Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Target group:
Professionals working in development cooperation who are facilitating online discussion groups or a "commu-
nity of practice". Professionals interested or involved in web based training or e-learning.
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Content:
The participants will...
get a deep insight into chances and limits of online collaboration
use collaborative internet tools, open discussion groups, take part in group discussions and learn how to
moderate them, use helpful software tools...
learn the theory of effective online team work
get to know quality factors for good didactical material
take part in online brainstormings, work out documents using online cooperation methods, rework docu-
ments, reach an agreement about procedures, combine and arrange solutions to problems and put the re-
sults online
reflect their work regularly with other participants and establish a culture of feedback that is informative,
humane, transparent and motivating
be able to use the experiences gained in their own team later on
Methods:
The course will make use of the following methods:
Synchronous live online meetings, for kick-off; development of a common commitment; weekly reflections
(chat room) and planning further steps of collaboration
Asynchronous collaboration, for moderated group work; discussion groups; reflection of own work; gather-
ing, putting in order and presenting results
Workload:
You should expect a workload of about 4-8 hours per week
Course location:
The course will take place in the internet environment "myNetWorks" (http://www.mynetworks.org ) and will be
entirely online.
Course providers:
AGRIDEA http://www.agridea-lindau.ch/internat/ in collaboration with the myNetWorks consortium
(http://www.mynetworks.org)
Instructors:
Dr. Gabriela Renggli, Swiss Centre for Agricultural Extension (LBL), CH-8315 Lindau, email:
gabriela.renggli@agridea.ch; and Andreas Schoenborn, myNetWorks consortium, email:
schoenborn@armadillo-media.ch
Language:
The course will be offered in English language.
Participants:
15-20 participants
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Course fees: 790 Euro / person.
Duration / Date: Course duration will be four (4) weeks, from February 26th till March 23rd, 2007
entirely online at http://www-mynetworks.org
Week 1 Using and testing the platform and its tools: Course instructors,
Warm-up: Creative chain story writing, edit the personal profiles, posting news group e-moderators
and portrait information for everybody
Asynchronous work according to the Learning Path: study documents and make
remarks, forum discussions, becoming acquainted with each other.
Questions and Answers in the Help-Desk (in preparation, will start in week 2)
Week 2 Live-meeting*, second Monday: Reflection about first collaboration, lessons learnt Course instructors,
and planning of the coming week group e-moderators
Activity of cooperation: moderated group work (expert brainstorming, group
puzzle, riddle CYBERWORLD or suggestions by participants)
Asynchronous work according to the Learning Path: study documents,
forum discussions, mutual support.
Questions and answers in the Help-Desk (how to master situations in e-
moderating, Dos and Donts in e-moderation, helpful tools like mind mapping)
Week 3 Live-meeting*, third Monday: Reflection about our collaboration, lessons learnt, feed- Course instructors,
back on meta-level, planning of the coming week & set up teams group e-moderators
Activity of cooperation: start transfer into practice: negotiate suggested subjects
or projects and make a choice for moderated group work.
Asynchronous work according to the Learning Path: study documents and
document review, forum discussions including summaries and syntheses, mu-
tual support.
Questions and answers in the Help-Desk (Forum Hot Chair with Dos and
Donts in e-moderation, plus how to master situations in e-moderating, techni-
cal questions, additional software recommendations e.g., Hot Potatoes)
Week 4 Live-meeting*, fourth Monday: Online case show of the transfer into practice- Course instructors,
projects, recommendations and support from the plenary about further work in detail. group e-moderators
Activity of cooperation: go on with transfer into practice, realisation of the project
ideas as far as possible using all the competences of group members. Publish the
solution online and evaluate it.
Asynchronous work according to the Learning Path: lively forum discus-
sions, mutual support, establish networking.
Live-Meeting*: weekly 1 hour meeting in the plenary, preferably as chat. Exact point of time will be announced in the course.
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Information:
For more information please contact the course instructors Gabriela Renggli, gabriela.renggli@agridea.ch or
Andreas Schoenborn, schoenborn@armadillo-media.ch
Once you are registered as community member, or if you already are a member:
Log in with your user name and password
Go to the subscription page of the e-moderation training course
http://www.mynetworks.org/tcb/page.php?id=919&courseid=2522 to subscribe to the course.
We are looking forward to your subscription as well as having you with us on board!
With best regards from your course instructors
Gabriela Renggli Andreas Schnborn