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Interaction Among Students
Online education offers students the ability to connect with other students through a variety of synchronous and asynchronous tools, although not all theories of learning necessitate interaction between students. In online learning environments designed with a social constructivist framework, though, interaction between students is a crucial component of the learning experience.
Similar Terms and Phrases
Terms used to refer to interaction between students include peer participation, peer interaction,peer responses, and collaborative learning. Two terms are related to, but distinct from, interaction: interactivity and intersubjectivity.
The term interactivity is a combination of interaction and activity and often refers to some level of engagement with a communication or computing system. Consider, for example, the phrase interactive multimedia. Although some researchers would disagree, interactivity is most often associated with the field ...
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