Peer facilitation
As you think about the learning you are embarking upon here at the university, reflect on the role that your instructors and fellow students play in facilitating yours and their learning. What are they doing? How is it facilitating learning and teamwork based on what you have experienced so far? What has been useful? What would you like to see and experience that you haven’t yet in the facilitation of this course from yourself, peers and faculty? What can you contribute as a peer facilitator? For your commenting on others’ blogs this week, maybe you notice where another colleague has contributed to your learning through their facilitation and let them know when/where it happened and how it was of value to you. Are you game for that?
Learning is something tat works best when everyone has the same goals. Here at the university, all students and teachers have the same interests and therefore helping each others learning a lot better than I used to have in high school. Everyone actively commits to facilitating each others learning by joining in in class, asking and answering questions, doing their blog posts and posing interesting videos and pages in the facebook group. This is useful as this way we learn more and in a happier, more interesting manner.
Before coming to university, I expected a lot of lectures and little interaction between students and teachers. It seems to be completely different from what I expected. The interaction between students and teachers is pretty constant and not very formal. We use the internet a lot, on many different platforms. We seem to have very few lectures, allowing for a lot of discussion time. This facilitates teamwork very well.