Includes bibliographical references and index.

"How can faculty create a strong E presence for their online classes? This volume highlights the need for creating a presence in the online environment. The authors explore the emotional, psychological, and social aspects from both the instructor and student perspective. It provides an instructional design framework and shows how a strong presence contributes to effective teaching and learning. Filled with illustrative examples and based on research and experience, the book contains methods, case scenarios, and activities for creating, maintaining, and evaluating presence throughout the cycle of an online course."-- Provided by publisher. Contents: 1. The role of presence in the online environment. Why is it important to understand presence? -- Creating a sense of presence -- What we know about presence -- Presence as the result of our perceptual process -- Understanding presence -- 2. Ways in which presence can be experienced. Types of experience -- Modes of presence -- Dimensions of the learner -- The being there for the online learner model -- 3. Designing your online course with a sense of presence. Determinants of presence -- Framework for designing online courses with a sense of presence -- Getting yourself "there" for your online course -- Getting your learners "there" for your online course -- 4. Activities that create a sense of presence in your online course. Before the course begins -- During the online course -- End of the course -- How to know if presence is "there" in your online course -- 5. Are you here or there? Making sense of presence. Case 1: Getting to know you and your course -- Case 2: Second Life® participation and blogging -- Case 3: Creating a web-based training course as a team -- Creating a syllabus with a sense of presence -- Final thoughts and future directions -- Appendix 1: Training resources -- Appendix 2: Online course design resources -- Appendix 3: Sample syllabus -- Definitions of terms.