Asynchronous Interaction Method for a Remote Teleteaching Session

We present a method for an asynchronous interaction during a remote teleteaching session. In a synchronous teleteaching session, the professor can view the work of students and correct them. This is provided by a shared window application. A shared window application allows collaboration-transparent, single-user application to be displayed and interacted with on multiple users’ workstations. However, the functionalities of a shared window application is limited to a synchronous interaction session. In this paper, we describe an efficient method that is a step towards an asynchronous application sharing. This method provides two application services. The first service allows a student to record his X-application session and to make comments on it. The second service enables a remote professor to replay the student’s Xapplication session. Those services help building an efficient asynchronous interaction between a professor and a student. This interaction is supported by a symmetric architecture based on WWW mechanisms, considerably eases the implementation of such an asynchronous interaction.