Creating the elearning experience Which way is forward

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Creating the e-learning experience(Which way is
forward?)
2001

• Dr Gilly Salmon
• Open University Business School
• BEST Conference
• Windermere

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Gilly Salmon

• Centre for Information Innovation, Open
  University Business School
• E-learning consultant, in commerce industry
  (mainly airlines financial services)

• United States Open University, MBA Program
  director E-learning consultant
• Visiting Professor, School of Management
  Economics, Queens Belfast.

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Shaping the Future?
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ICT in management learning
ICT in business
Accurate transmission information
Critical exploration generating new knowedge
New skills managers as leaders, half-life of
knowledge handle information multi-skilled
teams remote teams
Convergence of managing and learning?
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The way forward?

• Training of online management teachers

• Engaging learners
• productive networked learning activities

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Modelling e-learning
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5-steps to e-learning
development
Knowledge construction
Information exchange
Socialisation induction
Access motivation
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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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Introducing e-moderating
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E-moderatingPurposeful Online

• Moderators preside over meetings

• E-moderators convene and orchestrate electronic
  meetings

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Building a wave of e-moderators key
characteristics for management business
confident constructive
develop- mental facilitating
knowledge sharing creative
recruit
develop
train
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Scarcity amongst management business educators!

• empathic skills
• flexibility to working, teaching and learning
  online
• a willingness to be trained and developed into
  the e-moderating role

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They train to

• Engage in reflective practice
• engage managers to recognise experiential
  narrowness, be open to evidence

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Online training for e-moderators
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E-moderating training for industry
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Global E-moderating training plus e-tivities!
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Introducing e-tivities
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E-moderator skills preparation facilitation
E-tivities Engagement Mobilisation
Authenticity
E-tivities
Communication support
discussion
Shared research
Collaborative projects
Creativity knowledge construction
Student skills working together
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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 prepare
  positioning chart (30 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
• Elapsed time 18 days, student study time 100
  mins.

Week One
Week Two
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E-tivities Key Design features

• Purpose
• Participant numbers
• Interaction Structure
• Collaboration
• Interaction structure
• E-lapsed time
• E-moderators time
• E-moderator action

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Research

• staff development or training model
• as a course design model to provide pacing,
  process and structure
• management lecturers of the future.

• recruiting, training developing people as
  e-moderators
• student engagement, mobilisatione-tivities
• knowledge generation synchronous online

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CONTACT other PAPERS
Many thanks for your attention

• Contact G.K.Salmon_at_open.ac.uk
• Papers http//oubs.open.ac.uk/gilly
• Book web site http//oubs.open.ac.uk/e-moderating
  
• online course http//www.centrinity.com (click
  training, then e-moderating)