title: Defining interaction and strategies to enhance interactions in Web-based courses.
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.
mesh_terms: D001292:Attitude to Computers; D003200:Computer User Training; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000592:standards*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D020380:Needs Assessment; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D010379:Peer Group; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D014584:User-Computer Interface