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What Role the Instructor?

Published on February 28 2005

Does the business-focused corporate university rely solely on e-learning and other "instructorless" forms of trasferring knowledge and stimulating learning, or do instructors play a role?

Tom Kelly and Nader Nanjiani of Cisco describe how Cisco University has evolved the role of traditional instructor into one of of coach, facilitator, and guide.

Good teachers have always been learning facilitators. They guide, point out previous thinking, assess skills and readiness and then expose the learner to new information, or construct experiences where the learning can take place.

It is only the poor teacher who believes that information and pedegogy alone create learning.

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