reflection 2: interaction

I appreciated Anderson's effort in theorizing "interaction" in education, oarticularly in distance education in this article. As he rightly points out, the idea of interaction has long been a debate among educators. What counts as active interaction and participation in regular as well as distance educaiton classroom can be very different. H draws on the interaciton theories such as Wegner's "community of practice" as one of the framework to conceptualize interaction in education. He also details modes and equivalency of interaction and categorizes three types of interaction: student, teacher, and content interaction, and further provides examples of applying the equivalency theorem to popular education delivery modes.