JPH10333539A - Personal computer communication learning system and record medium recording learning data for personal computer communication learning system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate large amount data transmission and to prevent the transmission line of a large capacity from being used for over the long period of time in a personal computer communication private school. SOLUTION: Data for which the images of a teaching material are decomposed and made into image components are inputted to a student side terminal 1 beforehand through this recording medium M1 for recording them, the teaching material corresponding to the progress of a student is selected, the data made into the image components pertinent to the teaching material are specified and signals for commanding the progress of a scheduled curriculum are transmitted from a teacher side terminal 2 to the student side terminal 1 through a communication channel 3. Then, the data made into the image components are combined by an image synthesizer 109 inside the student side terminal and displayed at a display device 107 on a student side.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an efficient learning system used in a personal computer communication school capable of increasing concentration of students and providing guidance according to the abilities and characteristics of the students. The present invention relates to a recording medium on which learning data for a personal computer communication learning system is recorded.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the spread of personal computers, personal computer communication schools (tutors) that support study through personal computer communication and the Internet have been rapidly expanding in recent years. This computer school is roughly divided into two categories.

[0003] The first category is a C with learning materials.
This is a system for studying by putting a D-ROM in a personal computer at home. This learning teaching material CD-ROM includes, for example, teaching materials for various subjects from elementary schools to high schools and universities, teaching materials for examinations such as national examinations and certification examinations, A curriculum such as adult education, a hobby of Go, shogi, etc. is stored, and a predetermined curriculum automatically proceeds. Then, the teacher grasps the learning result of each student, receives a question from each student, and provides learning guidance via the personal computer communication.

[0004] The second category utilizes computer communication and is similar in content to the former, but
It is a large data transmission type that transmits and receives moving images that change sequentially with the progress of learning, or still images and audio that change intermittently, between the teacher side and the student side as a whole. And a long transmission time.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a problem to be solved by focusing on the following problems in a personal computer learning system belonging to the first category. That is, in the conventional personal computer communication school, provided CD-RO
As the contents of M, a question, an answer, or the like is simply displayed on a screen, and a means for watching a specific portion is not particularly taken, so that the student's attention may be distracted. In addition, the system did not employ a system in which the progress of the curriculum could be modified or selected as appropriate in accordance with the abilities and characteristics of the students. Therefore,
If these were to be handled under the conventional system,
It was necessary to prepare various types of CD-ROMs in which different data were input by each student, and the entire system became very expensive, low in feasibility, and impractical.

[0006]

Means for solving the problems A means for decomposing a moving image or a temporally changing still image to be displayed as a teaching material into a plurality of image parts, and storing all image part data in a recording medium in advance Means for distributing to the student side, means for selecting appropriate teaching materials according to the student's progress, means for allowing the teacher to transmit a signal specifying the teaching material to the student side via the communication line, communication line The problem is solved by a combination including at least one of means for limiting transmission to only limited information.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS As shown in FIG. 1, this system is roughly divided into a student terminal 1, a teacher terminal 2, and a line 3. Each of the student terminal 1 and the teacher terminal 2 may be either an aggregate of a standard commercially available personal computer and peripheral devices connected thereto, or a dedicated machine including both of them. . In addition, since both terminals may have basically the same structure, a reference numeral 203 obtained by adding a numeral 100 to the reference number of each component of the student terminal 1 for simplicity of illustration. To 215.

[0008] The term personal computer used in the present specification is an exemplary one used as a representative of computers in a broad sense. Therefore, CPU or M
A desktop, notebook, or mobile personal computer, as long as it is a data processing device with a built-in PU and the necessary peripheral devices can be connected internally or externally,
It does not matter whether it is a computer, a TV receiver with a personal computer function, a game machine with a personal computer function, or the like.

The communication connection may be any of a direct connection via an NTT line or a connection via personal computer communication, Internet communication or the like.

[0010] the terminal 1, the recording medium M ₁ which teaching material data and parts of the the character image data that has been at least part of is recorded is incorporated. The recording medium M ₁ is connected to a recording medium driving device 101 (also a write operation, as the case may be) performed at least read operation. The recording medium M ₁ may be other data, including part of voice data has not been recorded, also various programs for controlling the sequence of operation described below may be recorded. For example, it is shown teaching material data 21, character image data 22, audio data 23, teaching the index data 24, image size data 25, the recording medium M ₁ which various control programs are recorded in FIG.

[0011] In FIG. 2, various control programs, which are recorded on the recording medium M _1, without recording them programs on a recording medium itself for distributing, for example, those from the teacher terminal through the communication The program may be recorded on a hard desk (not shown). Or may be a control program recorded on the recording medium M ₁ (or its compressed file) installed in the hard disc, it is particularly effective when the recording medium M ₁ is relatively low speed.

Here, the recording medium M ₁ used in the present invention.
It should be noted that is not intended to record a program that proceeds as it is, using the learning curriculum or data recorded therein. This point is the traditional learning material CD-R
This is a significant difference from OM.

In the following description, a recording medium M ₁ is a CD.
-ROM (read only CD) is mentioned as a representative example,
The present invention is not limited to this. For example, CD-R (write-once write once CD), CD-RW (rewritable CD), MO
(Magneto-optical desk), MD (mini desk), DVD (digital video desk), FD (floppy desk), etc. The recording medium driving device 101 may select a recording medium driving device suitable for the type of the recording media M ₁ and M ₂ employed. The adaptation device in the embodiment of the present invention is a CD-ROM drive device.

[0014] terminal 2, preferably, data relating to the student (e.g., results of learning progress and past check test students) are incorporated recording medium M ₂ being recorded. Further, various programs (for example, a teaching material management program) for controlling a series of operations described later on the teacher side terminal may be recorded. As the recording medium M _2, a recording medium M
_In the case of recording a large amount of student data, a large-capacity recording device is preferably used. The recording medium driving device 202, may be selected as suitable for the adopted recording medium M _2.

Although not shown, a large-capacity storage device such as a hard disk device is arranged between the recording medium driving devices 101 and 201 and other control units to streamline data flow. Is common.

The line 3 is for electrically connecting the student terminal 1 and the teacher terminal 2 and is typically a telephone line. These terminals are normally connected via a line interface unit 4, for example, a modem or a terminal adapter.

Next, FIG. 1 shows how each component functions when the system of the present invention actually operates.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

When a student desires to start learning, a signal to that effect is transmitted to the teacher in order to have the teacher transmit learning data. The transmission of the signal may be performed by telephone communication. For example, when the power supply 103 of the student terminal 1 is turned on, a communication control program on the student side starts, and a start signal is transmitted to the communication control unit 102. The communication control unit 102 that has received the message may turn on the telephone line 3 with the teacher-side terminal 2.

When communication with the teacher terminal 2 is enabled,
The communication control unit 102 transmits the student identification signal and the receivable signal to the teacher terminal 2 according to the communication control program. When the communication control unit 201 of the teacher side terminal 2 receives these signals, according to the teaching material management program running on the teacher side terminal, a teaching material selection / operation designation / voice designation device (not shown)
Based on the received student identification signal, a moving image or a time-varying still image as a learning material suitable for the student to use in the personal computer communication learning system of this time is determined. Typically, this decision is based on historical data about the student (eg, what material has been completed so far, judging from the results of the verification test, and which materials the student does not yet understand). made, these data based on, for example, is stored in the recording medium M _2.

Then, based on the selected teaching material and the characteristics of the student (for example, the student's ability estimated from the results of the confirmation test performed in the past), how to move the character image should be improved. Or, what kind of sound should be output is determined.

For example, if it is known from the past data regarding the student that the student is not good at relational pronouns, an action to move the character image more slowly than usual is specified, or a more detailed explanation than usual. Select the sound that was made. Next, the communication control unit 201 transmits to the student terminal 1 a teaching material specifying signal for selecting and specifying the current learning material, a character image specifying signal, an operation specifying signal, and a voice specifying signal.

The communication control section 102 on the student side receives these signals and stores all the signals in the received signal storage device 104 (for example, as shown in FIG. 3). The received signal storage device 104 may be a part of the above-described large-capacity storage device (hard disk). When all these data are recorded in the received signal storage device 104, the communication control unit 102 turns off the telephone line 3 with the teacher side terminal 2 once and operates offline until it is necessary to communicate thereafter. (In some cases, the bidirectional communication state may be maintained without being turned off.)

At the same time, the communication control unit 102 sends a teaching material specifying signal to the menu screen creating device 105. Menu screen creating device 105 in accordance with the menu creation program, the teaching material heading data recorded in the recording medium M _1, calls all materials heading data corresponding to the materials specified signal, the display image information memory these materials heading data Then, the menu screen is displayed on the display device 107 (see FIG. 4).

Thereafter, when the student selects a desired learning material (for example, by inputting a key from the keyboard 108a or clicking the mouse 108b), the image synthesizing apparatus 109 receives the desired learning material specifying signal and receives the desired learning material. The learning teaching material data corresponding to the teaching material specifying signal is called from the recording medium 101 onto the teaching material image decoding unit 110. Thereafter, this data is sent to the display image information memory 106, and the display device 107 displays only the teaching material image (in FIG. 5, all images except the index finger 51 corresponding to the character image).

Next, when a command to start the teaching operation is issued by the student (for example, by key input from the keyboard 108a or clicking the mouse 108b), the teaching operation start signal is transmitted to the image synthesizing apparatus. 109
The image synthesizing apparatus 109 which receives this signal and starts the operation of synthesizing the teaching material image and the character image (the index finger 51) according to the componentized data synthesizing program.

Firstly, the character image specified signal related materials students selected, calls from the receiving signal recording apparatus 104 calls the character image signals corresponding to the character image specified signal from the recording medium M _1. With this,
Call the operation designation signal for the teaching material selected by the student,
Based on this operation designation signal, the above-mentioned character image data is called in a form positioned on the character image decoding unit 111.

Next, the teaching material data on the teaching material image decoding unit 110 and the positioned character image data on the character image decoding unit 111 are combined, and the data is sent to the display image information memory 106. The display device 107 displays the incorporated teaching material image.

Since the operation designating signal includes a time index, the character image decoding unit 1 according to the time index.
The character image data positioned on 11 is rewritten, whereby a moving image in which the character moves on the screen is displayed on the display device 107.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an outline of the operation up to this point.

When the character moves on the screen, the corresponding sound may be output synchronously (FIG. 6,
7). In this case, the video / audio output control device 112 linked to the image synthesis device 109
According to the audio synchronization program,
4 based on audio designation data stored in the sound data corresponding to calls from the recording medium M ₁ on the voice output memory 113, to be outputted from the audio output unit 114 in synchronization with the movement of the character image Made by

For example, in FIG. 5, the index finger 51 synchronizes with the progression of the pronunciation of He is a student in <Example sentence 1> of the teaching material image, and moves the lower side of the spell as indicated by an arrow 52 from left to right. Can be displayed by moving to. At this time, when the index finger 51 blinks (blinks),
Helps raise student attention.

Next, the operation procedure of the above system will be described. First, a short time after the student turns on the power supply 103 of the student terminal 1, a menu screen as shown in FIG. 4, for example, is displayed. On this menu screen, the titles of two teaching materials related to English for first-year junior high school students and one teaching material for Japanese language are displayed. These materials are based on database of student teacher terminal in 2 of the storage device M _2, it is selected which is most suitable.

These teaching materials are based on the textbook used by the student, and a plurality of teaching materials including the place where the student studied at school today are selected.

In FIG. 4, the leftmost column 41 indicates the type of subject, and the second column 42 from the left indicates the planned study month / day entered in accordance with the desired schedule and submitted to the student in advance. Reference numeral 43 denotes an input value of the degree of understanding based on self-evaluation at the time of learning at school. Column 44 is the day you learned at school,
In the field 45, if the user has learned this teaching material using this system in the past, the day is entered. If the user has taken a confirmation test, the evaluation score (0 to 100 points) is input. Box 4
Reference numeral 6 denotes a textbook page. Column 47 shows the number of the teaching material data of this system. Column 48 shows the textbook title of the textbook.

For example, in the English language subject, 33 pages were studied at school today, and if the student wants to review the page, the student selects the second teaching material. Shortly after the selection, the content screen of the second teaching material shown in FIG. 4 is displayed as shown in FIG. At this stage, the teaching material is merely displayed, but when the explanation key is pressed, the finger 51 in FIG. 5 moves, and the moved portion is explained. For example, when the index finger 51, which is a character image, moves from left to right as shown by an arrow 52 in FIG. 5, in synchronization with the movement of the finger, the pronunciation of "Heise A Student" or "He is a student" And "Hey is the first person here, and the next Be verb is Iz". As described above, since the student is noticed by the moving finger, the commentary made synchronously is very effective.

[0035] In the embodiment described above, based on data relating to the student that is recorded on the recording medium M _2, it is exemplified embodiments the teacher teaching management program selects the automatic learning materials, not limited to this Alternatively, a human teacher may be stationed at the teacher terminal 2 and the teacher may play a role of a teaching material management program, thereby designating learning materials, character image movements, voices, etc., which students in charge of the teacher can learn. .
In that case, no need to record data on a recording medium M ₂ relating to the student, the data such as the learning conditions and past check test students it is sufficient to record on paper notes or the like. Then, when the teacher designates a teaching material or the like, a program for transmitting the above-described various signals to the student may be incorporated in place of the teaching material management program.

When the teacher is stationed at the teacher side terminal 2 in this way, the student can call the teacher in charge or send question data to the teacher side terminal by personal computer communication during learning. . When the teacher in charge responds to this, by transmitting the above-mentioned operation designation signal or the like to the student terminal in order to watch a specific portion on the screen, the specific portion can be recognized by the character. The move makes it easier for students to understand the answers.

In the above embodiment, only the teacher controls the composition of the component data, but the composition of the component data may be controlled by the student.

As a first example, referring to FIG. 5, the display character image may be changed to another character image instead of the index finger 51 according to the student's intention. In this case, the student side terminal 1 further includes an operation designation signal correction device 115. Examples of the display character image other than the index finger 61 include an arrow, a dart (dart), a heart mark, and the like. When the student gives an instruction to change to another character image, for example, via the keyboard 108a or the mouse 108b, a character image change signal is sent to the motion designation signal correction device 115. As a result, when the image synthesizing device 109 calls the character image specifying signal from the received signal storage device 104 according to the character image changing program, the character image specifying signal from the received signal storage device 104 Is rewritten to the character image specifying signal.

At this time, since the character image specifying signal is changed, the motion designating signal (for example, the movement start point, the movement end point, the enlargement magnification, etc.) set based on the previous character image data is applied as it is. In this case, the newly selected character image may run off the screen. Therefore, instead of rewriting only the character image specified signal, operation designation signal is also the size of the previous character image data, a new size (which size data of the selected character image data is recorded on the recording medium M ₁ ) And a new operation designating signal which is calculated based on the previous operation designating signal and does not protrude.

As a second example, a student may directly input a learning material to be studied instead of selecting a learning material from the menu screen as described above. In this case, a learning desired teaching material specifying signal is added to the signal sent to the teacher side terminal in addition to the student specifying signal and the receivable signal (see the flowchart of FIG. 6). In the above example, the data is recorded on the recording medium M ₂ of the teacher about students, some or all of this data (e.g., texts which use learning progress, comprehension, etc.) The student may be input, in which case the data is transmitted to the teacher via communication means (preferably in the form of signals).

Further, as an additional effect of converting the teaching material data and the like into parts, even when a new part image is distributed by version upgrade or the like, it is sufficient to receive only the difference communication distribution. Can be easily reused, so that the amount of communication can be reduced and the use efficiency of communication lines can be greatly improved.

It is not necessary for the student terminal 1 or the teacher terminal 2 to be fixedly operated at a specific place, and for example, a personal computer learning is carried out using an ISDN line (or an ISDN public telephone) on the go. It is possible to

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

2 is a diagram illustrating a data recording stored on the medium M ₁ such as CD-ROM.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of data transmitted by a teacher and received by a student communication control unit;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a menu screen displayed on a display device on the student side.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a screen displaying a teaching material.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the first half of a flowchart illustrating an outline of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating the latter half of the flowchart illustrating the outline of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 1 student side terminal 2 teacher side terminal 3 communication line 4 line interface unit 101, 201 recording medium driving device 105 menu screen creation device 107 display device 108a keyboard 108b mouse 109 image synthesizing device 110 teaching material image decoding unit 111 character image decoding unit M ₁ , M ₂ recording medium

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A personal computer communication learning system in which a student terminal is connected to a teacher terminal via a communication line, wherein at least the student terminal includes a personal computer main body, at least a recording medium driving device, a display device, A plurality of component data obtained by decomposing a moving image or a time-varying still image used in a personal computer communication learning system, comprising input / output peripheral devices including a keyboard and / or a mouse. And a signal for specifying a moving image or a time-varying still image suitable for the student, and a communication line from the teacher terminal to the student terminal. The componentized data in the recording medium is assembled at least by an image synthesizing device provided in the student terminal in accordance with the signal from the teacher terminal. Display on a display device as a moving image or a time-varying still image, whereby communication via the communication line is limited to a very limited range. PC communication learning system. 2. A recording medium for recording learning data for a personal computer communication learning system in which a student terminal is connected to a teacher terminal via a communication line, the moving image being used in the personal computer communication learning system. Alternatively, a plurality of component data obtained by decomposing time-varying still image data is recorded, and a moving image or a time-varying still image transmitted from the teacher terminal is specified. According to the signal, at least in the image synthesizing device provided in the student terminal, the program for combining the componentized data and displaying the moving image or the temporally changing still image on the display device is also recorded. Learning data for a personal computer communication learning system, wherein transmission and reception of data via the communication line is limited to a limited range. Recording the recording medium.