Book Review ~ E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online. Author: Gilly Salmon

dc.creator	Reviewed by Dan Eastmond
dc.date	2003-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:05:03Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:05:03Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ffc9f308d5fa432a991cce5b6a4144ff
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/9503
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/ffc9f308d5fa432a991cce5b6a4144ff
dc.description	No one doubts that the Internet has permanently changed the face of higher education. One of the institutions to experiment, foster, and promote computer-conferencing from its inception through to current Web-based forms is the Open University of the United Kingdom (OU UK). From 1988, OU UK’s few online offerings have grown to over 160 Web-based courses in which over 100,000 students participate. Having been a student-participant in one of these early courses back in 1992, I read with intrigue Salmon’s description of this effort. I remember logging on from Syracuse, New York to the text-only online course with four e-moderators and 45 other participants scattered throughout the world – from Israel, Australia, Latin America, the United States, but mainly Great Britain. I recalled the frustration of trying to get connected to the conference at 1:00 a.m. with my 9600 baud modem, relying on a tech-savvy fellow graduate student to figure out the problems. What a thrill it was to upload and download messages to these threaded discussions located on a server hundreds of miles across the ocean, to ruminate throughout the day about the conversations I read there, and to return to the conference the next day to post my thoughts and to find responses to my contributions as our conversations unfolded.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/125/205
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 4, Iss 1 (2003)
dc.subject	distance education
dc.subject	book review
dc.subject	e-learning
dc.subject	moderation
dc.subject	e-moderation
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Book Review ~ E-Moderating: The Key to Teaching and Learning Online. Author: Gilly Salmon
dc.type	Article