由於傳統的教育存在著一些缺點，加上最近幾年來網際網路與E-Learning的興起。因此我們設計了一套以PBL為基礎的互動式教學系統－(Health Information Network Touring System)以下簡稱HINTS，希望能夠彌補傳統教育的不足。
本論文使用HINTS來教育醫學院的學生，我們提供了許多嶄新的功能幫助學生有更好的學習效果。為了讓學生能夠模擬真實世界的內視鏡操作情境，本論文實作出「內視鏡模擬測驗」，藉由醫師提供的真實內視鏡影片編輯題目讓學生操作。當學生在學習時遇到問題希望能夠討論時，一般討論區只能讓學生以文字的方式描述問題。本論文實作一個「多媒體資料錄製與播放器」，讓學生使用麥克風錄製聲音和使用滑鼠在影像上劃線做記號來描述他的問題，並且在HINTS的討論區發佈含有此檔案的文章。為了使不同的HINTS主機能夠彼此分享教案資料，本論文實作了「聯盟機制」，讓不同的HINTS主機能夠透過共組聯盟的方式，達到彼此分享教案的目的。為了讓教師能夠掌握學生的學習狀況，本論文也實作了一套「評估工具」統計學生操作教案的紀錄，並且提供指派作業和鑑別率分析的功能。

For the rise of the internet, the e-learning has become more and more important. We design and implement HINTS (Health Information Network Touring System), a PBL-based interactive learning system to help students fully understand how to apply their knowledge to clinical cases.
This paper provides some mechanisms to improves the effectiveness of the traditional medical education. We develop tools to simulate the operation of endoscope. Students can know how to do the diagnosis from the real endoscope video tape. Our MMD (Medical Multimedia Documents) lets students record their voices and the mouse movements to describe the issues they want to discuss through BBS (Bulleting Board System). Students and teachers can also post their MMD files in the forum, and share their experiences on the internet. HINTS also provides the federal mechanism to allow several servers to share their teaching material across several organizations. The system also has assessment tools to evaluate the students’ learning performance.

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