Three key themes have emerged since I wrote for the 1st edition of ‘E-mod’ around the turn of the Millennium. First there’s less reason to convince the world that we need support for online teachers, trainers and facilitators, (i.e. from a happy and successful band of e-moderators) to make e-learning work well. Thinking has moved on a little from believing technology may do away with teachers and towards how they can be trained and supported to work online. Second, researchers have stopped counting online messages, making spurious comparisons between online and face to face and started instead to explore when and what we need to make online really worthwhile. I have included some of their published literature for this edition. Third, and as yet largely unresolved, are ways of scaling up the e-moderating task force beyond the early adopters, without consuming huge amounts of diminishing resources. I hope you will find this edition helpful for these new directions. Good luck and report back please! The challenge will last a while. I hope E-mod 2, will help make the online world a more social, supportive and dynamic place.

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I know there is an irony in writing a book about something that can only be tried online. However, some people like books to read on trains and planes, and others feel comforted by print based resources lying by their keyboards. The E-tivities book will help:

• Academics, teachers, course managers, teaching assistants, instructors, trainers or one of the increasing band of e-moderators from many disciplines, from any level of education, within any teaching tradition and in any country. You will be online or wish to ‘move online’
• Developers and trainers in corporate training and professional associations
• Staff developers and teacher trainers

I hope there will also be some browsers, lurkers or vicarious learners from the book. You may be:

• Software and platform designers and providers
• Computer services and support staff
• Directors, managers and administrators responsible for the provision, evaluation and assessment of online learning in any educational context
• Staff working online in contexts other than teaching and learning, e.g. community programmes, e-democracy

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