by Mark J. Drozdowski

IF YOU'RE LIKE me and most other people who’ve passed through college and perhaps graduate school, then you’re probably not terribly familiar with on-line education. As so-called traditional students, we learned in a classroom with the professor and fellow students right in front of us. The idea, then, of taking classes and earning degrees via the Internet might seem strangely foreign. It certainly does to me. So when evaluating books and articles extolling the virtues of on-line learning, I approach the task with equal parts fascination and skepticism.

E-Moderating and E-tivites are two such books. These neologistic works—published in 2000 and 2002, respectively—are the products of Gilly Salmon, an instructor at the Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise at Britain’s Open University Business School. Research for these books comes from her experience with distance learning students enrolled in the MBA program. Both books present “how-to” solutions and discuss, to some extent, the philosophical underpinnings of learning via an on-line environment.

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