Whether you’re trying to create a learning community for the students starting your course or trying to nurture a community of practice for your business or organisation, one of the key elements of your strategy should be welcoming your participants. Every e-moderator should have welcoming techniques in their e-moderating toolbox.
Despite the tremendous value that an online community can bring to a organisation or business, it’s never really true that “if you build it they will come”. There are all sorts of reasons why online communities may fail. Recently many commentators have been covering the The Wall Street Journal Article
For an elearning course led by a tutor to be effective, the tutor presence is one of the most important elements. Showing good e-moderating practice the tutor must: login regularly model good online behaviour be seen to be present post encouraging messages for students respond to student queries as quickly
One of the steps to facilitating deeper learning is to get your group of learners to “gel”. Icebreakers and group work can help to get students working together and supporting each others’ learning. This needs to happen in the online environment as much as in the classroom and is one
My son is in the middle of GCSEs and I’ve been giving him the best piece of advice I know for success in exams – read the question! It sounds basic, but it is surprising how easy it is, especially in a stressful situation such as an exam, to miss
Is the motivation of online learners changing as the web itself – and the techniques and technologies available to educators – evolves? I was writing about motivation of online learners for the eModerating and Online Tutoring course I’m tutoring next week. I’ve been teaching this unit for a few years
5 weeks – online – in Moodle Starts 4th June 2008contact helen AT reachfurther.com I am running an eModerating and Online Tutoring course in partnership with Park Lane College in Leeds. This is an introductory course for those starting to or planning to teach online in HE, FE or even
A post from 2006 in Learning Alliances defines the concept of “technology stewardship” “Technology stewards are people with enough experience of the workings of a community to understand its technology needs, and enough experience with technology to take leadership in addressing those needs. Stewardship typically includes selecting and configuring technology,
There are all sorts of reasons why one wants to analyse an online community – finding out who are the busiest and most informative posters is one possible requirement. I just spotted an old article from New Scientist (well, July 2007) that describes how researchers at Cornell University, New York,
Do you use e-learning or learning technologies such as discussion forums etc. in teaching? Have you used or adapted Salmon’s 5-stage model or e-tivities framework in your teaching? Or have you used it at any time in the past few years? Gilly Salmon’s 5-stage model and e-tivities framework have been