This year the Facilitating Online course will be running three times with the following cohorts:

6 June – 29 July – Apply by 23 May 2022  (extended deadline)

5 September – 28 October – Apply by 19 August 2022

For all cohorts please apply here

About the course

Facilitating Online provides a solid foundation for facilitating online events and courses. It is registered as a short course at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Facilitating Online was developed by the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) at UCT and is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as part of its support for the e/merge Africa network. It is convened by Tony Carr and co-facilitated by facilitators from across Africa.

We consider applications in the order in which they arrive so earlier applications stand a higher chance of being accepted

Recommendations by participants

“I learned many facilitation skills that I am now able to apply with my own students. I would recommend the course highly to anyone embarking on the online teaching and learning journey.”
Dr Judith McKenzie, Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town.

“This course doesn’t just teach you ABOUT online Facilitation, it actually gets you to facilitate … It’s a real opportunity to learn and develop. And what’s more? It has an African taste…”
Daniel Adeboye, Online Maths Tutor, Tutor for the Future

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Date and Time: Tuesday, 22 February 2022: 13:00 – 15:00 SAST

Leading the workshop: The e/merge Africa Team.

Description of the session:  

In designing meetings, learning activities and workshops our most generative and productive experiences are found in the zone between the extremes of total control (which silences participants) and a complete absence of structure (thus no focus for shared engagement). Liberating structures are meeting processes designed to provide just enough structure to unleash the brilliance and creativity of a group of people. Liberating Structures were originally designed for face to face interaction and have been extensively applied to online engagement during the pandemic. 

The e/merge Africa team will introduce the concept of Liberating Structures and facilitate a highly experiential workshop which features five structures, namely: Waterfall, Impromptu Networking, Spiral Journal, 1-2-4-All and Conversation Cafe’. The  Liberating Structures website features 33 of the over 50 structures that have been developed. 

To join please sign up via Zoom here 

The e/merge Africa Team

Tony Carr is an Educational Technologist in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at University of Cape Town and convenor of e/merge Africa. 

Dr Alice Barlow-Zambodla is e/Merge Africa Network Regional Coordinator for Southern and East Africa

Jakob Pedersen is Project Manager for e/merge Africa, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT), University of Cape Town

Irene Maweu is an Online Facilitator for e/merge Africa Facilitating Online Course

For more about the team please see here

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/137699809709364

Twitter:     

@emergeAfrica

@tony_emerge

@wavinya66

@jakobp

@alicebz

Resources:  https://www.liberatingstructures.com/

Session format: Interactive immersion Session 

Date and Time: Tuesday, 14 December: 11:00 – 13:00 SAST

Leading the workshop: The e/merge Africa Team.

To join this workshop please sign up via Zoom

Description of the session:  

In designing meetings, learning activities and workshops our most generative and productive experiences are found in the zone between the extremes of total control (which silences participants) and a complete absence of structure (thus no focus for shared engagement). Liberating structures are meeting processes designed to provide just enough structure to unleash the brilliance and creativity of a group of people. Liberating Structures were originally designed for face to face interaction and have been extensively applied to online engagement during the pandemic. 

The e/merge Africa team will introduce the concept of Liberating Structures and facilitate a highly experiential workshop which features five structures, namely: Waterfall, Impromptu Networking, Spiral Journal, 1-2-4-All and Conversation Cafe’. The Liberating Structures website features 33 of the over 50 structures that have been developed. 

The e/merge Africa Team

Tony Carr is an Educational Technologist in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at University of Cape Town and convenor of e/merge Africa. 

Dr Alice Barlow-Zambodla is e/Merge Africa Network Regional Coordinator for Southern and East Africa

Jakob Pedersen is Project Manager for e/merge Africa, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT), University of Cape Town

Irene Maweu is an Online Facilitator for e/merge Africa Facilitating Online Course

Zoom registration: 

https://uct-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sf-yrqT8rEte7rpUOOy3yoKpQU-GNvOz2

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/137699809709364

Twitter:     

@emergeAfrica

@tony_emerge

@wavinya66

@jakobp_emerge

@alicebz

Resources:  https://www.liberatingstructures.com/