发明名称 System and method for hybrid course instruction
摘要 Systems and methods related to providing an electronic presentation to both in-class attendees and remotely located out-of-class attendees, in which video and audio associated with the presentation is provided to the remote attendees, and out-of-class programmable systems are programmed to execute an educational exercise associated with the presentation and be remotely operated by the remote attendees.
申请公布号 US9064232(B2) 申请公布日期 2015.06.23
申请号 US201012755838 申请日期 2010.04.07
申请人 Learning Tree International, Inc. 发明人 Laine Kendall;O'Neal Dave;Haden Beth;Nylund Magnus
分类号 G09B3/00;G06Q10/10;G09B5/06;G09B7/02;G09B5/00;G09B7/00;G09B19/00;G06Q50/20 主分类号 G09B3/00
代理机构 Miles & Stockbridge P.C. 代理人 Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
主权项 1. A system providing an electronic presentation, the system comprising: a console interface of a console programmable computer configured to provide a presentation control interface for directing visual content to a presentation display for viewing by a plurality of in-class participants; a camera configured to capture video data of a presenter; a microphone configured to capture audio data of the presenter; one or more programmable computers configured to receive image data from the camera, audio data from the microphone, and the visual content displayed on the presentation display, encode the image data, audio data, and visual content as outgoing data, and transmit the outgoing data to a plurality of remote attendee systems via a network, wherein the one or more programmable computers are further configured to receive incoming data from the plurality of remote attendee systems via the network, and in response to the incoming data, output audio via a speaker, and interact with the console programmable computer; a plurality of in-class programmable systems located in a classroom, each comprising a display, input device, processor, and computer-readable memory, the computer-readable memory having instructions stored thereon to provide an educational exercise, the providing comprising: executing learning software,sending an educational exercise in the learning software to one or more of the plurality of in-class participants, andreceiving a response for the educational exercise; a plurality of out-of-class programmable systems, located in the same classroom as the plurality of in-class programmable systems, each comprising a display, input device, processor, and computer-readable memory, the computer-readable memory having instructions stored thereon to provide the educational exercise as used in the in-class programmable systems, the providing comprising: executing the learning software,sending the educational exercise in the learning software to one or more of the plurality of remote attendee systems via a respective one or more of the plurality of out-of-class programmable systems via the network,receiving a response for the educational exercise from the respective one or more of the plurality of out-of-class programmable systems for the educational exercise, wherein the plurality of out-of-class programmable systems are operated by a respective one of the plurality of remote attendee systems via the network; a demonstration computer configured to execute demonstrations by the presenter and a connection server configured to exchange data with the plurality of remote attendee systems over the network, wherein: the demonstration computer is configured to compress high bandwidth video data into low bandwidth video data for transmission over the network through the connection server, the demonstrations by the presenter are displayed on the presentation display for viewing by the in-class participants and are transmitted to the connection server to display the demonstrations on a remote participant interface of each remote attendee system over the network, and each remote attendee system is configured to receive and display the demonstrations on a demonstration window of the remote participant interface of each remote attendee system.
地址 Reston VA US