Gilly Salmon's book on
e-moderating. The model for CMC she presents in the book can be quite
useful (both as a guide for planning and designing CMC, and a description
of what may evolve in stages over time). The training of e-moderators is
one other key topic. The book also has practical materials for
practitioners in the Resources section. You may want to check the web site
accompanying the book: http://oubs.open.ac.uk/e-moderating
Review of E-moderating - The Key to Teaching and Learning Onlline.
Open and Distance Learning Series. Gilly Salmon; Reviewed by N. A. J.
Moore. Language Learning & Technology. Available at:
http://llt.msu.edu/vol6num3/review1/default.html
While you are about it you might as well have a look at these brief
articles by two other leading practitioners:
http://www.emoderators.com/moderators/morten.html (Morten Flate Paulsen,
NKI College of Computer Science, Oslo, Norway)
http://www.emoderators.com/papers/mason.html (Robin Mason, Institute of
Educational Technology, OU UK)
Daf has finally finished sorting out the messages for week 5, you will
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