Method of conducting continuing education programs

摘要

An on-line continuing education course is conducted by a web server. A user takes the on-line course and may stop at any point during the course. The server keeps an account of the user's journey through the course by saving the exact position where the user left. Depending upon the course of instruction, the user could be credited for a partially completed course with fractional credits if so stated in the course description. Thus, the user may resume the course at any subsequent time and the server will take the user to the exact point where he left off. The server also keeps a record of the number of correct answers the user may have scored, and, thus, any credit he may have already earned in a prior session of the same course. ;Informational “bites” and full courses can be easily presented in a news format, similar to on line news services, thereby making continuing education necessary to maintain a certified professional status as easy to read and use as a conventional newspaper.