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Interactive virtual classroom

  • US 20050003330A1
  • Filed: 07/02/2003
  • Published: 01/06/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2003
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A virtual classroom for allowing an instructor to instruct a plurality of students, each student located at a remote location from all the other students, each student receiving instructional material over a communications network, comprising:

  • a teaching workstation provided at a location remote from each of the students, said teaching workstation including a first monitor provided with an input device allowing for the projection and manipulation of images on said first monitor;

    a plurality of student workstations, each student workstation provided at a remote location from all the other student workstations and the teaching workstation, each student workstation provided with a student monitor for displaying images thereon and an input device for manipulating images displayed on said student monitor as well as for manipulating images projected upon said first monitor;

    a camera and microphone provided proximate to said teaching workstation for receiving video and audio material created at said teaching workstation and transmitting said video and audio material over the communications network to each of said student workstations, said video material projected upon each respective student monitor; and

    a server connected to said teaching workstation and said camera and said microphone as well as the communications network for controlling the operation of the virtual classroom including managing the flow of signals between said teaching workstation and each of said student workstations over the communications network.

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