Patent ID: 8021164

Claim:
A method of teaching comprising the processor implemented steps of: providing academic educational presentations created by educators for the benefit of school students; for qualified users, providing access via the Internet to the educational presentations stored in digital media, each said presentation teaching the same topic and being made by a different presenter; collecting financial compensation from a plurality of qualified users; aiding qualified users in the selection of a particular educational presentation from the plurality of educational presentations; for at least one presenter, determining an amount of financial compensation to be paid to such presenter; obtaining a first indicia of popularity for each educational presentation by tracking the number of times each educational presentation has been replayed; obtaining a second indicia of popularity for each presenter by tracking the number of times each presenter has been replayed; the processor inferring one or more combined figures of merit, each combined figure of merit being a function of both the first and second indicia of popularity; and, making the combined figure of merit available to qualified users for use in selecting a particular presentation.