Developing emoderators for edemocracy

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Developing e-moderators for e-democracy

• Dr Gilly Salmon Open University Business School
• Emily Salmon David Shepherd
• All Things in Moderation Ltd.

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to promote human intervention to enable
participants in online forums to
AIMS

• hear all sides of a political issue
• express their points of view and respond to those
  of others
• know that they are being listened to by
  politicians and/or decision makers
• know that their opinions will be taken into
  account

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Janison toolbox
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course structure

• 5 stage model
• 1 week per stage
• constructivist/dialogue based but within
  framework of
• E-tivities
• Highly active support facilitation
• point of learning exit questionnaire

• 15-20 participants and one e-convenor
• 25 hours over 5 weeks
• Short frequent log ins

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pilot course

• September 2002
• Two e-convenors supported trained by
  experienced e-moderators
• Some adjustments made more resources on
  e-democracy and more about evaluation of
  discussions

• 5 more courses run since
• Participants from 5 continents
• Participants have consultation roles in
• Civil Service
• Local Authorities
• National Assemblies
• Voluntary organisations

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sparks for discussion
Task centredness
Process navigation
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spark
invitation
participation
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Personal reflections weaving, summarising
reporting, preparing a personal development plan
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results outcomes
Testing the course process

• 5 stage model asynchronous e-tivities
  approach acceptable successful when transferred
  to the democracy context

• application of the 5-steps and a scaffolding
  approach to participation on forums
• the importance of and ability to weave, summarise
  and represent a variety of ideas and contributions

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results outcomes
Exploring the online environment

• Working online is alien
• Working constructively through text based
  dialogue needs to be learned practised

• Online skills were much improved
• Confidence to create run successful online
  forums for democratic purposes were much
  increased

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results outcomes
Promoting e-democracy
New means of conducting traditional democratic
processes e.g. consultations, Voting, opinion
collecting forming.
Wider vision be your own politician worldwide
activation
Trained e-democracy e-moderators will promote both
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Delegates comments
the subject is new, the course is new I was
delighted to participate with the intellect
behind this course the quality of the
participants I am very confident that great
things will emerge
learning from other participants interesting,
enjoyable and worthwhile. The course was
structured in a way to make this easy
Some chaos representing the experience of
online forums!
I recommend the course to colleagues (but
prepare them to invest time in it)
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further development

• More courses planned for 2004
• Wider audiences sought, e.g. young people
• Possible special verioned courses e.g.for UK
  Local Authorities
• Exploration  of developing participants

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Contact Follow Up
Many thanks for your attention

• Contact
• G.K.Salmon_at_open.ac.uk
• David_at_atimod.com
• Course web site

http//www.hansard-society.org.uk/etraining.htm