E-Moderating

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).

• I. Concepts and Cases1. E-moderating2. 5 stage model (text)3. 5 stage model (21st century technologies)4. E-moderating qualities and roles5. Training e-moderators 6. Developing E-moderating skills 7. Participants’ experience8. Future e-moderatingII. Resources for PractitionersScaffolding online learningAchieving online socialisationAchieving knowledge sharingDeveloping e-moderatorsCostsSummarising and WeavingTaming Online timePromoting cultural understandingsCreating presenceHousekeepingPromoting Active ParticipationAssessing learningEvaluating conferencingE-moderating for synchronous conferencingE-moderating for virtual worldsE-moderating for PodcastingMonitoring E-moderatingEncouraging self-managing groupsHelping online novicesUnderstanding lurkingWhat’s going on?What will we call ourselves?Communicating onlineReferences Index

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