First off, I am an instructor for Bryan University Online where we have LIVE lecture. In our live lectures, we the instructors have microphones and cameras as do the students and therefore we do in fact have real interaction. Essentially, our class sessions are held in a Skype-like environment, but with a fully interactive learning environment that includes a white board, application sharing abilities, web-touring abilities, presentation uploading abilities, and much more. So you could probably imagine my amusement with the portion of the presentation for this course that discussed the idea that face to face interaction does not take place in an e-learning environment :-)