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The paper describes a concept and facilities of the VIEW Classroom, a distance education system supporting interactions between a teacher and students. In a classroom a basic interaction between them is performed by questions and answers. In distributed education systems such an one-to-many interaction frequently implies difficulties in selecting by a teacher essential questions, and causes overload of a teacher and delays in the answering. The VIEW Classroom System provides a facility for the teacher to specify key phrases associated with locations of the teaching material. These phrases can be referred by students in their questions. A teacher can select essential students1 problems from a list of questions ordered either by the predefined priority or by the frequency of questions. To avoid delays in answering questions the system provides a question support facility which makes possible to answer some questions automatically, by reusing previous answers to similar questions. The VIEW Classroom System provides a question accumulation mechanism and a graphical user interface.
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Kagawa, O., Katayama, K., Konomi, S., Kambayashi, Y. (1995). Capturing essential questions using question support facilities in the VIEW classroom. In: Revell, N., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 978. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0049110
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