Patent ID: 6928260

Claim:
An online education system that guarantees that at least one student spends a specified amount of time on at least one lesson, the system comprising: an educator provider system for transmission of at least one lesson comprising an audio file wherein the at least one lesson comprises content and wherein the audio file is associated with the content of the at least one lesson; at least one student system capable of receiving the at least one lesson and presenting the at least one lesson to at least one student; network means for connecting the educator provider system with the at least one student system in bidirectional communication; such that when the at least one lesson is transmitted over the network means from the educator provider system to the at least one student system, the presentation of the at least one lesson is controlled by an audio controlling means based on the received audio file, so that the at least one student cannot advance in the at least one lesson until the audio file has completed playing.