A remote learning system combines on-line service information and remote user
information
with a television signal designed to be received by students using multimedia personal
computers. The combined signal is then transmitted to all of the students at their
personal computers. At each personal computer, the received signal is separated
into its component parts by a VBI modem for display or control on/of the personal
computers. Each personal computer is capable of communicating back to a main server
over a network such as a public telephone network. A broadcasting facility integrates
the information transmitted over the network from a single student with the television signal.