From the sudden broadening and increase of the technology uses and the consequent penetration of the information technology in virtually all fields of the human existence resulted among the deep changes still ongoing the introduction of a neologism that, by synthesizing the expectations and hopes placed on the digital revolution, has become a central concept also in the online education. Thus, the interactivity - a term that, in western languages, during a long time dictionaries resisted to acknowledge - imposes itself as the expression of a communicative ideal that no one would dare to question. It is possible, however, that this subservient welcome has a price, due to the crystallization of a nomenclature that no conceptual work is able to penetrate. Therefore, the objective of this text is not so much to propose new meanings for the concept of interactivity, but to expose, by looking into the conceptual field in which it inscribe itself, its theoretical insufficiencies, as well as other perspectives to be explored.
Interaction; Interactivity; Distance education; E-learning; Praxis; Human formation