Overview
Interest in online teaching, learning and training continues to grow, yet one thing remains constant: the key role of the e-moderator in ensuring the quality and success of online learning. This book – an online learning classic – is essential for anyone teaching online or developing online courses and process.
Practical and accessible, E-moderating is a user’s guide to working effectively in the virtual world, covering key areas including: the why, what and how of e-moderating; becoming a good e-moderator; the benefits to learners of e-moderating; training to become an effective e-moderator; and featuring a unique collection of resources for practitioners.
Synopsis
This groundbreaking new book considers what is required of good moderators and presents practical information for their training and development, set in the context of the rapid development and combination of Information and Communications Technologies and the wide impact these are having in open and distance learning.In addition, this highly topical and forward looking book introduces the reader to the latest thinking in online computer mediated education, and explores the key role of the trainer, teacher or tutor as moderator. Tried and tested techniques are outlined and the book explains how to set up an online environment that will maximize the success of the moderator when working with students. Moderators, trainers, lecturers, academics, and course developers currently working in or planning to move towards online teaching will benefit from this book. E-Moderating is a new addition to the leading edge Open and Distance Learning series.
Quarterly Review of Distance Education
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!.