Janet Salmons

Dr. Salmons is an e-learning scholar-practitioner. She is on the graduate faculty of the Capella University School of Business and Technology, where she develops online courses and teaches leadership and team leadership for the MBA and Ph.D. programs. Her consulting practice, Vision2Lead, Inc. (www.vision2lead.com), works with educational institutions, business and nonprofit organizations on e-learning curriculum and faculty development.

Janet co-edited the Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy, published by IGI Global. This handbook explores structure, organization, technology tools and leadership practices that characterize successful collaboration in and across the fields of education, public policy, and business. Forthcoming is a book on electronic methods in scholarly research, Online Interviews in Real Time. Janet contributed a chapter titled "Expect Originality! Using Using Taxonomies to Structure Assignments that Support Original Work" to the book, Student Plagiarism in an Online World" Problems and Solutions.

Janet completed her doctoral studies at the Union Institute and University with research in collaborative e-learning in leadership studies. 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.