摘要:
The system comprises a working station (10) for each student and a station (11) for the teachers all stations being connected to a local area data transmission network. Each station is provided with a keyboard (13) and a video display (14). The teacher station controls a teaching monitor procedure by means of which the image displayed on a student video display can be transmitted to his own video display, or an image from his own video display can be transmitted to that of one or more students. The teacher may also control the storage of an image displayed on the video display in a mass memory (17) and recall a selected image therefrom. The teacher station controls an electronic blackboard procedure enabling selection of the video display of a given working station to function has a blackboard. The blackboard can be operated from the keyboard of any working station enabled by the teacher. The student working stations may be enabled individually or collectively as receivers for the blackboard images. Such images and transmitted and updated continuously by means of a control unit which samples the image at a predetermined frequency and only transmits changing information after each sample. The information is compressed before transmission to reduce the number of signals to be transmitted on the network, and decompressed by the control unit of the receiver when received.