**7. Online instructional skills**

Tham and Werner (2005) highlight studies that indicate that instructors in an online environment must fulfil many roles or "hats". These hats include:


Senior management in institutions must harness the power of technology to deliver the curriculum to lifelong learners while recognising that the set of instructional skills required are quite different, the cohort of students are different and the role of the institution, instructor and student must adopt to this changing dynamic.
