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Sandra Luxton is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University in Australia and is Project Manager for their Master of Marketing (Practice). This course is taught via multimedia, including CD Rom, print and internet. Sandra is responsible for the training and management of e-moderators who teach in this program from around the world.

Sandra’s academic background includes teaching and subject co-ordination in Marketing Communication and Marketing Theory. Her research, consulting and publishing covers marketing communication, marketing theory and practice and distance and multimedia education. Sandra holds an Associate Diploma of Marketing, Bachelor of Business, Master of Business (Res.) and is currently completing a PhD, which focuses on the measurement of the impact of Integrated Marketing Communication on business performance within organisations.

Naomi Lawless comes from a broad background in both management and learning. She worked in industry as an engineer, business manager and management consultant. Currently she works as an academic at the Open university Business School. She takes a pragmatic view of online learning, particularly with her PhD research into success factors in collaborative learning in virtual teams, where her emphaisis on identifying results that are useful in practice.

E-mail : N.Lawless@open.ac

(B.Sc. (Hons) (Open), F.Inst.L.M., DipSysPrac(Open)) works as the Managing Director for Abacus Learning Systems ( www.abacus-uk.com).

Gerry concentrates on the open and flexible learning aspects of education and training, especially using Computer Mediated Communication and Blended Cooperative Learning (using FirstClass). He has been a visiting tutor on the Online Education and Training course at the Institute of Education, London University, the Open University's 'Teaching & Learning On-Line' course and the Online Trainers course run by the Northern Illinois University, USA, He has been an Advisor to the Business Institute, University of Ulster, and consultant to the British Inland Revenue service on CMC. With John M. Campbell & Co, Oklahoma he is training trainers in Online Training techniques and helping them to deliver online courses in the Oil and Gas Industry worldwide.

E-mails: gp@abacus-uk.com or learning@abacus-uk.com

Prof Claudine SchWeber contributed an example of e-moderating in situations of diversity which is included in the 2nd edition of E-moderating. Claudine has written regularly about the impact of technology one-learning, on the costs in higher education, and on the forthcoming issues in education with technology. Most recently, her administrative unit -the Office of Distance Education & Lifelong Learning (ODELL) has established a new programme for Accessibility in Distance Education (CADE)- that examines the challenges and strategies for supporting persons with disabilities in the online environment. She has recently pioneered the development and teaching of online course in conflict management for a global student population (including US members of the military worldwide!) using technology to enhance the learning environment.

http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cade

Haydn is Principal Lecturer in Marketing and Operations Management at the University of Glamorgan. He has worked at the Univeristy to develop the e-learning profile of the institution using both the University MLE and working with one of our partner organisations, MDC, in supporting on-line learners throughout the world. This has led to a continuing focus on the way that on-line groups learn and how crucial the role of a e-moderator is to achieving successful group interaction.

Lesley Shield is a Lecturer in Language Learning & Technology at the Open University, UK. Her areas of expertise include: online discourse and language learning, educational uses of virtual worlds and educational website usability. She has researched and written widely on the area of online language learning and has produced staff development materials for those who are either new to or wish to develop further their knowledge of working in e-learning. She is an elected member of the EuroCALL Executive Committee, responsible for the Revue section of ALSIC’s Toilthèque and a member of the Specialist Advisory Group for the UK’s Learning & Teaching Support Network, Languages, Linguistics & Area Studies.

Marie-Noëlle Lamy contributed a case study in Chapter 4 of the book. She is a Senior Lecturer in French at the Centre for Modern languages of the Open University with a background in linguistics, wide-ranging experience as an author of bilingual dictionaries, and ten years' experience of teaching languages at a distance. For some years she has taught and researched the online strategies of students and instructors, through a series of projects involving working on French vocabulary via a mix of standalone software and conferencing.

Prof David Hawkridge's experience as an author, editor and e-moderator was invaluable during the writing of E-moderating and he contributed a case study for chapter 5. David is now Emeritus Professor of Applied Educational Sciences at the OU, is an international expert in educational technology and distance learning. He was the founding director of the OU’s Institute of Educational Technology in 1970, a position he held until 1988.

David has contributed to major innovative projects and to prestigious institutions in many countries. He has worked in numerous Open University course teams and for the Institute launched in 1997 the Postgraduate Programme in Open and Distance Education. He has carried out an extensive research programme on uses of computers in education and training. He has written a number of books and about 180 papers and presentations.