JPSY_V1_N2_RP3 Miika Lehtonen Gisli Thorsteinsson Tom Page Journal on Educational Psychology 2230 – 7141 1 2 28 42 emotions, feelings, online education This paper examines the significance of emotion for the processes of teaching, studying and learning. The goal is to demonstrate on the basis of both theoretical examination and empirical data. Emotional processes are crucial for human learning and should be taken into account in online teaching and learning as well. Emotional factors during studying influence in several ways as, whether one studies, how one studies, whether one learns and whether one remembers what one studies, etc. The study also examines online group dynamics in online teaching and studying from the point of view of shared emotional states and online conveyance of emotions. Emotional situations related to studying are also examined from the cognitive and emotional point of view and via the concepts of situational anxiety and situational pleasure. The examples in the empirical data were collected during 2005-2006 from online courses of the Cornet project. The data was analyzed by classifying the data referring to emotionality with nVivo program under special themes as described in this paper. The data contain student essays "I as a learner during the Education, organizations and culture" study unit (N=12) and students' study-related email messages during the "Learning organization and small group dynamics" study unit (N=28). August - October 2007 Copyright & copy; 2007 i-manager publications. All rights reserved. i-manager Publications http://www.imanagerpublications.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=463