Patent ID: 6302698
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
In a networked teaching and learning system having a plurality of student computers, each having an input device and a screen and having at least one teacher's computer including an input device and a screen, the system further comprising:output elements controlled by the student computers for transmitting learning reinforcement signals to the students;a packet-switched, interrupt-driven, communication protocol for communicating between the teacher's computer and the student computers through the network;wherein the teacher's computer includes program instructions responsive to teacher inputs to transmit a question to each of the student computers;wherein the student computers immediately transmit each student keystroke without waiting for the next keystroke;the system further comprising comparison and evaluation logic in communication with the student computers for receiving student keystrokes of a multi-character student response and for comparing and evaluating each of said student keystrokes with a homologous character of at least one multi-character teacher-designated answer to the question, immediately after each student keystroke; andwherein the student computers are immediately responsive to evaluation of each student keystroke by the comparison and evaluation logic to signal the student through at least one of the output elements with at least one learning reinforcement signal.