Building a course on the run [educational course]

Is it possible to offer a course with no resources and no content? Yes. One of TAFE South Australia´s newest training modules, Moderate and Facilitate Online, is delivered this way. It is based on the premise that participants bring to the table a host of knowledge and experience that can form the basis of collaborative learning. Participants initially use each other as resources, moving out to examine existing resources and creating their own later in the course. Delivering a course this way ensures that the responsibility and ownership of its outcomes is shared by all, and gives participants first hand experience of a constructivist and collaborative approach that reflects the oft referred to paradigm shift in Net based learning. This presentation focuses on the process of delivering a course that evolves daily, and demonstrate how a learning platform can be an effective host for constructing a course in this fashion. It is often said that the use of platforms plays a proscriptive role in how online courses are delivered and structured, but this presentation attempts to demonstrate that the use of a platform in this approach simply facilitates the evolution of the course.