Internet Learning Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2012

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Volume 1, Number 1 • Fall 2012
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Table of Contents
Editorial
The Professor as Craftsman in the Digital Age
Frank McCluskey

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Articles
An Inquiry into Relationships between Demographic Factors
and Teaching, Social, and Cognitive Presence
Angela M. Gibson, Phil Ice, Rob Mitchell, and Lori Kupczynski

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Assessing Virtual Students’ Quiz Performance in Web-Mediated
Synchronous Instruction
Ed Gibson

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Online Courses: Student Preferences Survey
Margaret Gillingham & Carol Molinari

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A Research Review about Online Learning: Are Students Satisfied?
Why do Some Succeed and Others Fail? What Contributes to
Higher Retention Rates and Positive Learning Outcomes?
George Lorenzo

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Ethical, Academic, and Practical Considerations for Online Teaching:
Does the Search for Quality and Integrity Come at the Expense
of Academic Freedom?
Manfred F. Meine, Thomas P. Dunn, and Robert Abbey

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Asynchronous Online Education Credit Hours by the Book
Frederick Carl Prasuhn

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