At this topic I will try to compare Gills Salmon’s Five Stage Model of E-learning to my experience of ONL191. First a short presentation of the Five Stage Model of E-earning.
https://www.gillysalmon.com/five-stage-model.html

The Five Stage Model of E-learning in few words 

Access and motivation. Online facilitator needs to ensure all students can access and are supported in using the online interactive learning environment. Activities should be designed to welcome and encourage students. 

Online socialization. Online facilitator needs to provide activities that help students to establish their online identities and provide opportunities to interact with others. 

Information exchange. Online facilitator develops activities that provide students with opportunities to share module relevant information and a form of co-operation occurs, i.e. support for each person’s goals. 

Knowledge construction. Group discussions occur and the interaction between students becomes more collaborative. The Online Facilitator acts as a guide. The communication depends on the establishment of common understandings. 

Development. Participants look for more benefits from the online system to help them achieve personal goals, explore how to integrate learning into own context and work place and 

Comparing the Five Stage Model to the ONL191

Access and Motivation 
On each Topic we started with an introduction to the activities for all participants where we had an introducing video, material to read, a scenario and links to Tweet chat. The topics were presented by the ONL designers and led by our facilitators. At this stage of each topic the facilitators activities just to be higher than the participants activities.  

 Online Socialization  
The socialization takes part synchronous and asynchronous when we meet on our PBL group Activity page, FISH document, Minutes, Padlet and blogs, as well as synchronous on the Tweetchat, our Zoom-group meetings and on the webinar. Here it looks like the level of activities of both the facilitators and the participants is almost the same.  
 
Information exchange 
The information exchange beguines with the presentation of the topic by the ONL designers, followed by participants active searching on the topic case, reading and discussing the material on our group Zoom meetings, on the Padlet and on the webinar with the whole community. Here at some moments the activities of the ONL designers and invited guest appears to be higher than the participant specially on the webinars.  Both the participants and the facilitators seem to be equally active, but in other moments like on the chat or on the group discussion the participants seem to be more active.  

 Knowledge Construction 
After reading the recommended articles, watching the webinar, making some research, and share some links on the subject. The crucial moment for the construction of knowledge begins when we start discussing the material, when we start looking for answers and discussing how to work together and make our presentations for the BPN-work and writing in our blogs, as well as the comments on each other’s blogs, which always give extra insight on our learning. Here the level of activities of the participants is at its higher level compared whit the facilitators activities.  

 Development  
The development for us as learners happened when we create, explain and publish our work. With the wise comments of other participants and feedback of the facilitators and ONL leaders we get even more understandings on the subject. We then can reflect in our new acquired knowledge and complement it whit our own experiences. We are now ready to apply that knowledge in or teachings and learning activities and take the next step on our learning.  

In few words we can say that the process of constructing knowledge is the best way of learning.  

Summarizing 

It appears to me that the ONL 191 topics have been designed taking in consideration the Five Stage Model of E-learning. As we can see on the work of Gilly Salmon, the process is taking place as the steps get higher but shorter on each step. In each step the level of interactivity in general is represented, but the level of activity of participants and facilitators for each step is not represented.  

Adding the participants perspective to the Five Stage Model 

In my personal experience I don’t see this development as stages but rather as blocks of equal dimensions (see picture below). From my perspective as a participant I see that the level of activities by the participants and the facilitators changes gradually. At the beginning, on the first block, the facilitators seem to be more active than the participants. This change gradually until the last block where the participants are more active than the facilitators, because they are the ones who are engaged in the learning process, writhing on the fish-document, on the platform or apps we chose to communicate, discussing the topics with each other, creating the PBL-work and summarizing our thoughts in our blogs. In few words, at that level we were engaged with the Construction of knowledge.