Planning a Learning Environment Design Experience

Below, I am applying the LEDx framework to the Facilitation workshop.

I would first start out the class by getting to know not only my instructors but discovering what they know about facilitating an online learning environment. Right now, my instructors delve right into the content and I do not have a clear understanding of where they are coming from.

This goes along with the discover phase for me, but I would also like to know what they believe makes a good facilitator in general and how that applies to online learning or if they think there's no connection. I need to know what they believe they will get out of this course and how they plan to achieve those objectives.

UCO has a solid Facilitation workshop as it is now, however, I would definitely add more examples for the instructors such as video tutorials, podcasts, images, etc. My instructors learn a great deal from each other so it would be a great idea to include examples from current online facilitators so they can see what their peers are doing in their courses.

The final project is the hands-on portion of the workshop where the instructors build out items in D2L. I would like to build upon this and have them create a "How to Teach This Course" guide as well that incorporates all of the best practices they've learned in the course.