To provide an interactive duplex telecommunicating method capable of providing students at a remote site with an environment where they can feel the two-way property in broadcast education, etc.
A network connection 27 such as the Internet enabling students at a remote site 13 to ask a question to an instructor at a studio is provided between a computer terminal 25 at the remote site 13 and a two-way engine 29 realizing duplex communication. Moreover, the bi-directional engine 29 presents questions raised by the student to the instructor and a stage manager 35 by ranking the questions according to the number of students and the contents thereof. Moreover, in some cases, the questions can be answered by using database 31, and these answers are transmitted as feedback to the students who asked the questions via the two-way engine 29 and the network connection 27, and can be looked through by the other students via the Internet.
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