Connecting Online (CO10): Janet Salmons, Ph.D

About the Class

Welcome to CO10 the annual live online conference. The conference will be of interest to educators, administrators, students, and community members who value the importance of integrating technology into the curriculum to improve instruction and learning. Online learning involves various skills on the part of the instructor and learner. These include social and communication skills, social networking, independent learning strategies, critical and higher order thinking skills, creativity, and effective online and face-to-face facilitation.

The Conference will be conducted on IT4ALL Moodle course: http://www.integrating-technology.com/course/view.php?id=89 (enrollment key is CO10 ) and WiZiQ.

Janet Salmons is on the graduate faculty of the Capella University School of Business and Technology, where she develops and teaches online courses in leadership and team leadership for the Masters and Ph.D. programs, serves as dissertation mentor for doctoral learners and as Colloquium and Dissertation Writers' Retreat faculty. Her consulting practice, Vision2Lead, Inc. (www.vision2lead.com), works with educational institutions and nonprofit organizations on e-learning and e-research projects.

Dr. Salmons is a frequent conference and webinar presenter. Current publications include Online Interviews in Real Time (2010), editing the Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy with Lynn Wilson (2009), contributions to the Lexicon of Online and Distance Education (2009), Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration (2008), and Student Plagiarism in an Online World Problems and Solutions (2007). She is author of the forthcoming Cases in Online Interview Research.

Janet completed her doctoral studies at the Union Institute and University with research in online collaboration in leadership education. She earned an MA in Social Policy Studies from Empire State College, a distance-learning institution in the State University of New York, and a BS in Adult Education from Cornell University's College of Human Ecology.

Title of the Presentation
Online Interviews in Real Time: Synchronous Interviews with Rich Media Technologies

Description of the Presentation
In this presentation I will discuss some of the ideas and models offered in my new book, Online Interviews in Real Time. I will discuss some of the reasons researchers conduct synchronous interviews, and ways researchers can align purpose and methodology with online data collection methods.

Keywords: co10, janet salmons, connecting online

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