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Provide a easily accessed, web cam, white board, data capture (record and replay). For tutorial centers, (commercial, puplic-community colledge tutor labs-, private services), work with an after school hours, tv broadcast of answers to the most common questions.- 1)students call by phone or computer a tutor. 2) they are placed on hold having been routed to a group defined by the type of question beeing asked. 3) tutors answere the question of the largest waiting group on tv. 4) students that keep asking the same question are prioritized and given individual help as a cirtain preliminary skill or knowledge may be needed. 5) all tutorials are recorded and placed into a library (expert system- should be no problem with Microsoft auto help supposed patent issued Jan 20 2004.) 6) students on hold can listen and view previous tutorials addressing simmilar questions while waiting for a real time tutorial. - Schools could werehouse internet requests, (cache them), particularly assingment and fact based specific searches. This would reduce bandwidth, cost of repetitive access, and were a specific assignment mite be resoved by hours of research a representitive sample allowing a student to spend an educational amount of time of 5-10 minutes mite make the educational proccess more efficient. A national, state, and local application would afford overlaping benifits. Unemployed teachers could be used as tutors, commercial, government and private institutions interested in advancing puplic education could participate and filter information respetivly. As they may wish to apply or restrict a cultural, geographic, political, religious bias to content. As curiki is allready organized it mite be used as a repository or other curriculum projects such as public broadcasting, or other universities.

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