Patent ID: 6074216
Filing Date: 2000-06-13
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
Method of providing educational instruction and providing a capability of extending the instruction to at least one remote site, the method comprising:a. broadcasting instructional material, and providing said broadcast to a plurality of students;b. providing an interactivity engine for receiving input data and generating, as an output, reply data related to the input data, said reply data including student query information;c. providing a computer network connection between the interactivity engine and said plurality of students;d. using the interactivity engine to display said input data in a ranked order;e. providing said display to an instructor in a manner which permits integration of responses to said input data with said broadcast, whereinthe output of the interactivity engine includes data weighted according to preselected criteria, the preselected criteria including ambiguity of the resolved search requests.