An Internet-enabled subscription teaching service system has an
Internet-connected lecture server executing a software suite, one or more
teacher-author stations coupled to the Internet-connected lecture server,
having input and display apparatus, and including lecture-authoring
software, and one or more Internet-capable lecture client stations having
lecture-participation software. Teacher-authors use the teacher-author
stations to prepare lectures through the lecture-authoring software, the
lecture server stores prepared lectures and provides lectures on a
pre-determined schedule to lecture clients at the lecture client
stations, and the lecture clients follow the provided lectures at the
lecture client stations through the lecture-participation software. Some
lectures are fully automatic, and some are directed by the
teacher-authors in real time. In the real time case recipients are
directed to WEB pages in unison, and annotation and commentary is
provided by the teacher-author as pages are visited.
