I. Concepts and Cases
1. E-moderating
2. 5 stage model (text)
3. 5 stage model (21st century technologies)
4. E-moderating qualities and roles
5. Training e-moderators
6. Developing E-moderating skills
7. Participants’ experience
8. Future e-moderating
II. Resources for Practitioners
Scaffolding online learning
Achieving online socialisation
Achieving knowledge sharing
Developing e-moderators
Costs
Summarising and Weaving
Taming Online time
Promoting cultural understandings
Creating presence
Housekeeping
Promoting Active Participation
Assessing learning
Evaluating conferencing
E-moderating for synchronous conferencing
E-moderating for virtual worlds
E-moderating for Podcasting
Monitoring E-moderating
Encouraging self-managing groups
Helping online novices
Understanding lurking
What’s going on?
What will we call ourselves?
Communicating online
References
Index
Biography
Gilly Salmon spent six years as head of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance and the Media Zoos at the University of Leicester (www.le.ac.uk/mediazoo).She is now Professor of Learning Futures and Executive Director of the Australian Digital Futures Institute at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia (www.usq.edu.au/adfi).
"The book is carefully crafted and supported with evidence, examples, and resources for practical guidelines, making it potentially transformational for all practitioners. This is a “must have” book for researchers and practitioners alike." ― Charalambos Vrasidas, Educational Media International
