Mason, Richard O. ISDN and the Great Conversation. Participants need not meet in the same place at the same time. Rather, they may be remote and dispersed, and they can exchange information asynchronously, for instance, without the need to come to a campus. A model seminar is presented in which 20 people sign up for a seminar on architecture and agree to meet electronically once a week to exchange ideas on famous architects and their works. Such a conversation is highly interactive.
Participants can also interact reflectively.