E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online (Open and Distance Learning Series)) [Paperback]

Gilly Salmon (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0749431105 | ISBN-13: 978-0749431105 | Publication Date: April 1, 2000 | Edition: 1

E-moderators are the new generation of teachers and trainers who work with learners online. There has been explosive growth in online teaching and learning, training, resources and events, and the e-moderator is central to its quality and success. This book, based on Gilly Salmon's considerable experience and research, explains the qualities and competencies required of those teaching, training or developing materials in the online field, and how their skills can be developed. It presents a user's guide to working effectively in the virtual world, backed up with case studies and specific information about how to be a successful e-moderator, along with a collection of resources for practitioners, original research material and learner-oriented consideration of outcomes. Contents include: What is e-moderating?; CMC in education and training; E-moderating, the key to the future of online teaching; and resources for practitioners. The book is also accompanied by its own website. "E-Moderating" is for any and all teachers, instructors, tutors or facilitators operating in any electronic environment. From simply posting notes on the Internet at the end of a physical teaching or training session through to fully-fledged distance learning, it makes full use of the most up-to-date communications and information technology. It should also be valuable reading for software designers, teachers in schools, and for anyone with management responsibilities in education or training.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"There have been many times when I have wished that I had the "resources for practitioners" that Gilly Salmon has collected, with all the techniques, tips, and tricks together in one place....[The] five-stage model is probably her strongest contribution to the e-moderator's knowledge base. This model accurately reflects students' experience and has been tested and refined over several years and many students and e-moderators. It can be easily adapted to any location and used with any kind of conferencing system. The resources in the second half of the book [can] apply to the North American conferencing environment [and] should be required reading for all those involved in the e-moderating enterprise, regardless of their roles. Is the book worth ordering from your ... Bookstore? You bet!." --Quarterly Review of Distance Education

About the Author

Dr Gilly Salmon is a member of the Centre for Information and Innovation at the Open University Business School and is School of Management and Economics Visiting Professor at Queen's University, Belfast. She has extensive personal experience of teaching and e-moderating in open and distance education and training. Along with researching teaching and learning online, she explores creativity, imagery and cognitive mapping for change management.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (April 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0749431105
• ISBN-13: 978-0749431105
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,644,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I recomend to buy this book, August 3, 2000

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Fernando (Madrid, Madrid Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online (Open and Distance Learning Series)) (Paperback)

If you are a e-teaching or you are in the e-learning business, you must buy and read this book. This book explain the e-teaching work, how to moderate a online class without lose the control, how to train and monitoring a e-moderator,... talk about the important things in the success of the work of a e-teacher/e-moderator. I found this book very informative, I recomend it!.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Primer, November 18, 2001

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Paul R Trahair - See all my reviews

This review is from: E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online (Open and Distance Learning Series)) (Paperback)

Discussion groups are an invaluable tool in distance learning and this book is a really useful guide to planning, implementing and managing them. If you follow the steps she outlines, it's hard to see how you could go wrong. If you're doing discussion groups - get it!

5.0 out of 5 stars For more than distance education...., August 10, 2000

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Nancy White "Full Circle Associates" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online (Open and Distance Learning Series)) (Paperback)

Although this book is aimed at those teaching/facilitating in a distance learning setting, Salmon's advice and approaches are sound and right on target. The last third of the ook, "resources for e-moderators," is terrific for many online facilitation settings beyond distance ed, especially distance teams/workgroups, communities of practice etc. Some may find them a bit conservative for more free-wheeling social spaces and virtual communities. But her advice rings very true to me.

I particularly enjoyed the case studies and examples sprinkled throughout the book. I found myself nodding, taking notes and putting stickies in the book - a sign that this is a book I can come back to and use again and again. I plan to reference it in my next online facilitation course!

Nancy White