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 Friday: Towards Trauma-Aware Teaching
September 20, 2024
Join us for a workshop aimed at building educational tools for trauma-aware teaching practice. The workshop engages the research of Dr. Sandra VanderKaay (2023) at McMaster University and her "Do it Anyway!" resource for Trauma-Informed Pedagogical Strategies. Facilitator: Ki WightLearning Outcomes By the end of this session,...
FLO MicroCourse: Decolonizing Pedagogies – Reframing the Ways We Teach
September 23, 2024 - September 27, 2024
Join us for this free one-week Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) MicroCourse offering you opportunities to reframe some of the pedagogical approaches that could be hindering your journey towards reconciliation. Each day will introduce a new approach or resource aimed at weaving Indigenous perspectives into our...
FLO Friday: Neurodiversity in Post-Secondary Education - Supporting Students
October 4, 2024
In this FLO Friday session, we will delve into the world of neurodiversity to uncover the invisible disabilities affecting an estimated one in five adults. Whether you are well-versed in neurodiversity or are just becoming aware of the variation in human neurological conditions, this webinar...
FLO MicroCourse: Video Design and Creation
October 7, 2024 - October 11, 2024
In this free one-week Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) MicroCourse, participants will learn a design and creation paradigm for creating engaging educational videos. During the week, each participant will create a short video using the principles learned in this MicroCourse. Video has tremendous power, both to support learning...
FLO Friday: Mindfully Using Technology in the Classroom
October 18, 2024
Join us for this free 1-hour Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) session that will highlight different aspects of being mindful in our selection, utilization, and purpose of bringing technology into the classroom. Topics range from protecting personal information, to providing alternatives if students are uncomfortable sharing...
FLO Panel: Let's Talk About Faculty Well-Being
October 22, 2024
Faculty fatigue has been identified as one of the most pressing teaching and learning challenges in higher education. Join us for a panel conversation focused on faculty well-being. While we often discuss how to support the well-being of our students, it is important for us...
FLO MicroCourse: Embracing Emotional Intelligence and AI for Inclusive Education
October 28, 2024 - November 1, 2024
Join this one-week Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) MicroCourse and explore the intersection of emotional intelligence (EI) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in the context of higher education. Participants, including students, faculty members, and staff will explore various aspects of EI and GenAI, focusing on...
FLO MicroCourse: Strengthening Our Teaching Through Reciprocal Peer Observations
November 18, 2024 - November 22, 2024
Teaching is often a solitary practice; we rarely invite colleagues into our classrooms or see how our colleagues teach. This is often due to academic structures and because it can feel intimidating. However, discussions and feedback from peers can help us strengthen our teaching skills,...
FLO Lab: Digital Scholarship in Social Sciences – Exploring the Digital Humanities
November 27, 2024
This three-hour Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) Lab is designed to engage post-secondary social science educators and aims to explore the concept of digital scholarship through the lens of digital humanities.The workshop’s objective is to enhance participants’ understanding of digital literacy as outlined in British Columbia’s Digital...
FLO Friday: Creating an Inclusive Classroom Using Learner-Centred Design
November 29, 2024
This one-hour Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) Friday workshop will explore the transformative power of learner-centred design in fostering inclusivity in virtual educational settings. Drawing on the wisdom of group collaboration and leveraging tools and techniques from Liberating Structures, this session will delve into practical strategies and...
FLO Friday: SoundWaves in Education - The Art of Teaching Online with Sound
December 6, 2024
Join us for this free, 1-hour Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) Friday workshop on how sound can be effectively utilized in an online learning environment. This presentation explores the principles of sonic pedagogy and demonstrates practical applications for online teaching. Participants will gain insights into the...
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 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...
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!