E-tivities, 2nd Edition

Foreword

I am delighted that Gilly Salmon has decided to update this important book, which, along with its highly successful companion E-moderating, has done so much to improve the practice of e-learning and render it enjoyable for both learners and teachers. With forecasts suggesting that 80 per cent of US students will be taking courses online in 2014, along with the rest of the world going down the same track, this new edition is very timely.

Online learning was in its infancy in most institutions when the first edition was published in 2002. The most common model for producing e-learning courses was that individual academics created online versions of their regular classroom offerings—with as much or as little help as their institution ...