JP2001051581A - Learning system by internet - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance a learning will of a learner and to make possible the learning matched with the learner's level in a learner's learnable time by using the Internet and exclusively and individually forming home pages for respective plural learners in a server of a head office. SOLUTION: This system is a learning system 10 by the Internet 12. The head office 13 forms the home page 14 of the head office 13 and fictional rooms (private rooms) for individual member registered learners 11 as the individual home pages 15 in the server owned by the self or a rental server, and issues an exclusive identification number (ID), a pass word to the individual learners 11, and the individual learner 11 learns a text of a cource provided in the individual home pages 15 as one's own fictional room (private room) by beforehand contacting to the head office 13 with an electronic mail 16.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to a learning system using the Internet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, an increasing number of students who go to a personal computer classroom or the like and attend a method of operating a personal computer, a method of using word processing software, a method of using spreadsheet software, and the like are increasing.

[0003]

However, in a conventional personal computer classroom or the like, a student must go to the place where the personal computer classroom is held according to the schedule planned by the organizer of the personal computer classroom. Therefore, if a student has an urgent need, there may be a case where the student cannot take the lesson desired to attend.

[0004] In a normal personal computer classroom or the like,
Many people with different degrees of understanding of personal computers at a time
In order to take the lessons of a teacher, the person who understands the contents of the course to a certain extent will be unsatisfactory in the contents of the class. Even if they do not understand whether they are doing, they may be embarrassed and unable to ask questions, and may proceed to the next course content. If this continues,
The willingness to learn gradually diminishes, leading to frustration along the way. You can also study at your own pace by relying on PC-related books that are widely available.However, in the case of such books, people who understand PCs often write For those who understand this, technical terms that are easy to understand may not be explained, and for those with a low level of personal computer understanding, the meaning of the sentence cannot be understood due to that. As a result, some people fail without proceeding.

[0005] An object of the present invention is to increase the learner's motivation to learn and to enable the learner to learn by creating a personalized home page dedicated to each of a plurality of learners in the server at the headquarters using the Internet. An object of the present invention is to enable learning according to the level of a learner at a certain time.

[0006]

The present invention according to claim 1 is a learning system using the Internet, in which a headquarters stores a homepage of the headquarters and an individual registered as a member in a server owned or rented by the headquarters. In addition to creating fictitious rooms for each of the learners as separate homepages, issuing unique identification numbers and passwords to each learner, each learner opens the headquarters homepage, By inputting your own identification number and password at a predetermined location in the headquarters homepage, it is linked to your own homepage as a fictitious room created in the headquarters server, and electronically communicated to the headquarters in advance. A course provided on your own website as a fictitious room by contacting you by email After studying the text, if a question about the learning content arises, contact the headquarters by e-mail, and if there is a question about the learning content from the learner by e-mail, the headquarters will reply to the question by e-mail. This is done by e-mail.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the headquarters further comprises the step of: A new teaching material is provided on a homepage dedicated to the learner as an imaginary room for the learner.

[0008]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the following operations are provided. Since it is a learning system that is conducted via the Internet homepage and e-mail, it is possible to learn the necessary learning contents at home at any time during the time when the learner can learn if he / she can access the Internet. In addition, since an imaginary room (private room) dedicated to each learner is displayed on the display as a personalized home page dedicated to each of the learners, it is possible to increase learners' motivation to learn.

[0009] For the learner, a fictitious room (private room) dedicated to the learner is prepared as a separate homepage in the server of the headquarters, and the course necessary and selected in advance is provided on this separate homepage. By opening the content, the text required for the course is displayed on the learner's computer display. Then, in the provided text, unclear points and the like held by the individual learners can be inquired to the headquarters by e-mail, and can be solved by a response from the headquarters by e-mail. For this reason, the learning motivation can be prevented from being lost due to the inability to solve the unknown part during the learning, and the learning content necessary for oneself selected can be advanced in accordance with one's understanding.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the following effects are obtained. The headquarters will provide new learning materials to the learner's homepage as an imaginary room for the learner if the learner has notified by email that the learning of the provided learning materials has been completed. When the amount of learning is enormous, the learner can proceed with the learning at his own pace steadily step by step, separating the learning of the learning content necessary for himself selected by himself.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the overall system of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the contents of a learner's room appearing on a display, and FIG. It is a flowchart which shows a series of flows.

As shown in FIG. 1, in a learning system 10 using the Internet, a personal computer of a learner 11 is connected to the Internet 12, and the learner 11 accesses a homepage 14 of a head office 13 via the Internet 12. According to the homepage 14 of the headquarters, a trial course or membership registration, and a link to the homepage 15 as a fictitious room (private room) after the membership registration can be made.

First, when the user clicks on the trial course on the homepage of the headquarters 13, the user is linked to a page explaining the outline of the learning system, the method of registering the member, the tuition fee, the period of the course, and the like. What kind of textbooks can be used in each course?
The explanation based on the case of a certain course is displayed.

[0014] After the end of the experience course, the learner 11 who wants to further study is clicked on the member registration field in the homepage 14 of the head office 13 to be linked to the member registration page and to sign up online. An application for membership registration is made. At the time of this member registration, you will be required to enter your name, address, name, phone number, e-mail address, etc. of the learner 11 from among the introductory, beginner, intermediate, and advanced courses on the homepage 14 of the headquarters 13. First selects 20 courses he wants to learn. At this time, the course selection is made after the completion of the membership registration.
May be provided based on an instruction from the headquarters 13 via e-mail, or may be provided unilaterally from the headquarters 13.

In addition, new courses can be added to the courses on the homepage 14 of the headquarters 13 by the headquarters 13. When the number of courses increases, the courses can be simply referred to as introductory, beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Instead of subdividing
Beginner, intermediate, advanced, and spreadsheet software courses may be subdivided into introductory, beginner, intermediate, and advanced courses on spreadsheet software, and some courses may be packaged. You may make it selectable.

When the application for membership registration is made, the headquarters 13 gives the learner 11 a special identification number (I
D), issue a password and mail it to complete membership registration. Thereafter, the learner 11 inputs his / her own unique identification number (ID) and password into a predetermined location on the homepage 14 of the headquarters 13 to thereby create his / her own fictitious fiction created in the server of the headquarters 13. It is possible to link to a homepage 15 (see FIG. 2) as a room (private room) from the homepage 14 of the headquarters 13.

After the completion of the membership registration, five of the twenty courses selected during the application for the membership registration or selected through the headquarters after the completion of the membership registration are:
The headquarters 13 assigns and sets the homepage 15 as an imaginary room (private room) for the learner 11 (see FIG. 2). The assignment of five of the 20 courses is determined by the headquarters 13 according to the degree of learning of the learner 11 and the like. Thus, when the learner 11 clicks an item (course number) that he or she wants to learn, a text, which is the content of the course, is displayed on the display of the learner's computer.

Thereafter, the learner 11 places the headquarters 13 on a homepage 15 as his or her imaginary room (private room).
The learning is started in accordance with the text of the course set from the above. However, if there is any unclear point in the text content, or a question about the text content, etc., the head office 13 is notified by e-mail 16 and the head office 13 Wait for a reply by e-mail 16 from. Also, when all the learning of the courses provided on the homepage 15 as one's own imaginary room (private room) is completed, the learner 11 informs the headquarters 13 by e-mail 16 of the completion of learning. In order to finish or continue the learning, the headquarters waits for the content of the course provided on the homepage 15 as the virtual room (private room) of the learner 11 to be updated.

The contents described above are described more specifically based on the procedure performed by the learner 11 as follows (see FIG. 3).

(1) Open the home page 14 of the head office 13 (FIG. 3A). (2) Execute the experience course in the homepage of the headquarters 13 (FIG. 3B).

(3) After the end of the experience course, if you wish to enter into this contract (FIG. 3 (c)),
At 4, the contract for membership registration is made. At this time, Headquarters 1
From the group of courses described on the homepage 14 of No. 3, select 20 courses that you want to study at the beginning, or select a field of undecided courses if you cannot decide which course to take yet (FIG. 3). (D)).

(4) The tuition is paid to the head office 13 by postal transfer, bank transfer, etc. (FIG. 3 (e)). The payment method is not limited to these, and an electronic payment method using a credit card may be used.

(5) At the headquarters 13, after confirming that the tuition of the above (4) has been paid by postal transfer or the like from the learner, the learner receives a special identification number (I
D), issue a password and send it to the student by mail (FIG. 3 (f)). At the same time, a home page 15 as a dedicated room (private room) for the learner 11
1 (FIG. 3 (g)), and the learner 11
Texts of five of the 20 courses selected by the learner 11 are assigned to the homepage 15 as a dedicated room (private room) and set (FIG. 3).
(H)). If the learner 11 selects a column for which a course has not been determined in (3) above, the headquarters 13 at this stage
The student is contacted by e-mail or the like, and after counseling with the learner 11, a course is determined.

(6) The learner 11 learns the text, which is the content of the course provided in his / her own room, and when an unclear point of the text content or a question about the text content occurs, the learner 11 sends the text to the headquarters via the e-mail 16. 13 and waits for a reply by e-mail 16 from the headquarters 13 (FIG. 3).
(I)). In this way, the learner 11 can ask the headquarters 13 without hesitation about any trivial points in the text of the content of his / her course without hesitation, and learn without leaving any unknown points while solving his own unknown points. Can proceed.

(7) When the learning of the texts in the provided five courses is completed (FIG. 3 (J)), the head office 13 is contacted by e-mail (FIG. 3 (k)), Wait for the replacement to take place (Fig. 3
(L)).

(8) Learning of all texts selected at the beginning is completed (FIG. 3 (m)), and if there is a text to be further learned, the head office is notified by e-mail (FIG. 3 (n)). By paying an additional text fee to the headquarters 13 by postal transfer or the like (FIG. 3 (o)),
As a result, a further course is assigned to the homepage 15 as a room (private room) dedicated to the learner 11 and set (FIG. 3 (h)).

Thereafter, if necessary for the learner 11,
The procedure of (5) to (8) will be repeated.
Is completed after learning of all courses selected by the user (Fig. 3
(M)) If the additional course is not at that time, the contract can be temporarily suspended (Fig. 3).
(P)). Then, the learner 11 waits for a new course to be added to the homepage 14 of the headquarters 13, and if any of the added courses he / she wants to learn anew, the e-mail is sent to the headquarters again. 13 and informs the student of the course he / she wants to select (FIG. 3 (q)), and pays a new tuition fee by postal money order or the like (FIG. 3 (r)).
Homepage 1 as a dedicated fictitious room (private room) 1
5, a new course is set (FIG. 3 (h)), and learning can be resumed.

The text of each course may not be created in the headquarters 13 but may be created by the contracted external teaching material provider 17. In this case, when there is a question about the text, the head office 13 contacts the external teaching material provider 17 who created the text, and after the head office 13 obtains the answer of the external teaching material provider 17, the learner 1
1 will be reported. Here, the external teaching material provider 17
In order to pay a fixed amount of use of the teaching material from the head office 13 every time the learner 11 selects the text created by the teaching material provider 17, the external teaching material provider 17
The willingness to create teaching materials increases, and better teaching materials can be provided.

Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the following operations are provided. Since the learning system 10 is performed via the homepages 14 and 15 of the Internet 12 and the e-mail 16, if the environment can be connected to the Internet 12,
It is possible to learn about the learning contents necessary for the learner 11 whenever and wherever the learner 11 can learn, and a fictitious room (private room) dedicated to each learner 11 is dedicated to each of the learners 11. Because the personalized homepage 15 appears on the display, the learner 11
It is possible to increase the motivation to learn.

The learner 11 has an imaginary room (private room) dedicated to himself / herself in the server of the headquarters 13 as an individual homepage 15.
The user is provided with a pre-selected course which is necessary, and by opening the course contents, the text necessary for the course is displayed on the display of the computer of the learner 11. In the provided text, any unclear points or the like held by the individual learners 11 can be solved by the learners 11 asking the headquarters 13 by e-mail 16 and answering the e-mails 16 from the headquarters 13. For this reason, the learning motivation can be prevented from being lost due to the inability to solve the unknown part during the learning, and the learning content necessary for oneself selected can be advanced in accordance with one's understanding.

When the learner 11 receives a notification from the learner 11 by e-mail 16 that the learning of the provided teaching materials has been completed, the headquarters 13 sends the learner 11 a homepage 15 dedicated to the learner as an imaginary room. Since the new teaching materials are provided, when the amount of learning is enormous, the learner 11 can proceed with the learning at his / her own pace steadily step by step, separating the learning of the learning contents that he / she has selected for himself / herself. .

The embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the specific structure of the present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and the design can be changed without departing from the scope of the present invention. The present invention is also included in the present invention. For example, the present invention can be used for holding a learning cram school over the Internet.

[0033]

As described above, according to the present invention, a learner's willingness to learn is enhanced by using the Internet and creating a personalized home page for each of a plurality of learners in the server of the headquarters. Learning can be performed according to the level of the learner during the time when the learner can learn.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram illustrating an overall system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a room content of a learner appearing on a display.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a series of flows of the learning system according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Internet-based learning system 11 Learner 12 Internet 13 Headquarters 14 Headquarters homepage 15 Homepage as an imaginary room (private room) for each learner

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A learning system using the Internet, wherein a headquarters stores, in a server owned or rented by itself, a homepage of the headquarters and fictitious rooms for individual learners registered as members. In addition to creating a homepage for each student, a special identification number and password are issued to each learner. Each learner opens the homepage of the headquarters and places his or her own identification number in a predetermined location on the homepage of the headquarters. By entering a password, you can link to your own homepage as your own fictitious room created in the server of the headquarters, and contact the headquarters by e-mail in advance to identify yourself as your fictitious room. Learn the course text provided on the dedicated website and ask questions about the content If it arises, contact the headquarters by e-mail, and the headquarters will respond to the questions by e-mail if there are any questions about the learning content from the learners by e-mail. Learning system. 2. The above-mentioned headquarters establishes a new homepage dedicated to the learner as an imaginary room for the learner when the learner has received a notification by e-mail that the learning of the provided teaching material has been completed. The internet-based learning system according to claim 1, which provides teaching materials.