Reclaiming the Territory for the Natives Presented to Online Learning London 2324th November 1999

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Reclaiming the Territory for the
NativesPresented to Online LearningLondon
23-24th November 1999

• Dr. Gilly Salmon
• Open University Business School

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ReView and Reclamation

• Mixed Responses to Stakeholders of online
  learning
• Poor take-up, even where high access and
  availability
• Productive Purposeful and Integration of online
  learning still low

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Why?

• ...no evidence that learners are able or willing
  to do without teachers, no matter how well
  designed the materials, how extensive the
  resources or how just in time the learning.
  The fundamental role of the teacher or tutor has
  not changed but the mode of operation has.
• Robin Mason

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Why?

• the cornerstone is the inspiration from a
  teacher who both understands the needs of the
  learners and can respond to make the learning
  experience a richer one.
• Charles Jenning

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Why?

• The use of technology is secondary to
  well-designed learning goals and objectives
• Zane Berge

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What Do Online Teachers Do?

• online communication and e-moderating
• use of time online
• support and counselling
• creativity and flexibility to design
  and adapt
• value diversity and cross cultural
  learning
• resource guide monitor
• reflective personal style
• online assessment and evaluation

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SCARCITY!

• 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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Who?

• IT trainers (online social and communication
  skills)
• Group trainers (personalities online?)
• Lecturers as the expert (power reduction)
• Online moderators (manage the learnersexpectation
  s)

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Online Teaching Qualities

• Role of the E-moderator
• Interpersonal
• Technical Skills
• Communication Style
• Techniques
• Content Expertise

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Training for Online Teaching

• Essential for success of online learning
• Accommodate wide range of level of prior skills
• Skills Attitudes Confidence
• Active member of online community

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OUBS Online Moderator Training
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Summary

• good technological application for learning are
  essential- but not the whole story
• new understandings of online teaching, the
  competencies and roles and how to prepare
• work at preparing teachers, trainers and
  moderators for their roles
• its time to stop pioneering and scale up online
  teaching

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CONTACT

• G.K.Salmon_at_open.ac.uk
• OUBS Web site http//oubs.open.ac.uk
• Papers from Gilly Salmon about online teaching
  http//oubs.open.ac.uk/gilly