JPH09185598A - Learning supporting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain interaction between a teacher and a student by transmitting/ receiving the mail of question and answer through a LAN when there is any question on the student side. SOLUTION: A teacher side PC 100 and (n) pieces of student PC 210 and 220 are connected on a LAN 300. When the student under studying with a CAI 211 of the student PC 210 sends a question to the teacher, in the teacher side PC 100, the question is issued to a mail system 123 at a communication control part 120 of the teacher side PC 100 by transmitting the electronic mail describing the question through the LAN 300 while using a mail system 2121 at a communication control part 212. Thus, when the question is received by the mail, the relevant question is answered at the teacher side PC 100 and the answer is returned through the LAN 300 to the student side PC 210. Thus, teaching materials, for which there are a lot of questions from students especially, can be improved. Besides, the question can be processed without loading burden to the teacher side so much.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a learning support system, and more particularly to a local area network (LAN).
Computer-assisted learning system using a computer on a local distributed system consisting of
ruction: hereinafter referred to as CAI) relates to a learning support system in which a student and a teacher interact through a computer to learn.

More specifically, the present invention relates to a learning support system which is connected to a LAN and is equipped with a stand-alone CAI learning system that operates independently on at least one teacher personal computer and a plurality of student personal computers.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 16 is a diagram for explaining a conventional learning support system. The learning support system shown in the figure is a learning system that is performed between a teacher personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a PC) connected to a LAN and a student PC, and each individual PC has a stand-alone CAI. A learning system is installed.

As shown in FIG. 17, the CAI learning system comprises a screen 31 on which explanations and questions are displayed, a CAI 20, a learner file 40 and a learning situation file 50. The CAI 20 includes an answer input unit 21 that receives an answer from a learner, a scoring unit 22 that scores an answer, a learning level updating unit 23 that updates a learning level based on a scoring result,
The screen is composed of a next screen selection unit 24 for selecting a screen corresponding to the updated learning level and a screen display unit 25 for displaying the selected screen on the screen 31. Further, in the CAI 20, the learner file 4 updated by the learning level updating unit 23.
0 and the learning situation file 50 referred to by the next screen selection unit 24 are connected.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing the contents of the learner file. As shown in the figure, the learner file 40 holds a student ID and the level of the student for each learning item for each learning item. FIG. 19 is a diagram showing the contents of the learning status file. As shown in the figure, learning status file 5
0 indicates the learning preconditions for displaying the learning screen and the change value of the learning level (understanding level) of the learner when the problem displayed on the screen is 100 and the score is 100 points. If it is 50 points, it becomes an intermediate value.

As the CAI management function, the learning level, learning prerequisites, and learning effect of each student are managed, and the learning level (understanding) of each student is stored for each learning item. To each of these management information, a learning precondition indicating the degree of understanding that the learner must reach in order to display a certain learning screen is added to the problem correspondence for each screen, and the answer to the teaching material is completed. The learning effect is also managed at this point. In this way, the CAI selects a plurality of screens that match the learning preconditions from the learning level of the learner, and selects the screen with the highest learning effect from them.

In this learning support system, the student displays the teaching material provided in such a stand-alone type on the screen, learns by viewing the teaching material on the screen, or answers the question displayed on the screen. To go. On the teacher side, L
Only the progress information of the students is acquired and managed through the AN.

When the student has a question to the teacher, the student makes a phone call or a videophone call to the teacher and verbally tells the teacher the screen corresponding to the question. The screen is displayed on both of the PCs 21, and a question and answer is conducted by telephone while watching the screen.

[0009]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional system, the learning support system provided as a stand-alone type has a function of simply displaying and viewing the provided teaching materials, or simply solving a problem. It only voluntarily answers the answer and determines whether the answer is correct or not based on the CAI provided. Further, when the student asks a question, it is not possible to directly input the question to the teacher via the LAN and send it to the teacher. Therefore, a method of obtaining an answer to the question by interacting with the teacher using another communication means such as a telephone is adopted. For this reason, when a question is asked during learning by displaying a certain teaching material, the screen corresponding to the question content is displayed, the teacher is called, and the screen instructed by the student is displayed on the teacher side. You need to show and respond verbally. In particular, if the terminal on which the teaching material is displayed is far away from the phone, it is necessary to write down the screen number (teaching material page number) or the like and call the teacher to ask a question about the teaching material on the screen.

That is, since there is no interactive function between the PCs arranged on the conventional LAN, question and answer between the teacher and the student is impossible on the same communication means (LAN). The present invention has been made in view of the above points,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a learning support system that enables dialogue between a teacher and a student in CAI on a LAN.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a learning support system capable of improving the teaching materials which are frequently asked by students. A further object of the present invention is to provide a learning support system capable of processing a question without putting much burden on the teacher.

[0012]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, at least one teacher terminal and a student terminal for issuing a question to the teacher terminal include a local area network (LA).
N), a computer-based learning support system (CAI) between the teacher terminal and the student terminal.
In a learning support system that uses Q & A to answer questions, the student terminal issues a question to the teacher terminal and
A question sending means for sending an email via the, and an answer receiving means for receiving an answer from the teacher terminal, and the teacher terminal uses the question receiving means for receiving the question from the student terminal and the student terminal And an answer sending means for sending an answer by mail via a LAN.

Further, in the second invention, the above-mentioned student terminal has question generating means for giving to the question the comprehension level data of the teaching material item corresponding to the question of the student, and the teacher terminal is for the student It has an analysis means for analyzing the comprehension level data of the question received from the terminal and outputting the analysis result.

In the third invention, the above-mentioned analysis means is a morpheme analysis means for performing a morpheme analysis on the text information of the question, and a word extraction means for extracting a word related to the contents of the teaching material from the words acquired by the morpheme analysis means. And a word storage unit that classifies and stores the words extracted by the word extraction unit.

A fourth aspect of the present invention is, when the question content classification means for classifying the content of the question received from the student terminal and the number of questions classified by the question content classification means is larger than a predetermined number, It further has a word replacement unit that acquires a word stored in the word storage unit of the analysis unit and replaces it with another similar word.

A fifth aspect of the present invention is a learning support system for conducting a question-and-answer session using a computer-based learning support system (CAI) between a plurality of student terminals connected to a local area network (LAN). In the system, the first student terminal issues a question to the second student terminal and sends a question by mail, and an answer reception unit that receives an answer from the second student terminal. Means for receiving a question from the first student terminal in the second student terminal, and an answer transmission for sending an answer to the first student terminal by mail via the LAN. And means.

A sixth invention is a learning support system (CA) using a computer with a LAN interposed between at least one teacher terminal and at least one student terminal.
In the learning support system for transmitting and receiving data by using I), in the student terminal, the comprehension level data that can be acquired from the CAI of the self terminal and / or the learning effect data is sent to the teacher terminal by mail via the LAN. The teacher terminal has a transmitting means, and the teacher terminal acquires the understanding level data and / or the learning effect data acquired from the student terminal and analyzes the data, and the result analyzed by the data analyzing means for the student. And an evaluation result transmitting means for transmitting to the terminal.

In a seventh aspect based on the sixth aspect, the data transmitting means has a means for transmitting the comprehension level data and / or the learning effect data to the teacher terminal at a predetermined cycle, and the evaluation result is obtained. The transmitting means has means for transmitting the evaluation result to the student terminal at a predetermined cycle.

An eighth invention is a learning support system in which at least one teacher terminal and an electronic library system are connected to a local area network (LAN), and information is transmitted and received between the teacher terminal and the electronic library system. The electronic library system has teaching material information storage means for holding various teaching material information and updating means for updating the teaching material information stored in the teaching material information storage means, and the teacher terminal provides it to the student terminal. The teaching material information and a teaching material information transmitting means for transmitting the updated teaching material information to the electronic library system when the teaching material information is updated, and the updating means of the electronic library system is the teaching material information updated from the teacher terminal. When is acquired, the contents of the teaching material information storage means are updated with the teaching material information.

In a ninth invention, the teacher terminal in the eighth invention further comprises teaching material information acquisition means for acquiring teaching material information from the teaching material information storage means. Thus, according to the first aspect of the invention, the student can issue a question to the teacher via the LAN, and the student can also receive the answer from the teacher via the LAN.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the question level is transmitted to the teacher's terminal by adding the understanding level data that can be obtained from the CAI to the teacher's terminal. It is also possible to display a graph or send the analysis result to the student.

According to the third invention, the text information of the question sent from the student is analyzed, and the words used in the teaching material are extracted from the words included in the text.
It will be possible to use it later for the reorganization of teaching materials. According to the fourth invention, the questions asked by the students are categorized for each teaching material or each content of the teaching material, and when the value counted for each classification is larger than a predetermined value, the similar content of the teaching material By determining that there are many questions and replacing the word extracted by the third invention with another word, the word to be replaced is a plain one, or an explanation about the word is added, and the teaching material is updated to the same. Since it is possible to prevent the content questions from being repeated, the burden on the teacher is reduced.

According to the fifth aspect of the invention, the question is processed between the student terminals, so that the burden on the teacher for answering the question is reduced. According to the sixth and seventh inventions, not only the dialogue of only questions and answers, but also the understanding level data and learning effect data for the learning of the students are transmitted to the teacher terminal,
It is possible to automatically send and receive the analysis results such as the average score and rank of the students at a predetermined time.

According to the eighth and ninth aspects, when the teaching material information is updated from the CAI to the electronic book system in the teacher's terminal, the teaching material information is stored in the electronic book system. As a result, the latest teaching materials can always be obtained from the electronic book system.

[0025]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a learning system of the present invention. In the system shown in the figure, a teacher's PC 100 and n (two in the figure) student's PCs 210 and 220 are connected on a LAN 300. Teacher's PC
100 is a communication control unit 2 when a student learning by the CAI 211 of the student PC 210 asks a question to the teacher.
Twelve mail systems 2121 are used to send an e-mail describing a question via the LAN 300 to the teacher's PC 10
A question is issued to the mail system 120 of the communication control unit 120 of 0. As a result, on the teacher's PC 100,
When you receive a question by email, answer the question and
The answer is returned to the student PC 210 via the LAN 300.

FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the teacher's PC of the present invention. As shown in the figure, on the teacher's PC, CAI11
0, communication control unit 120, progress management unit 130, question analysis unit 140, input / output unit 150, search unit 160, question accumulation unit 1
70 and a progress information management unit 180.

The CAI 110 is a stand-alone CAI as in the conventional case. As shown in FIG. 3, the communication control unit 120 includes an answer issuing unit 121, a question receiving unit 122, and a LAN mail service unit 123. LAN
When the LAN mail service unit 123 of the teacher's communication control unit 120 receives the question mail from the student by 300, the mail is transferred to the question receiving unit 122. Further, when the teacher's answer is input from the input / output unit 150, the LAN mail service unit 12 from the answer issuing unit 121.
An email of the answer is sent to the student via 3.

It is assumed that the e-mail (question) is automatically added with the comprehension data from the learner file 40 shown in FIG. 16 and received by the teacher's PC. The progress management unit 130 manages the progress status of learning according to the content of the email from the student, acquires it, and stores it in the progress information storage unit 180.

The question analysis unit 140 uses the mail system 12
Question accumulating unit 170 accumulating questions acquired from 0
With reference to, the teaching material items with particularly many questions are extracted, and materials such as the organization of the teaching material are generated. When a question is input from the mail system 120, the input / output unit 150 displays it on the display, and when the teacher inputs an answer corresponding to the student's question, the input / output unit 150 displays the answer on the teacher's PC, and the mail system. Transfer to 120. Furthermore, when the teacher generates an answer, the information in the question storage unit 170 and the progress information storage unit 180 can be displayed.

When the teacher generates an answer, the search unit 160 determines, for example, whether the question received from the student has not been asked before, and at what level to answer the question. The progress information storage unit 18 for judging
0 is retrieved and transferred to the input / output unit 150 for display.

The question accumulating unit 170 accumulates questions for each student and each teaching material item. The progress information accumulating unit 180 holds the progress information (understanding level data) given to the question received from the student for each student. FIG. 4 shows a configuration example of the communication frame of the present invention. FIG. 7A is a communication frame when a question is sent from a student to a teacher, and is composed of a recipient address, a sender address, a student ID, a sending date and time, a title, and question content data. FIG. 2B is a communication frame when a teacher sends an answer to a student, and is composed of data of a receiver address, a sender address, a teacher ID, a sending date and time, a title, and an answer content. FIG. 6C is a communication frame for sending from a student to another student, and is composed of data of a recipient address, a sender address, a student ID, a sending date and time, a title, and an answer content.

Next, a series of operations of the present invention will be described. FIG. 5 is a sequence chart for explaining a series of operations of the present invention. In the figure, it is assumed that a question and answer session will be held between one student and the teacher. Step 101) The student has the CAI of his / her PC 210.
It is assumed that learning is performed by using 211 and various kinds of answers are given, and the contents are the learner file 40
It has been accumulated in.

Step 102) When the student asks a question during learning, by clicking the question button displayed on the screen, the question issuing section 2112 of the communication control section 213 shown in FIG. 6 asks the question on the screen. Display the format of and enter the question information as appropriate.

Step 103) When the question information is input from the student, the question issuing unit 2112 generates a transmission frame according to the format of FIG. 4A and transmits it to the teacher's PC 100. In addition, the data of the question content,
It is assumed that the student comprehension level data corresponding to the title (teaching material item) is read from the learner file 40 (FIG. 16) and set.

Step 104) PC 100 on the teacher's side
Upon receiving the question from the student, the question is displayed on the display of the input / output unit 150 and the question is accumulated in the question accumulating unit 170. Step 105) Further, the received progress information for each student is stored in the progress information storage unit 180.

Step 106) The retrieval unit 160 acquires the information in the question storage unit 170 and the progress information storage unit 180, and displays a question list, a progress management list, or an answer screen. Step 107) The teacher displays a dialog box for answering, inputs the answer on the screen, and then the screen shown in FIG.
The communication frame addressed to the student shown in is generated.

Step 108) The generated communication frame is transmitted to the student's PC 210. Step 109) The student displays the answer received by the answer receiving section 2113 of the communication control section 211. Step 110) The teacher's PC 100 collects the statistics of the questions received from the students until then, extracts the teaching material items in which the questions are biased, and uses them for changing the teaching materials.

[0038]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. [First Embodiment] In the following description, an example in which a question / answer is made between the student-side PC 210 and the teacher-side PC 100 via the LAN 300 will be described.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart for explaining the operation on the student side according to the first embodiment of the present invention. Step 201) Question issuing section 2 of student's PC 210
112 receives input from the student indicating that there is input. Specifically, on the screen shown in FIG. 8A, the "question" box is clicked.

Step 202) When the question box is clicked, the question issuing unit 2112 of the student's PC 210 opens a dialog box to prepare for the student's question input. Step 203) The question issuing unit 2112 accepts input of question text as shown in FIG. 8B from the student.

Step 204) Question issuing unit 2112
Converts the question text into the content shown in FIG.
That is, the receiver's address of the communication frame transmitted to the teacher's PC 100 is the address of the teacher's PC 100, the sender's address is the address of the given terminal, and the student ID is uniquely given to the system. Own ID stored in
The date and time of the call is the system date of the day, the title is the learning material item currently being studied, and the question content data is Step 203.
The content of the question text input by and the learning comprehension data of the learner (student himself) in the learner file 40 are set.

Step 205) When converted into a mail document in Step 204, the question issuing unit 2112
The communication frame is transmitted to the teacher's PC 100 via the LAN mail service unit 2111. Next, a case where a teacher sends an answer to a student will be described.

FIG. 9 is a flow chart for explaining the operation on the teacher side according to the first embodiment of the present invention. Step 301) Question receiving section 1 of teacher's PC 100
22 receives the inquiry message from the student-side PS 210 via the LAN mail service unit 123.

Step 302) The question receiving unit 122
The received question message is displayed on the input / output unit 150 as shown in FIG. At this time, if a question is received from the student, a message to that effect is displayed. Step 303) Here, the teacher looks at the question content displayed on the input / output unit 150 and inputs the answer corresponding to the question from the keyboard of the input / output unit 150. FIG.
In the example of (A), a list of question contents being received at that time is displayed, and in the example of the figure, it is shown that there are questions from three students. At this point, the teacher first decides which student to answer, and
Enter the answer corresponding to the question title, as shown in 0 (B).

Step 304) As a result, the reply issuing unit 121 acquires the input reply, and the reply is issued as shown in FIG.
The communication frame shown in is generated. At the recipient address of the communication frame at this time, the student PC to which the response is sent
The address of 210, the address of your terminal at the sender's address, teacher ID
Is an ID that is uniquely set for each teacher, the date and time of the call is the system date and time, the title is the teaching material item corresponding to the answer,
As the answer content data, the answer entered in step 303 is set for each student.

Step 305) The response issuing unit 121
Answer to student P via LAN mail service 123
Send to C210. FIG. 11 is a flow chart for explaining the operation at the time of receiving an answer on the student side according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Step 401) The answer receiving unit 2113 of the student-side PC 210 receives an answer from the teacher-side PC 200 via the LAN mail service unit 2111. Step 402) First, a list of received replies indicating that replies have been received is displayed. This displays that there are multiple answers when the teacher returns answers to multiple questions.

Step 403) Step 402 above
Select the answer you want to display from the received answer list displayed in. Step 404) The selected answer is displayed on the display. Thus, according to the first embodiment, the LAN
Since questions and answers can be sent and received via the 300, dialogue between the student and the teacher by e-mail is possible.

[Second Embodiment] Next, an example of asking and answering questions between students will be described. In FIG. 1, a student PC 21
A question and answer session shall be held between 0 and 220. In this example, a question is issued from the student PC 210 to the student PC 220, and an answer is acquired from the student PC 220.

FIG. 12 is a sequence chart showing a question and answer operation between students according to the second embodiment of the present invention. Step 501) First, in the question issuing unit 2112 of the student PC 210, the screen shown in FIG. 8 is displayed, the question to be transmitted to the student 220 is input, and the question is generated according to the format of FIG. 4A. To do.

Step 502) The generated question communication frame is transmitted to the PC 220 via the LAN mail service unit 2111. Step 503) Communication control unit 22 of student PC 220
The No. 1 receiving unit (not shown) receives the communication frame via the LAN mail service unit 2221 and displays the question.

Step 504) A screen for answering the displayed question is displayed, and the answer sentence is input.
The "teacher ID" in the communication frame shown in (B) is the student ID
To generate a communication frame. Step 505) The transmitting unit (not shown) of the student PC 220 transmits the answer to the student PC 210 via the LAN mail service 2221.

Step 506) The receiving unit 2113 of the student PC 210 receives the answer via the LAN mail service unit 2111. As described above, according to the second embodiment, it becomes possible to process the question among the students.

[Third Embodiment] Next, as a third embodiment, a process of morphologically analyzing the text information of the question received from the student PC and obtaining statistics on the words subjected to the morphological analysis will be described. FIG. 13 shows the configuration of the question analysis unit of the teacher terminal according to the third embodiment of the present invention. The question analysis unit 140 shown in the figure includes a morpheme analysis unit 141 and a word extraction unit 14.
2. A word conversion unit 143, a conversion dictionary 144, a learning material word dictionary 145, and a word-converted learning material file 146.

The morphological analysis unit 141 includes a question storage unit 170.
The text portion of the question received from the student PC is acquired, and the text portion is referred to by the conversion dictionary 144.
Morphological analysis is performed and the result is transferred to the word extracting unit 142. The word extracting unit 142 refers to the teaching material word dictionary 145 and compares it with a word registered in the teaching material word dictionary 145.
For example, in the teaching material word dictionary 145, the words currently used in the teaching material and the replaceable words are registered as a set. For example, the word “module test” used as a teaching material and “unit test” as a word registered as a set are stored. The word extracting unit 142 acquires a word corresponding to the word currently used in the teaching material.

The word conversion unit 143 acquires a word paired with the word currently used in the learning material acquired from the learning material word dictionary 145 acquired by the word extraction unit 142, rewrites the text of the learning material with the word, Converted teaching material file 146
To update. For example, suppose that you received the question "What kind of test is a module test?" At this time, it is assumed that the teaching material file 146 has a description that “a module test is performed by dividing by a module dividing technique”.

Therefore, the morphological analysis unit 141 performs morphological analysis on the question such as "module test", "what", "what,""test,""is,""what", and then the word extraction unit. 142 refers to the teaching material word dictionary 145 and extracts the “module test”. This “module test”
In the teaching material word dictionary 145, "unit test" is registered as a pair. As a result, the word conversion unit 143 replaces the “module test” part currently registered in the teaching material file 146 with “unit test” and converts it into the description “divide by module division technique and perform unit test”. Then, it is registered in the post-word conversion teaching material file 146.

As described above, according to the third embodiment, by analyzing the question in the teaching material and converting the word, when the question about the "module test" is received from a large number of students, it is automatically performed. It is possible to convert the contents of the teaching material file in an easy-to-understand manner. For example, when 10 or more same questions are received, the content of the teaching material file is updated and the teaching material is provided to the students.

[Fourth Embodiment] Next, as a fourth embodiment, the statistical processing of the question information accumulated in the question accumulating section 170 in the teacher PC 100 will be described. The question storage unit 170 of the teacher's PC 100 has a PC for each student.
As shown in FIG. 4A, the communication frame of the question information transmitted from 210 and 220 includes a title (teaching material item) and student comprehension level data. As a result, the question analysis unit 140 reads the question storage unit 170, sorts the question information by title, and totals the number of questions for each title. Therefore, if a title with a large number of questions is extracted, and if the student's level of understanding of the title is low, it is determined that the title (teaching material item) should be considered, and a list for making various revisions. To generate.

As statistical processing, the average score or the average score for each student may be calculated with reference to the comprehension level data and learning effect data of all the students, and the average score may be transmitted to each student via the mail system 120. It is possible. As described above, according to the fourth embodiment, it is possible to extract teaching materials and teaching material contents with a large number of questions and use them for revision of teaching materials.

[Fifth Embodiment] Next, as a fifth embodiment, the comprehension level data is acquired from each student PC, and the comprehension level data is aggregated to obtain an average score and a ranking for each student. An example of analyzing and transmitting to each student PC will be shown. At this time, the question accumulating unit 170 stores the student P
It is assumed that the comprehension level data acquired from C has been accumulated.

FIG. 14 shows the configuration of the question analysis unit of the teacher's PC according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the totaling unit 191 reads the comprehension level data stored in the question accumulating unit 170 and performs totalization of points as preprocessing for calculating the average score. Next, the average score calculation unit 192 calculates an average score based on the totalized score and the number of received data. Furthermore, the ranking determination unit 193 determines the ranking for each student,
It is output to the mail system 123 of the communication control unit 120.
As a result, the mail system 120 delivers the average score and ranking data for each student.

Further, at the time of distribution, it is possible to arbitrarily set the frequency or time for transmitting the data to each student, and automatically deliver when the set time comes. As described above, according to the fifth embodiment, it is possible to analyze the data acquired from the students and automatically deliver the results of evaluating the progress status and grades of the students at a predetermined time.

[Sixth Embodiment] FIG. 15 shows a sixth embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a system configuration diagram of the embodiment of FIG. The system shown in the figure includes a teacher's PC 100 and an electronic book system 40 on a LAN.
In this configuration, 0 is connected. Teacher PC 100
In addition to the communication control unit 120, the teaching material update unit 101 and the teaching material storage unit 102 are included. In addition, the electronic book system 400
Has a database updating unit 410, a communication control unit 420, and a teaching material database 430.

In the teacher's PC 100, when the teaching material (teaching material storage unit 102) is changed (updated) in the above-described third embodiment, the updated teaching material contents are updated to the LAN 300.
To the electronic book system 400, and the electronic book system 400 updates the teaching material database 430 by the database updating unit 410. As a result, it is possible to reflect, in the electronic book system 400, a learning material in which the progress status of the student is not good or the teaching material with many questions is revised.

It is also possible to specify and read a teaching material from the electronic book system 400 in the teacher PC 100 and store it in the teaching material storage unit 102. This allows
The teacher's PC 100 only needs to hold the teaching material to be transmitted to the students, and the teaching material storage unit 102 of the teacher's PC 100 does not need a large capacity.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, but can be variously modified and applied within the scope of the claims.

[0068]

As described above, according to the first invention, L
If there is a question on the student side to the CAI learning system between terminals connected by AN, LA
Since it is possible to send and receive questions and their answers by mail via N, no other communication medium is required for the questions.

According to the second aspect of the invention, the question transmitted from the student terminal to the teacher terminal is sent together with the comprehension level data that can be acquired from the CAI, so that the data is analyzed and the comprehension level is graphed. , It can be used as a material for compiling teaching materials on the teacher side. According to the third aspect of the invention, it is possible to use the morphological analysis of the questions asked by the students and extract the difficult words to make the teaching material easier to understand on the teacher side. .

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, if there is a replaceable word among the words asked by the student, it is possible to automatically replace the word of the teaching material with the easily understandable word. . According to the fifth aspect of the invention, it is possible to solve the problem among students connected to the LAN without interposing a teacher's PC.

According to the sixth invention, the teacher terminal can evaluate the student's grade based on the comprehension level data acquired from the student side and transmit the evaluation result to each student via the LAN. Become. According to the seventh and eighth inventions, the teacher's terminal and the electronic book system are connected via a LAN, and the updated teaching materials are sequentially registered in the electronic book system. It becomes possible to take out the teaching materials.

As described above, according to the present invention, by connecting the terminals for the student and the teacher having the CAI operated in the stand-alone type by the LAN, the LA between the teacher and the student is set.
Through N, dialogue by mail becomes possible. further,
By analyzing the questions, it becomes possible to improve the teaching materials that have many questions from the students.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a learning system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a teacher's PC of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a communication control unit on the teacher side of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a communication frame of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a sequence chart for explaining a series of operations of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a configuration diagram of a communication control unit on the student side of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining an operation on the student side according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a screen display example of a student according to the first embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart for explaining the operation on the teacher side according to the first embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a screen display example on the teacher side according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart for explaining the operation on the teacher side according to the first embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 12 is a sequence chart showing a question and answer operation among students according to the second exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a configuration diagram of a question analysis unit of a teacher's PC according to a third practical example of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a configuration diagram of a question analysis unit of a teacher's PC according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a system configuration diagram of a sixth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a diagram for explaining a conventional learning support system.

FIG. 17 is a configuration diagram of a CAI learning system.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing the contents of a learner file.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing the contents of a learning status file.

[Explanation of symbols]

 20 CAI 21 Answer input section 22 Scoring section 23 Learning level updating section 24 Next screen selecting section 25 Screen display section 31 Screen 40 Learner file 50 Learning status file 100 Teacher's PC 101 Teaching material updating section 102 Teaching material accumulating section 110 CAI 120 Communication control System 121 Answer issuing unit 122 Question receiving unit 123 Mail system 130 Progress management unit 140 Question analysis unit 141 Morphological analysis unit 142 Word extraction unit 143 Word conversion unit 144 Conversion dictionary 145 Teaching material word dictionary 146 Word converted teaching material file 150 Input / output unit 160 Search unit 170 Question accumulation unit 180 Progress information accumulation unit 191 Aggregation unit 192 Average score calculation unit 193 Rank determination unit 210, 220 Student side PC 211,221 CAI 212,222 Communication control unit 2111,221 LAN mail system 2112 Question issuing unit 2113 response receiver 300 LAN 400 electronic book system 410 database updating unit 420 communication control unit 430 Materials Database

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[Claims] 1. At least one teacher terminal and at least one student terminal for issuing a question to the teacher terminal are connected to a local area network (LAN), and the teacher terminal and the student terminal. In a learning support system for performing question and answer using a computer-based learning support system (CAI), the student terminal issues a question to the teacher terminal and sends an email via the LAN. And a question receiving unit that receives an answer from the teacher terminal, the teacher terminal, the question receiving unit that receives a question from the student terminal, to the student terminal A learning support system comprising: an answer sending unit that sends an answer by mail via the LAN. 2. The student terminal has a question generation unit for giving to the question comprehension data of a teaching material item corresponding to the question of the student, and the teacher terminal has a question received from the student terminal. 2. An analysis unit for analyzing the comprehension level data of, and outputting an analysis result.
The described learning support system. 3. The analysis means, a morpheme analysis means for performing a morpheme analysis on the text information of the question, a word extraction means for extracting a word related to the content of the teaching material from the words acquired by the morpheme analysis means, and the word extraction. The learning support system according to claim 2, further comprising word storage means for classifying and storing the words extracted by the means. 4. A question content classification unit that classifies the content of a question received from the student terminal; and, if the number of questions classified by the question content classification unit is greater than a predetermined number, the analysis unit The learning support system according to claim 3, further comprising a word replacement unit that acquires the word stored in the word storage unit and replaces it with another similar word. 5. A local area network (LAN)
In a learning support system in which a question-and-answer system uses a computer-based learning support system (CAI) between student terminals connected to each other, the first student terminal asks the second student terminal a question. And a reply receiving unit for receiving a reply from the second student terminal, wherein the second student terminal is the first A learning support system comprising: a question receiving unit that receives a question from a student terminal; and an answer transmitting unit that emails an answer to the first student terminal via the LAN. 6. A computer aided learning system (CAI) is used in a system comprising at least one teacher terminal, at least one student terminal, and a LAN connecting the teacher terminal and the student terminal. In the learning support system for exchanging data, the student terminal sends the teacher terminal an understanding level data that can be acquired from the CAI of the terminal and / or learning effect data by mail via the LAN. And a teacher terminal, the understanding level data acquired from the student terminal, or
A learning support system comprising: a data analysis unit that acquires and analyzes the learning effect data; and an evaluation result transmission unit that transmits the evaluation result analyzed by the data analysis unit to the student terminal. 7. The data transmitting means has means for transmitting the understanding level data and / or the learning effect data to the teacher terminal at a predetermined cycle, and the evaluation result transmitting means has a predetermined cycle. The learning support system according to claim 6, further comprising means for transmitting the evaluation result to the student terminal. 8. A local area network (LAN) comprising at least one teacher terminal and an electronic library system.
A learning support system connected to the teacher terminal for transmitting and receiving information between the teacher terminal and the electronic library system, wherein the electronic library system stores teaching material information storing means for holding various teaching material information and the teaching material information storing means. The teaching terminal provides the teaching material information to be provided to the student terminal and the teaching material information updated to the electronic library system when the teaching material information is updated. The updating means of the electronic library system updates the content of the teaching material information accumulating means with the updated teaching material information when the teaching material information is acquired from the teacher terminal. A learning support system characterized by doing. 9. The learning support system according to claim 8, wherein the teacher terminal further includes a teaching material information acquisition unit that acquires teaching material information from the teaching material information storage unit.