Without doubt, careful consideration of instructional design elements, such as topic relevancy/difficulty, student and instructor roles, and facilitation styles, is critical to ensure interactive and mindful learning via online discussion.
Facilitation is a style of interaction that encourages a group to solve its own problems.
Reasons for dropping out of the groups included: dominating group members, feeling patronised by some facilitators' lecturing style, feeling pressure to contribute to group activities, feeling they were not learning anything new or because of a lack of proper facilitation of the group.
It consists of three key interactive elements: evidence (research, clinical experience and patient preference), context (culture, leadership and measurement) and facilitation (characteristics, role and style) [ 13].
The interview guide for participants was thematically designed incorporating questions about style of facilitation, meeting cultural/language needs, application of behavioural change techniques, and delivery of content.
In that light, the goal of all interactions is a nondirective style toward facilitation of self-actualization, self-realization and helping the client to explore barriers to expressing goals for therapy and make appropriate decisions for treatment.
It is of sufficient scale to provide indicative findings of the process, methods and styles of facilitation that were employed.
He describes six dimensions that describe group activity: planning, meaning, confronting, feeling, structuring and valuing and three styles of facilitation: hierarchy, co-operation and autonomy.
