3 Initial Thoughts, Ideas, or Feelings about Facilitation in Digital Environments
- When facilitating digital environments, ensuring that all participants have access to the necessary tools, resources, and support is important. Some learners can get left behind because of the lack of access to the learning content. Making content easily accessible can reduce the cognitive load on a learner and help them focus on what they are learning.
- Facilitating in a digital space requires more creative and out of the box ways to keep learners engaged. Building rapport and connection with the learners can be challenging for a facilitator but it is possible.
- Digital facilitation will always have technical issues. Nomatter how well prepared a facilitator can be , there is always room for the unexpected technical challenge.
2 Questions about Digital Facilitation
- How can a digital environment be made more inclusive so that it can meet the requirements and preferences of different people?
- What are some soft skills that make a good digital facilitator?
1 Metaphor about Digital Facilitation
The digital medium is the message.
Ano, I love what you said about cognitive load and how you tie that to accessibility, such a great point. When someone is struggling because the learning isn’t well designed for their needs, the struggle can easily take over the learning, not to mention the ability to participate in the learning community.