Study on Nursing Distance Education by a Communication Satellite

结合卫星和交互式远程教育系统，对该系统进行了个人使用实验。本文报道了实验结果。远程护理教育期望的领域是会议或专题讨论会的传递、最新信息的提供、知识分子的讲座、新技术和医疗实践的介绍，这表明了他们对卫星远程教育的期望。通过对利用卫星的远程教育系统的长期研究，明确了实现以下目标的实际方法；(1)互动性强；(2)实时性强；(3)成本低、易操作；(5)利用卫星远程授课的通用性强。目前正在开发交互式远程教育系统，用户仅通过个人计算机接收和使用讲座。对于在线远程教育系统，讲师的视频图像显示在屏幕的一半上，用户与讲师之间的问答使用屏幕的另一半进行。此外，用户可以在讲课时间之外复习以前的讲课内容或检索连接到internet的各种数据库。

We carried out experiments of the system capable of personal usage, combining the satellite and the interactive remote education system. The experimental results are reported in this paper. The desired fields in the remote nursing education were relay of conferences or symposiums, provision of the latest informations, the lectures by intellectuals, introduction of new technologies and medical practices, which showed their expectation to satellite-remote education.The actual methodology to realize the following targets was cleared by our continuous studies on the satellite-utilizing remote education system for a long time ; (1)interactive, (2) real time, (3) low cost, easy operability and (5) generalization in the satellite-utilizing remote lecture.The interactive remote education system is now being developed, in which the user receives and makes use of the lecture only using the personal computer. For the on line remote education system, video image of the lecturer is displayed on the half part of the screen, and asking and answering between the user and the lecturer is done using the remaining half part of the screen.Furthermore, users are able to review the former lecture or retrieve various kinds of data base linked to Inter Net outside the lecture time.