What can educators and facilitators learn from each other to benefit their practice? And where do the two crossover?
These are wide-ranging questions and the kind that open up rabbit holes of complexity… but this is exactly why I wanted to explore them with Bjarne Holmes.
Bjarne is a Professor of Psychology at Champlain College, a relationships expert, and a researcher for the remote video conferencing tool InSpace. His experience of both facilitation and education, with the added factor of developing a remote learning tool, made him the perfect person to explore this topic.
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Questions and Answers
[01:13] When did you start calling yourself a facilitator – do you at all?
[03:48] Do you find yourself applying the same skills in teaching as you did in mountaineering?
[06:53] When participants are key to the success of a workshop, does that remove the concept of a ‘leader’?
[09:45] How did you get rid of your ego?
[10:49] How do you create learning experiences for your students?
[13:03] Why do people overprepare?
[18:25] How can educators challenge the default status of being on a pedestal and breaking the concept of ‘the person teaching and the people learning’?
[24:06] Is it the educator or the student’s responsibility if a student zones out?
[29:45] You mentioned that your classes take breaks every 20 minutes?
[30:51] Does the fact we talk about collaboration, rather than lecturing, show that our education system has developed recently?
[38:26] What have you learned from your research into relationships that helped you become a better educator and facilitator?
[42:13] What makes a workshop fail?
[43:06] Is it easier to facilitate experiential learning in an online environment?
[56:58] Do you think teachers are hesitant to adopt new tools because they don’t want to risk ‘not knowing’?
[01:02:41] Can we create digital tools that enhance learning experiences, rather than just replicate them?
[01:07:55] What is the one thing you would like listeners to take away from this episode?
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