These included an increased understanding and awareness of facilitation, teaching, assessment and feedback techniques [ 4, 18, 23, 25, 30, 31]; development of leadership qualities [ 24]; ability to admit uncertainty [ 20]; development of confidence; [ 20, 24] fostering a willingness to contribute to the education of others [ 18, 24]; and autonomy in learning [ 18].
Mobile devices such as tablets could be of a great value in facilitation of the teaching and learning process in competency-based curricula [ 13].
The importance of facilitation and not teaching in the contact time was shown.
Some successful for-profit models of online provision have benefited from using a different staff structure to that of UK HE institutions, with freelance tutors focusing on facilitation, teaching and assessment, with no expectation of engaging in research activity.
Indeed, this is probably one of the crucial distinctions that must be made in relation to PAL, in that the role of the PT should be one of facilitation rather than of teaching [ 29].
[F]or-profit models of online provision have benefited from using a different staff structure to that of UK HE institutions, with freelance tutors focusing on facilitation, teaching and assessment.
(HEFCE, 2009, p. 9) [F]or-profit models of online provision have benefited from using a different staff structure to that of UK HE institutions, with freelance tutors focusing on facilitation, teaching and assessment.
As each successive training round entailed increased hand-over of teaching and facilitation responsibility to Mother Patern faculty, training and mentoring faculty through course instruction was imperative.
To prevent possible scaling bias, the first group of raters included two senior examiners with more than 10 years of teaching and exam facilitation experience who were also members of the exam committee.
The second group of raters included two junior instructors with two to three years of teaching and exam facilitation experience; they were not members of the exam committee and had not been involved in exam question preparation or revision.
