1. An electronic teaching system comprising: (a) at least two learning centers having a plurality of participant alpha-numeric terminals, each with a common computer and a common communication control unit; (b) a group leader terminal, located within a teacher's center, wherein the group leader terminal includes a keyboard, screen, memory and logic means for displaying multi-character response information from the memory onto the screen; (c) communication distribution means within the teacher's center for communicating with learning centers via a plurality of communication channels; (d) a transmission buffer within the memory of the common computers in the learning centers for continuously transmitting the multi-character responses, and adapted for storing at least the keystrokes of all the participant terminals in the relevant learning center together with terminal identifying information for the keystrokes for at least the time period between successive communications from the communication distribution means; (e) means in the communication channels for transmitting the information from each transmission buffer to the memory of the group leader terminal, the information then being displayed on the screen of the group leader terminal, contemporaneously with the multi-character responses being entered at the participant terminals; and (f) social mode means for coordinating participant terminals within the learning centers to collectively respond to a particular question indicated by the group leader terminal.
1. An electronic teaching system comprising: (a) at least two learning centers having a plurality of participant alpha-numeric terminals, each with a common computer and a common communication control unit; (b) a group leader terminal, located within a teacher's center, wherein the group leader terminal includes a keyboard, screen, memory and logic means for displaying multi-character response information from the memory onto the screen; (c) communication distribution means within the teacher's center for communicating with learning centers via a plurality of communication channels; (d) a transmission buffer within the memory of the common computers in the learning centers for continuously transmitting the multi-character responses, and adapted for storing at least the keystrokes of all the participant terminals in the relevant learning center together with terminal identifying information for the keystrokes for at least the time period between successive communications from the communication distribution means; (e) means in the communication channels for transmitting the information from each transmission buffer to the memory of the group leader terminal, the information then being displayed on the screen of the group leader terminal, contemporaneously with the multi-character responses being entered at the participant terminals; and (f) social mode means for coordinating participant terminals within the learning centers to collectively respond to a particular question indicated by the group leader terminal. 6. The system in claim 1 wherein the group leader terminal further comprises lesson storage means and a comparator for comparing a participant's response with a programmed correct response stored in the lesson storage means, the result of the comparison being displayed on the group leader terminal.