Elizabeth T Whitaker

US Patent:

6905341, Jun 14, 2005

Filed:

Oct 31, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/702318

Inventors:

Elizabeth T. Whitaker - Atlanta GA, US

Assignee:

NCR Corporation - Dayton OH

International Classification:

G09B007/00

US Classification:

434323, 434322

Abstract:

A computer-assisted educational system. Educational courses are provided, comprising individual lessons. The lessons are stored at one, or more, servers, and are transmitted to remote computers over a network, such as an internet. Students utilize the remote computers to participate in the lessons. At any given time, the remote computer displays the lessons available to a student, so that, for a given course, the student is not held in lock-step with the other students, but may study the lesson's of the student's own choice. This freedom is subject to any requirements of certain lessons which require prerequisite lessons be completed. The prerequisites must be completed first.