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.