Remote education and apparatus via an internet

• US 6,190,178 B1
• Filed: 10/23/1997
• Issued: 02/20/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tumbleweed Holdings LLC (Equitable IP Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Oh, Min Seok
• Primary Examiner(s): Martin-Wallace, Valencia
• Assistant Examiner(s): Harris, Chanda
• Application Number:
  US08/956,462
• Time in Patent Office: 1,216 Days
• Field of Search: 434/118, 434/350, 434/362, 434/335, 434/322, 434/323
• US Class Current: 434/323
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/065 Combinations of audio and video presentations, e.g. videotapes, videodiscs, television systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/14 with provision for individual teacher-student communication
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

A remote education method and apparatus via an internet which has been widely used as an information network is provided. The remote education method and apparatus via the internet has an open structure which is not influenced by particular hardware or software, such as an operating system or a web browser. A remote education provider can construct a remote education server with a low cost in a minimum amount of time. Also users can easily connect to the remote education server via the internet to receive a remote education service. The remote education server provides an educational program including individual learning progress based on a learning evaluation and a performance management function and performs a discriminative education based on the ability of each individual.

Claims

1. A remote education method using an internet, comprising the steps of:

(a) transmitting a remote education home page comprising learning procedures for guiding a user to select one of a set of desired learning procedures;

(b) providing learning data corresponding to the learning procedure selected by the user;

(c) providing evaluation data corresponding to the provided learning data to evaluate learning results of the user;

(d) analyzing an evaluation result, with respect to the evaluation data, and providing a learning direction to the user.

2. The remote education method according to claim 1, wherein said step (b) comprises the step of searching the learning data corresponding to the learning procedure selected in the remote education home page among a database which prestores various learning data and providing the search result to the user.

3. The remote education method according to claim 1, wherein said step (c) comprises the step of searching the evaluation data corresponding to the learning data analysis result from a database and providing the search result to the user.

4. The remote education method according to claim 1, wherein said step (d) comprises the step of individually storing the remote education result information, such as the evaluation results and the learning direction based on the evaluation result, considering the user personal information input in the remote education home page.

5. The remote education method according to claim 4, wherein said remote education result information is individually stored and used for measuring progress and managing a next learning procedure.

6. The remote education method according to claim 1, wherein said step (a) comprises the step of receiving a user name and a password from a user and identifying whether the user name and password are listed in a registered user list, and further transmitting registering page to the user when the user name is not listed in the registered user list.

7. A remote education apparatus via an internet, the remote education apparatus comprising:

a controller;

a network connector which can be connected to the internet;

a database for prestoring the various learning data and the evaluation data prestored in the database, for creating a learning page to execute the remote education, an evaluation page to evaluate the learning results and a resultant page with respect to the evaluation, and for performing a remote education program; and

a database management unit for storing in the database and managing the individual remote education result information, based on the learning results executed in the remote education execution unit, such as evaluation results and a learning direction, based on the evaluation result.