Interaction (1:13)

Moore: Well moving on to the second question, which is this question of interaction that people talk about a great deal.  Of course, yes, it is extremely important.  In fact, I’ve said from time to time that it is a refining characteristic of education that there is an interaction between a person who doesn’t know as much as somebody else who knows more than the other person.  That’s the relationship between the teacher and the learner.  There has to be interaction.  Some years ago, I was asked to speak on a panel about what is interaction, and I sat down and thought it, and I thought well, really, it is simple.  There are different kinds of interaction.  And what I said is really so simple it’s been quoted from time to time over the years.  I said there’s three kinds of interaction.  There’s interaction with the student or the learner with the content.  There’s interaction between the learner and the instructor.  And, there’s interaction between learners.  So, learner-content interaction, learner-instructor interaction, and learner-learner interaction.