the well-being of learners, and how this work can contribute to the broader journey of reconciliation.Learning Outcomes Successful participants will...
FLO Lab: Embedding Principles of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion into Course Design
February 5, 2025
Do you want to create a learning environment that considers the diverse lived experiences of your students? In this three-hour Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) Lab session, we will start by exploring current frameworks for course design (such as Universal Design for Learning and quality assurance) and determine what...
FLO Friday: Climate Conscious AI Use - Wrestling with Environmental Impacts
February 7, 2025
This workshop provides a space to pause and reflect on an important ethical concern in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI): its environmental impacts and overall sustainability. What actions, if any, can we take as individual users? What can we do as institutions? We will start by...
FLO Friday: ShouldAI, CouldAI, WouldAI?
February 28, 2025
In this one-hour Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) Friday workshop, participants will formulate “ShouldAI, CouldAI, WouldAI?” questions to discuss the use of AI in their classes and assessments. Participants will explore how AI could be used to support achievement and to enhance student success and they will collaborate on developing a curriculum considering current and future AI use. Facilitator: Jenny FitzgeraldThis session will be recorded, archived,...
The FLO family of offerings includes:
- FLO: Fundamentals – a five-week introduction to online facilitation that explores adult and online learning principles, techniques, and technologies to support student learning and instructor presence, as well as how to deal with common challenges that arise in online courses.
- FLO: Synchronous – a three-week immersion into the planning and facilitating of synchronous online sessions. This course will help you deliver better webinars, online office hours, and other online sessions with more confidence and creativity.
- FLO: Design – a four-week design course that helps participants develop online course design skills and try new techniques and strategies to create effective, engaging, online learning experiences. This course complements the Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) Fundamentals course which focuses on facilitation skills and strategies.
- FLO: MicroCourses – one-week asynchronous emergent courses related to designing and facilitating learning online.
- FLO: Labs – Three-hour experiential synchronous workshops with a focus on pedagogy.
- FLO: Fridays – One-hour facilitated online synchronous sessions.
- FLO Panel – quarterly online gathering and panel discussion on hot and trendy topics impacting the post-secondary educator sector.
Adopting FLO
All FLO course are OERs! Some of the FLO open educational resource courses that might be of interest for adoption are:
FLO Fundamentals (five weeks), FLO Design (four weeks), FLO Synchronous (three weeks), and a wide range of one-week FLO MicroCourses with topics such as Make Your Course Intro Video, Design with Liberating Structures, and more.
If you’re interested in adopting a FLO course for your needs, contact Helena Prins by email, hprins@bccampus.ca.
Become a FLO Facilitator
If you want to join the family of FLO facilitators, email hprins@bccampus.ca with your ideas.
Join the FLO Community
Do you have a question about FLO or are you looking to engage with the collective wisdom of the FLO community of facilitators? Join FLO Discussions on Mattermost to connect, learn, and share insights!