A remote education system includes a Web server, a bidirectional communication server, a content distribution server, an operations management system, a lecturer terminal, and a communication line connection device, and provides remote education to student terminals via the Internet. The operations management system includes a lecture information database for storing lecture schedules, attendance records, and personal information, facial images, and audio, of the students, and performs a lecture establishment processing, an attendance registration processing, a lecture opening processing, an attendance confirmation processing, and the like. The attendance confirmation processing includes a student image acquisition processing, a facial image matching processing, an action request processing, and an action detection processing, which match facial images of students, and detect image changes that occur in response to requested actions.