[su_dropcap style=”simple” size=”4″]I[/su_dropcap]n the recent years, the term “facilitating” or “facilitator” is gaining popularity in the education world. Many nowadays strongly hold the belief that facilitating is a better way to help humans learn. Let’s take a look at these two terms and what their roles are in the learning process.

A lecturer and a facilitator are both educators. A lecturer is usually someone found teaching in a college or university setting delivering lectures to students. This could be the tenured professor at your university, a guest lecturer who is an expert from the practical or professional field, or sometimes an assistant professor delivering a more general topic of lecture to first year students. A lecture is usually delivered to a large group, anything from ten to a hundred, sometimes even more students at the same time.