Internet Learning Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2015

Internet Learning Journal Volume 4, Number 1 — Spring 2015 © 2015 Policy Studies Organization � Table of Contents Letter from the Editor____________________________________________________1 Melissa Layne Editors and Editorial Board_______________________________________________4 Strategies for Virtual Learning Environments: Focusing on Teaching Presence and Teaching Immediacy_____________________________________________________8 Misha Chakraborty and Fredrick Muyia Nafukho, Texas A&M University Students’ Perceptions of Online Course Quality: How Do They Measure Up to the Research? _______________________________________________________________38 Penny Ralston-Berg, Penn State World Campus, Janet Buckenmeyer, Coastal Carolina University, Casimir Barczyk, Purdue University Calumet, and Emily Hixon, Purdue University Calumet Faculty Training and Student Perceptions: Does Quality Matter?_________________56 Jun Sun and Ramiro de la Rosa, University of Texas – Pan American Digital Information Networks and the Future of Online Learning________________70 João C. R. Caetano, Department of Social Sciences and Management, Aberta University, Lisbon, Portugal and Nicolás F. Lori, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal 3 Questions for an Online Learning Leader__________________________________86 Featuring Wally Boston, American Public University System Assessing the Degree of Homogenenous Online Teaching Textbook Infancy from 1999 to 2007 Using the Immediacy Principle_____________________________________88 Erik Bean, University of Phoenix and American Public University System The Shifting Paradigm: Learning to Unlearn________________________________126 Carmen Elena Cirnu, National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics, ICI Bucharest, Romania

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