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Presence, a sense of “being there,” is critical to the success of designing, teaching, and learning at a distance using both synchronous and asynchronous (blended) technologies. Emotions, behavior, and cognition are components of the way presence is perceived and experienced and are essential for explaining the ways we consciously and unconsciously perceive and experience distance education. A more complete understanding of the integration of the cognitive, behavioral, and emotional components of presence into distance education teaching and learning will impact the design, instructional facilitation, and experience of distance education faculty and learners. This paper focuses on a literature review of the research in the areas of: emotion as indispensable to the perception of reality, and presence and the role of emotion in creating presence. It builds on models from this research and presents: (a) a framework for creating presence in the blended distance education experience, (b) implications for practice, (c) implications for future research, and (d) a suggested combination of methods for measuring presence in distance education experiences.

Hello, I am James Torio, I live in New York. I wrote the paper for my master's thesis in advertising design for Syracuse University. I have a passion for design, innovation, creativity, strategy, branding, trend-spotting, problem-solving, all things viral and how they relate to building more dynamic relationships between brands and target audiences. The thesis is saved as a PDF, please feel free to download it and share it. Thanks again to everyone who participated in the survey and every along the way who freely gave advice. To give a brief over view of the paper, it was written for people who have a basic understanding of Blogs. I looked at how Blogs have impacted business and communication, how some Blogs create revenue, how some companies are using Blogs, how Blogs greatly boost the spread of information, how Blogs add richness to the media landscape, how Blogs work in the Long Tail, how some companies are tracking the Blogosphere and what the future of Blogging may be.

Administrators, learning designers, and teachers are facing a new kind of learner - someone who has control over the learning tools and processes. When educators fail to provide for the needs of learners (i.e. design learning in an LMS only), learners are able to "go underground" to have their learning needs met.