Panelist
XXX PANELIST Education Influencers: The New Role for Online Teachers
Gilly Salmon argues that the online humans are the new ‘Influencers’. She reports on the updated research on how to recruit train and develop for this key role.
From the last Century onwards as ‘e-learning’ and then ‘online learning’ became a real ‘thing’, new skills and competencies were required in the mix. Fortunately thinking has moved away from considering that technology might do away with the humans. Most people consider that the human e-moderators- teachers- tutors, are the pivot around which the learners’ experience revolved. So where are we now? Gilly Salmon argues that the online humans are the new ‘Influencers’. She reports on the updated research on how to recruit train and develop for this key role.
Overview
- Understand the concept of design once, and deliver many times, for online and blended learning.
- Receive a key matrix of competencies and roles to focus on enabling teaching staff for successful delivery.
- Consider how to scale up and contextualise for the post covid learning era.
Gilly Salmon
CEO, Education Alchemists. Ltd, United Kingdom
Professor Salmon is the founder and CEO of Education Alchemists Ltd - formed around her life's work including Carpe Diem learning design, pedagogical transformation, online education, technology-enhanced teaching, the 5 stage model, e-tivities, and Education 4.0. Until recently Professor of Learning Transformation and pro-vice-chancellor at universities in the UK and Australia, she is now based in London with all workshops offered fully digitally and worldwide. She is a well-known keynote speaker and workshop leader. Her books E-moderating and E-tivities are considered seminal texts