The development of a course to prepare e-moderators to run an international on-line teacher training course

In this paper we describe the development of a course designed to prepare on-line teacher trainers (e-moderators) to deliver an on-line teacher training course. The e-moderators were to deliver the courses to teachers world-wide using a simple ´home-grown´ virtual learning environment consisting of ordinary e-mail and e-mail-based discussion lists, coupled with a dedicated web-based environment for document sharing. We describe the training issues we identified, the training provided, and how the lessons learnt have informed subsequent phases and design of the moderator-training.