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Salmon's Research on Training Online Instructors
Brent Muirhead D.Min., Ph.D.

Introduction
Contemporary distance education schools are striving to have the most effective educational programs that encourage a dynamic combination of being flexible, individualized, personally and professionally challenging. The rapid growth of distance education schools has created an increasing demand for training today’s online instructors. Unfortunately, many online teachers often begin working with limited experience and training in distance education. Gilly Salmon (2000) offers excellent descriptive information on the essential competencies that are needed by today’s online instructors in her book E-moderating: The key to teaching online. The focus of this discussion is to highlight a portion of Salmon’s research that offers superb insights into the online teaching and learning process....

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