Patent ID: 6775518
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
An interactive educational system for providing educational materials to multiple, simultaneous users, the system comprising:a central operations including a processor, a storage, and an input/output including a console for providing interaction between the system and an administrator, wherein the interaction including capture of content to be stored in the storage, a network I/O, a modem, telephony I/O, an audio/video I/O; a plurality of terminals for multiple users to receive the educational materials wherein at least one of said terminals include: a telephonic user interface for upstream control; and a video channel for downstream presentation of said educational materials; and a plurality of bi-directional communications channels whereby the central operations communicates with each of the plurality of terminals through the plurality of communications channels, wherein the multiple users interact with the terminals to communicate with the central operations, wherein the central operations provides the multiple, simultaneous users random access to the educational materials, and wherein at least one of the bi-directional communications channels includes a telephony channel in an upstream direction and a video channel in a downstream direction.