Professor Gilly Salmon
Gilly Salmon, Ph.D. is
Professor of E-learning and Learning Technologies, BDRA, University of
Leicester.
Gilly joined the University of Leicester in the UK in 2004 as Professor
of
E-learning & Learning Technologies, after 15 years with the Open
University Business School. The University of Leicester is heading
towards creating a full mixed mode research-led university with
half
its 18,000 students on campus and half at a distance. She is also
Visiting Professor at Caledonian Business School.
She
has two research
degrees one in online training and one in change in education.
She
is
known for her research and practice in the arenas of development and
change for creating engaged and successful e-learning processes. Her
focus is on designing for participation and intervening for learning
using the best of networked technologies.
Gilly is known for her many articles and commentary about the
future for learning technologies and as an international speaker.
At Leicester she heads the “Beyond Distance Research Alliance”. The
Alliance, based at the University of Leicester, draws together teachers
and researchers from a wide variety of areas to research in joint
projects and provide for publications and dissemination.
The Alliance focus is to promote a systematic application of the core
body of
knowledge and principles that have built up around e-learning and
integrate new paradigms and processes as they are understood:
- Rigorous research methodologies, appropriate for exploiting e for research
- Strategy and policy development
- The role, training, development, and competencies of online teachers (e-moderators and m-moderators)
- Scenarios for the future of teaching and learning with new technologies
- Models of change associated with introduction of new pedagogies and technologies
- Sustainability and multipliers (‘Cascade”)- beyond projects
Gilly coauthored Learning in Groups: A Handbook for Face-to-Face and Online Environments, Fourth Edition, How to Create Podcasts for Education, and Podcasting for Learning in Universities. She is also director of a commercial global online training company All Things in Moderation Ltd.
Watch The Media Zoo – Gilly Salmon – University of Leicester, University of Leicester – Designing E-Learning, Second Life Media Zoo, eden2009 Gilly Salmon, and Gilly Salmon e-tivities. Review. Read Interview with Professor Gilly Salmon. Read her LinkedIn profile.