The first decade of the 21st Century saw an enormous growth in the availability of learning technology platforms and also in a wide range of networked technologies that weren’t originally thought of as about knowledge - previously mere flags on the horizon…think podcasting, virtual worlds… Professor Salmon reports on their harnessing for learning in the 3rd Edition of E-moderating, just launched this month!

Along the way, she’s paused to offer no less than 87 keynote and plenary speeches all over the world. She’s built small multi professional teams with big influence and impact - at the UK Open University Business School; the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at Leicester in the UK and now at the Australian Digital Futures Institute in Southern Queensland. With large numbers of students and tutors involved- the crew and passengers number many thousands! And hundreds of educators have happily completed participation in her E-moderating courses based on the model in the book.

Most recently, Gilly’s attention has turned to the realization for the impact learning technology to be mainstreamed and embedded in every day practice in educational institutions, for innovation to be as normal as quality, for joy rather than ‘resistance’ to be the order of the day.

She now says:

 “I believe that everything we do today and tomorrow in our personal and professional lives to confront the future will have an impact. Individual and collective acts add up to collaborative action. My vision is to challenge the no longer appropriate patterns of the past and tune into the highest future possibilities for learning– and to operate from that place. Set your sails to the horizon!”