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This is the best-selling book for anyone faced with teaching online or developing online courses or training materials. Gilly Salmon is acknowledged as one of the pioneers of good online teaching and her wide experience - at the Open University and in commercial training - is distilled in this major work. This new edition brings this rapidly-changing area bang up to date, with fresh case studies, extra references and resources and a new chapter presenting possible future scenarios for e-moderators. The new edition will be accompanied by a useful website, which will expand on the material contained in the book and provide links to useful sites.

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Reviews of the first edition: 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 EducationbA must read for distance learning educators.b -- The Journal of Excellence in Higher Education Reviews of the first edition: 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 EducationbA must read for distance learning educators.b -- The Journal of Excellence in Higher Education

Reviews of the first edition: 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 EducationbA must read for distance learning educators.b -- The Journal of Excellence in Higher Education

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Professor Gilly Salmon works as an academic member of the Centre for Information and Innovation at the Open University Business School in the UK. A well-known pioneer of online teaching, she also trains and consults for a wide range of commercial organizations.

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