Published
August 10, 2007
Keywords
- online professional development,
- adult learning
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Abstract
Web-based practice is currently being described and analyzed extensively, but so far the literature shows few examples of frank, intrapersonal practitioner reflection about that practice. This reflective analysis of an online professional development event illustrates in three narratives and a meta-reflection how three practitioners negotiated the conceptual framework, the activity design, and the roles and presence of the two online facilitators. In addition to reviewing their knowledge of generic adult learning facilitation principles and online moderation issues, the authors show how they examined their experience and developed-not without some cognitive and affective difficulties-some insights into better managing the dynamic tensions of online discussions and reframing their expectations of participants' behaviors.
Les pratiques sur le Web font actuellement l'objet de descriptions et d'analyses détaillées mais, malgré tout, la littérature fournit peu d'exemples de réflexion franche et intrapersonnelle d'intervenants relativement à leur pratique. Cette analyse réflective d'un événement de développement professionnel en ligne illustre, en trois récits et une méta-réflexion, comment trois praticiens ont traité le cadre conceptuel, le design d'activités ainsi que les rôles et la présence de deux auxiliaires en ligne. En plus de revoir leurs connaissances des principes génériques à appliquer pour faciliter l'apprentissage chez les adultes et des questions portant sur l'animation en ligne, les auteurs montrent comment ils ont perçu leur expérience et développé leur perspicacité, non sans difficulté cognitive et affective, pour mieux gérer les tensions dynamiques générées par les discussions en ligne et recadrer leurs attentes face aux comportements des participants.