Developing your E-moderating

Skills
GCE 10th December 2001

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 Dr. Gilly Salmon

 Centre for Innovation,  Visiting Professor,

Knowledge & Glasgow Caledonian
Enterprise, Open Business School
University Business  United States Open
School, UK University, MBA
 E-learning consultant, Program director &
in commerce & E-learning consultant
industry 2000-2001

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  Introductions
 Key issues in e-moderating
 Key skills in e-moderating
 Explaining E-tivities- what, why, how…
 Examples & illustrations

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 Key Issues

 Time
 Participation:
lack of
too much

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 Key e-moderating skills

 See handout!

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 Autotelic e-moderating
 An autotelic is someone good at translating
threats into challenges.
 They constantly create focus, short-term
goals
 Give close attention to the group they are
working with.
 They visualise the group’s success &
engage it in achieving it
 How? They create and run e-tivities!
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 What are e-tivities?
 Participative group work online:interaction
between learners/students & active student
contribution
 Motivating,engaging & purposeful
 Designed & led by an e-moderator
 Usually asynchronous (i.e over time)
 Cheap & easy to run- usually simple text based
bulletin boards
 Blended or online only

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 2 main views of developing
online learning processes
Cognitive/ Moderated interaction
behaviourist
This
workshop
focuses
here

Human intervention & support

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 What are e-tivities?

 Participative group work online

 Motivating,engaging & purposeful
 Based on interaction between learners/students &
active student contribution
 Designed & led by an e-moderator
 Usually asynchronous (i.e over time)
 Cheap & easy to run- usually simple text based bulletin
boards
 On or off campus, blended or online only
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 Key features of e-tivities
 1. Illustrative title
 2. Small piece of information, stimulus or
challenge.
 3. Online action which includes individual
participants posting a response
 4. Interactive or participative element- such as
responding to the postings of others
 5. Elapsed time allowed, posting times required
 6. Summary, feedback or critique from e-
moderator
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inf posting

posting posting
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posting

Summary/
plenary
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 Purposeful
e-tivities DVPT.
Develop each
e-tivity to address KNOWLEDGE
either one stage of CONSTRUCT
the 5
and/or movement INF. EXCHANGE
between them

SOCIALISATION

ACCESS

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 Online training for e-moderators

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 E-moderating training for industry

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 Developing E-moderators in the US

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 Global E-moderating training plus e-tivities!

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 Level 1

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 Level 2

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 Level 3

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 Level 4
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 Level 5
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 Ask
key questions
Ask for
comment
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 F:f to online
group activities
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 An example from Management course
(intro to marketing)
Face to Face Seminar
 choose advert from magazine given out,
 discuss in 4 x 5 group features and benefits
of product
 prepare positioning chart (showing market
segment, target audience etc.
 present findings and discuss with other
groups in plenary
 total time for exercise: 75 mins

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 Online group e-tivity for 20 students:
introduction to marketing

brief
 E-mod advises choice of
national newspaper and day
 4 x 5 online groups choose and Week
prepare positioning chart (30 One
mins online, 45 mins offline)
 after one week, post findings
and “discuss” with other groups
in group conference (30 mins)
 E-mod summarizes after one
week Week
Elapsed time: 18 days, student Two
study time 100 mins.

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 Your turn

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 E-tivities key design features
 Purpose (stage?)
 Participant numbers DVPT.

 Interaction Structure
KNOWLEDGE
 Collaboration CONSTRUCT

 Interaction structure INF. EXCHANGE

 E-lapsed time SOCIALISATION

 E-moderators time ACCESS

 E-moderator action

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 Contact & Follow Up
 Contact & feedback on workshop
G.K.Salmon@open.ac.uk
 Papers http://oubs.open.ac.uk/gilly
 Book web site:
http://oubs.open.ac.uk/e-moderating
 course: http://www.centrinity.com/e-
moderating

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