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Internet Learning Journal – Volume 4, Issue 1 – Spring 2015
again collaboration, a term not readily associated with the scholarly definition of
immediacy.
This study provided an operationalized definition of online immediacy based on the
immediacy vocabulary scale and the content analysis methodology. Other researchers may
want to incorporate this scale and methodology or refine it based on the mediums sampled.
Other scholarly concepts that researchers may want to track in the practice of online
education may include andragogy itself.
Another aspect of standardization of terminology, the standardization of the
principles and methods of terminology is the task of an international organization such as
ISO, who makes unified guidelines and principles for work in terminology so as to achieve a
coherent approach and to improve communication (as cited in He, 2004, p. 88).
Consequently, higher education leadership as well as educational publishing
leadership may want to join forces with the International Organization of Standardization
(ISO) to study ways to improve consistency in higher education terminology usage and
categorization. Other organizations including the Library of Congress that categorizes books
also may need to enter into a dialog with ISO, authors, and publishers.
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