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Welcome to LRNT 528 – Facilitating in Digital Learning Environments

The physical location of Royal Roads University is located on the territory of the Songees and Esquimalt Nations. Take a moment to listen to Chief Ron Sam’s welcome.
Chiefs’ Traditional Welcome 

Course Overview

In this course, you will design and facilitate a digital learning experience on a contemporary issue of interest. This experiential course enables you to put into practice many skills and competencies that you have learned throughout your degree, and empowers you to use them to facilitate a learning experience for your peers.

Throughout the course, you will gain a deep and nuanced perspective on designing and facilitating digital learning by using tools and practices that experienced professionals employ in their day-to-day work.

The unique feature of this course is its extensive experiential component! In particular, you will:

  • Collaboratively design and deliver a weeklong learning module, grounded in online learning theories and models.
  • Participate as a learner in learning modules developed and delivered by your peers.
  • Develop practical skills in online learning facilitation.
  • Evaluate and provide peer feedback on your experiences, both as a facilitator and as a learner.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Demonstrate appropriate use of student-centred facilitation strategies.
  2. Design a digital learning experience on a contemporary issue.
  3. Facilitate a digital learning experience on a contemporary issue.
  4. Compare and contrast digital learning facilitation strategies.
  5. Evaluate a facilitated digital learning experience.

Stay Connected

To your instructor Mary Burgess

  • Email: mburgess@royalroads.ca

To the class via the Moodle discussion forums. This will be the main hub of conversation in the course. 

To each other via the course blog and your own WordPress blogs using Feedly. Don’t forget to add the ‘LRNT 528 Posts’ OPML file and the ‘All Comments’ OPML file to your feedly.  For a reminder on how to add the OPML file to your Feedly, please see: Use OPML to add your entire cohort to Feedly

AI Use In LRNT 528

In this course, you may use generative AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) to support your learning only if you meet the following conditions:

  1. Transparency: You must clearly state, within each submission where AI was used, the name of the AI tool, the specific tasks it performed, and how you incorporated its output into your own work. Use the AI Transparency Statement provided below.
  2. Supplement, Not Substitute: AI can assist with brainstorming, organizing, or refining ideas, but it cannot replace your own critical thinking, analysis, or writing.
  3. Accountability: You are responsible for fact-checking AI output, ensuring proper citations, and meeting course expectations.
  4. Alignment with RRU Policy: This policy follows the Royal Roads University Generative AI Guidance (May 2024) and the Academic Integrity & Misconduct – Students policy (2024). Any use of AI that misrepresents authorship, bypasses the learning process, or violates these policies will be treated as academic misconduct.
  5. Good Practice: Keep drafts, version history, or screenshots of your process in case questions arise.