Defining Interaction and Strategies to Enhance Interactions in Web-Based Courses
- 1 September 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Nurse Educator
- Vol. 28 (5) , 237-241
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006223-200309000-00013
Abstract
Designing interaction components in Web-based courses is important to ensure an effective learning environment. The author provides a definition of interaction and describes four types of interactions: learner-content, learner-learner, learner-instructor, and learner-interface. Finally, strategies to enhance the four types of interaction when developing and delivering Web-based course are discussed.Keywords
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