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20080213740 | System and Method for Creating, Executing and Searching through a form of Active Web-Based Content - Xml pages are obtained from knowledge bases that contain step by step instructions. The xml pages are presented as “active content,” by which we mean a series of prompted questions and answers. A user's interactions with the active content is recorded so that the results may be copied to the user's clipboard for automatic transfer to a problem management/ticketing system. Active content that contains embedded questions asked of the user may be used to infer answers to some of the questions from a search query, and, thus, alleviate the need for the user to answer them. | 09-04-2008 |
20080227080 | STUDENT ASSESSMENT SYSTEM - Input and storage devices, student assessment systems, and methods of administering an examination are disclosed herein. An input and storage device according to one embodiment includes at least one processor, provisions for inputting answer data to the processor, and computer memory coupled to the processor. Recorded within the computer memory are machine readable instructions for: storing the answer data previously input to the processor; providing the stored answer data to a reader device; storing unique identifier data that corresponds to a user; and providing the stored unique identifier data to a reader device. The instructions for providing the stored unique identifier data to a reader device may be utilized independently of the instructions for providing the stored answer data to a reader device. | 09-18-2008 |
20080241810 | CUSTOMIZED MODULAR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT - The present invention includes an audiovisual instructional module that includes one or more lessons on a computer readable medium, wherein each lesson provides instruction to one or more students for a pre-determined time, wherein each lesson is taught by an instructor with a teacher effectiveness index of more than one grade level per year of instruction and wherein the module permits a student to view the module one or more times and review any portion of the module one or more times in order to master the lesson. | 10-02-2008 |
20080248454 | REMOTE LABS FOR INTERNET-DELIVERED, PERFORMANCE-BASED CERTIFICATION EXAMS - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for presenting an internet-delivered, performance-based certification exam to a user. The process requests connection details for a remote computing server in response to receiving a login from the user. The process transmits a web form to the user, wherein the web form presents an objective portion of the certification exam to the user. The process initiates a remote computing client to present a practical portion of the certification exam to the user, and responsive to receiving the completed certification exam from the user, the process calculates a score for the certification exam according to a verification script. | 10-09-2008 |
20080254434 | Learning management system - Learning management systems and methods are provided with improvements allowing meta-tagging of learning objects with specific characteristics. An intelligent tutor application may employ the tags in search and tutorial scenarios. In some embodiments, an intelligent tutor application is programmed for selecting and providing learning objects for presentation to a participant through the participant client application, the intelligent tutor application including a software interface adapter for sending software interface function commands associated with the conformant learning object on behalf of the participant, the intelligent tutor application further including a search and selection software module, a learning style analysis software module, and a tutoring engine software module. In some embodiments, an intelligent tutor interacts with a SCORM-compliant LMS through a modified API adapater. | 10-16-2008 |
20080261193 | Management Information System - A management information system, computer implemented method and computer product for managing tutoring services. A networked server is provided which includes a processor, a memory coupled to the processor and a database operatively stored in the memory. The database comprises a first database component operative to maintain a plurality of tutor records, each tutor record being associated with an individual tutor and including tutoring data representing an available tutoring subject and a tutoring locality; a second database component is operative to maintain a plurality of student records, each student record being associated with an individual student and including student data representing a requested tutoring subject and a student locality. A database engine is operatively loaded into the memory and includes instructions executable by the processor to determine a suggested tutor/student allocation in dependence on a correspondence of at least the data representing a tutoring subject and locality among the tutor and student records, generate a suggested tutor/student allocation and output the suggested tutor/student allocation in a tiered order of preference of tutors and sends notices to the identified tutors. | 10-23-2008 |
20080268417 | Method and System for On-Line and In-Person Skills Training - A method for training a student in a skill over a network and a student accesses the system and it displays a list of at least one training location. In one embodiment, the preferred training location sells training materials to the student and the student identifies that he is ready to be tested. The invention transmits, to the student, at least one of a first set of questions based on the skill. Once the answer is received, it is responded to in real time. An embodiment determines if the answer is one of a correct answer or a wrong answer and either a correct or an incorrect notification is sent to the student. Both the correct and incorrect notifications can be edited and can be customized for each training location to include an advertisement for the product in a response regarding products related to the question. | 10-30-2008 |
20080274444 | ELECTRONIC DATA EXCHANGE - In an aspect, the specification provides a system for exchange of data comprising a plurality of questioner workstations connectable to a network and a plurality of answerer workstations connectable to the network. The system also provides a data exchange engine connected to the questioner workstations and the answerer workstations via the network. The data exchange engine is configured to receive at least one question from at least one of the questioner workstations and to present the at least one question to at least one of the answerer workstations. The data exchange engine is also configured to maintain a compensation pool associated with the question. The data exchange engine is further configured to collect answers to the question and present the answers to the questioner. The data exchange engine is further configured to distribute at least a portion of the compensation pool to an answerer associated with at least one of the answerer workstations. The data exchange engine is further configured to receive a quality rating for each of the answers. The compensation pool is distributed to the answerer based on the answerer according to the ranking quality. | 11-06-2008 |
20080286740 | CONSTRUCTIONISM LEARNING SUPPORT SYSTEM UTILIZING ONLINE GAME AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - Disclosed is a constructionism learning support system based on an online game and a method for the same, and more particularly to a constructionism learning support system utilizing an online game and a method for the same, which can support collaborative learning, task-based learning, and problem-based learning based on a constructionism learning theory. The system for supporting constructionism learning utilizing an online game, including: a learning support server including a quest management unit for receiving and managing a quest input by a learning manager on online prior to learning and a constructionism learning support unit for supporting collaborative learning based on the input quest through construction of a learning community, task-based learning of performing the quest, and problem-based learning of performing the task given from the quest; an online learning game server including a game-learning interlock unit interlocking with the learning support server so as to progress a role-playing game in real time, and a lesson management server interlock unit interlocking with a lesson management server so as to collect and transfer log information of a learner, such as information on a participant, lesson contents, results, or the like; the lesson management server including a lesson participant management unit for authorizing the learner, a lesson statistics management unit for managing lesson-related statistics, such as lesson progresses, evaluation, and academic achievement, and an interlock control unit for controlling the interlock of the learning support server with the online learning game server, and the interlock of the lesson participant management unit and the lesson statistics management unit; and multiple learner terminals connecting to the learning game server so as to simultaneously enjoy a game and learn in real time. The disclosed supports collaborative learning, task-based learning, and problem-based learning utilizing the online game based on the constructionism learning theory, so as to improve efficacy and interest of the learner and improve the learning effect. Further, the learning manager (teacher) can provide various learning tasks through the learning support system, and efficiently manage the learning-related matter, such as the lesson progress and evaluation, or the like. | 11-20-2008 |
20080286741 | Systems, methods, and software for online courses - A system for online courses. The system includes a database of course work items, including a set of one or more documents of an online textbook, with the documents being logically associated with first and second feedback modes. The system also includes functionality for providing the one or more documents to a first client device in response to a first user request and to a second client device in response to a second user request, with the one or more documents provided to the first client device logically associated with the first feedback mode and those provided to the second client device logically associated with the second feedback mode. | 11-20-2008 |
20080293033 | IDENTITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING MULTI-STAGE, MULTI-PHASE, MULTI-PERIOD AND/OR MULTI-EPISODE PROCEDURE FOR IDENTIFYING AND/OR AUTHENTICATING TEST EXAMINATION CANDIDATES AND/OR INDIVIDUALS - A method and/or system for identity management and authentication of examination candidates by, for example, capturing biometric data and identification information from an examination candidate and storing the data and information in a database. The method and/or system includes, for example, capturing biometric data from an individual at a later time for comparison with data stored in the database, and which allows authentication of the individual after determining that the biometric data matches the previously stored data and the individual matches the previously stored information. | 11-27-2008 |
20080299532 | METHOD, SYSTEM, SIGNAL AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ASSURING FEEDBACK IS RECEIVED FROM STUDENTS OF AN ONLINE COURSE - An application for a system that assures feedback is provided from a student to a professor of an on-line course. The system includes a computer with at least a processor, memory and storage and software running on the computer for accepting inputs indicating the student feedback. Once the student feedback is entered by the student, the software running on the computer determines if the student feedback is valid, and if it is valid, the student feedback is provided to the professor and a final grade is provided to the student. If it is not valid, no final grade is provided. | 12-04-2008 |
20080318199 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR EDUCATIONAL USE - The present disclosure provides a computer system and associated usage method solely for educational purposes. The computer system is a computer appliance focused solely for educational use operating only educationally approved programs and loading only educationally approved content. Advantageously, such appliance provides a secure and focused platform for learning that can be used at home by parents and students and in class by teachers, parents, and students. | 12-25-2008 |
20090011397 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING COMPENSATED EDUCATIONAL INTERACTION - A method of managing compensated education on a computing platform, includes the steps of: providing compensated educational interaction over a computing platform thereby enabling a user to earn compensation for an educational interaction, collecting interaction data regarding the compensated educational interaction from the computing platform thereby generating collected interaction data, and providing an information set based on the collected interaction data thereby allowing an information set receiver to act based on the substance of the information set. | 01-08-2009 |
20090029335 | Educational system and improved teaching method - An educational system and improved method for teaching students using lessons taught by both a live teacher and by recorded multimedia presentations. The teacher teaches a lesson to the students, and then, divides the students into subgroups assigned to different workstations. Each workstation can include a different but related recorded lesson stored on a recording medium and at least one recording playback device for playing audio and video recordings. After the live lesson, the students begin the recorded lessons at their assigned workstations. The students are required to watch and listen to a recorded lesson and are rotated among workstations to view and listen to each recorded lesson. To determine each student's mastery of the lesson, the students are tested on the subject matter presented by the recorded lesson. Students who fail to meet a predetermined level of performance on the test are required to repeat the lesson. | 01-29-2009 |
20090042177 | PORTABLE STANDARDIZED CURRICULUM CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A portable standardized curriculum content delivery system presents a menu-driven classroom curriculum in compliance with standardized educational requirements. The disclosed system includes a portable standardized curriculum content delivery system for projecting video, images and playing audio recordings. The portable standardized curriculum content delivery system includes engaging multimedia educational programs for uniquely presenting educational material complying with predetermined educational objectives. The predetermined educational objectives prepare learners for specific standardized achievement goals. Included testing features assist in evaluating student achievement and fulfillment of standardized educational requirements. The system is flexible in use and can be used according to a prescribed usage plan (included), or ad-hoc as needed to assist in teaching. | 02-12-2009 |
20090042178 | Methods and systems for managing educational data - Methods and systems for assigning a unique identifier to a student or staff member data record are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods and systems include the following: receiving student or staff member data to develop a data record; validating the data; flagging data errors in the student or staff member data to create work assignments for correcting the data errors; identifying a worker or end user to complete the work assignment; routing the work assignment to the end user, wherein the end user is at one of the state, district, or school levels of an educational organization; limiting access of the end user to only those records within the educational organization that are required to complete the work assignment; completing the work assignment to correct the data errors in the student or staff member data record; and assigning a unique identifier to the student or staff member data record. | 02-12-2009 |
20090047649 | Secure remote testing system and method - Various embodiments of a secure remote testing system and method are described and claimed. | 02-19-2009 |
20090047650 | SYSTEM FOR OPERATING EDUCATIONAL WEBSITE FOR PROMOTING PARENT AND TEACHER INVOLVEMENT - A system for operation of an educational website on a network offers curriculum content provided by one or more curriculum content providers for engagement of student users on the website. The website includes webpages accessible by the students, by a teacher for a class of students registered to use the website, and by parents registered along with their students. An awards scoring component scores the performance of individual student users and awards them award points, which can be redeemed for rewards on the website. The website includes a component for communicating information about student user performance to their teacher and parents in order to promote parent and teacher involvement with students' activities on the website. | 02-19-2009 |
20090081628 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A LESSON - Embodiments of the present invention make it significantly easier for a teacher or other author to create a lesson by allowing them to define a lesson as a state machine. This method is significantly easier for teachers to learn and use and it allows for easy adaptation of classroom lesson plans to lessons in the system. Advantageously, someone with specialized programming knowledge is not required in the lesson creation process. | 03-26-2009 |
20090098524 | Internet-based Pedagogical and Andragogical Method and System Using Virtual Reality - An interactive system and methods of instruction and administration using virtual reality or other technology to create a simulated learning environment of multi-dimensional graphical representations of participants, who interact through individual and collaborative, task-based exercises, via an artificial intelligence engine utilizing an input/output arrangement over a network such as the Internet. This system facilitates synchronous or asynchronous, individual or group instruction to anyone with access to the Internet, measures the efficacy and retention of instruction, and automates faculty processes of grading, scheduled postings, feedback, generating quantitative and qualitative reports, generating adaptive lessons that adjust to participant input, and the like, with exportable and importable academic, financial, and demographic data to address the needs of faculty, administrative staff, including registrars, admissions officers, and counselors, as well as other interested parties such as parents and guardians. | 04-16-2009 |
20090104591 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEARNING ENHANCEMENT BASED ON A SPORTS GAME - A method of practicing educational exercises in the context of a simulated professional competitive sports game. The method includes assembling teams of students to compete against each other in the competitive sports game. Questions are posed to students during play of the sport and the correctness and time of response determines play outcome in the sport. Students have opportunities to make strategy decisions within the sports game context and such strategy decisions can result in harder or easier questions being posed depending on the potential reward of playing one strategy over another. The disclosure is based on baseball as the competitive background, while performing similar exercises in the context of other sports is equally possible. | 04-23-2009 |
20090117529 | Grant administration system - A method and system are disclosed for facilitating the completion of a questionnaire. A storage medium stores a plurality of questions and associated answers. Similar questions are linked. An interface presents to a user through a computer network a presented question as part of a questionnaire to be completed. The interface also presents to the user answers associated with similar questions linked to the presented question. Upon user selection, an answer to a similar question is stored as an answer to the selected question. The user may modify the answer. The method and system may present additional questions and answers associated with similar questions linked to the additional question. A user may have access to stored questions, add questions, and link similar questions. Answers to questions may be stored before the user completes the questionnaire. The questionnaire may include fields populated with information previously supplied by the user without user selection. The storage medium may be a database. | 05-07-2009 |
20090136910 | MEMORIZATION AID - A teaching system including a database including multiple question/answer sets, wherein substantially each question/answer set includes a question and at least one correct answer, and wherein at least two sets are adapted to test substantially a same data item; and a presentation module adapted to present to a user a second question/answer set relating to a first data item immediately following or subsequent to the user correctly responding to a first question/answer set relating to the first data item, and said presentation module further adapted to stop presenting question/answer sets related to the first data item once the user has responded correctly to two question/answer sets relating to the first data item without incorrectly responding to a question/answer set related to the first data item. | 05-28-2009 |
20090155757 | Interactive multimedia instructional systems - The present invention aims at creating an interactive multimedia instructional program that allows inexperienced developers to create multimedia rich and effective learning programs. The present invention uses a commonly used graphics authoring program to pre-program templates that provide instructional frameworks based upon instructional concepts and adult learning theory. A developer uses a template editor to easily modify and customize the instructional templates for a particular use. The final instructional program can be distributed in a wide number of common file formats. | 06-18-2009 |
20090155758 | EXTENSIBLE EXAM LANGUAGE (XXL) PROTOCOL FOR COMPUTER BASED TESTING - A memory stores a plurality of first data structures, which includes element specific data objects indicating a classification of at least one of the plurality of segments of the test definition language, and second data structures, which include attribute specific data objects indicating at least one attribute of the segments of the test definition language implemented by a computer. A method for computer-based testing includes authoring a test specification and content of the at least one test using a test definition language, compiling the test specification and content of the at least one test to create a compiled test specification and content, which includes validating the test specification and content, storing the compiled test specification and content to a resource file, and retrieving the compiled test specification and content from the resource file during delivery of the test. | 06-18-2009 |
20090162827 | Integrated assessment system for standards-based assessments - A computer integrated assessment system for standards-based assessments wherein the assessments conform to recorded standards, the system includes algorithms for directing the generation of a plan of a series of customized assessments aligned to respective selected standards of the recorded standards wherein each of the customized assessments are set for different times within a period of time; and algorithms for enabling a user to generate a test in one of the customized assessments wherein one of the selected standards of the one customized assessment is displayed to the user during generation of questions for the test. During generation of tests, repeating of questions or questions on selected subject matter can be prevented. Individuals or groups can be selected to the customized assessments. Accuracy in grading of answer sheets by scanning is improved by an algorithm determining the lightest and darkest answer mark to determine the intended answer. Additionally student handheld devices can be used to answer questions in test with automatic grading or scoring. | 06-25-2009 |
20090162828 | Method and system to provide a video-based repository of learning objects for mobile learning over a network - A method and system to provide video-based lectures accessible over a network by multiple PDA device types. To build a database, MIIME type PDA-compatible learning objects are generated from raw files (PowerPoint, MSWord, Macromedia Flash files) of an educator. The system includes a host server to provide an interactive server application to receive and convert raw files to audio/video presentations. Each learning object is classified according to a hierarchal educational structure and converted to a plurality of MIME files that match respective video platforms of a variety of PDA devices. The MIME files are tagged with authorship information, title, and/or other search parameters. A database stores these files on a network storage device for subsequent access by a learner's PDA. The network and system conveniently allow students to use their portable devices as a learning tool, and also enables a wider dissemination of expert instructional material throughout the world. | 06-25-2009 |
20090186328 | Method for teaching rapid recall of facts - An internet-based method for teaching rapid recall of facts uses a grid system to deliver facts (i.e. problems) from a teacher-selected pool of facts to individual students in student sessions. Each student session includes a fact practice portion, wherein the student engages in the somewhat mundane, repetitive steps, required to master the particular set of facts and a game practice portion, whereby the student earns game practice time in arcade-style games as a reward for the student's efforts. The method permits a teacher or administrator to track the performance of a single student or a group of students through on-demand reports. Selected reports are also available, on demand, to the student and the student's parents. The method identifies each student's mastered and un-mastered facts based on each student's performance. The teacher can then provide each student with supplemental, individualized materials. The Method automatically notifies teachers and administrators when intervention is needed. The present Method permits teachers and parents to obtain, on demand, customized and individualized work sheets, activity sheets, and flash cards. The present Method delivers math facts in multiple formats, including pre-algebraic and algebraic views, and tracks each student's progress by use of fractions and a pie chart, thereby exposing students to fractions and charts at an early age. | 07-23-2009 |
20090186329 | METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING A TEACHING PLAN IN LITERACY EDUCATION - In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the method for recommending teaching plan for literacy education includes obtaining learning patterns from a teaching plan database that includes the following steps: collecting results of a first literacy test of a first group of students, gathering teaching plan data, collecting results of a second literacy test of a first group of students, and identifying learning patterns based on the student profile data and teaching plan data, and implementing a recommendation engine. The implementation of the recommendation engine includes the following steps: collecting results of a third literacy test of a second group of students, matching a student profile of a student of the second group of students with an identified learning pattern, and recommending a teaching plan for a student of the second group of students. | 07-23-2009 |
20090197234 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A VIRTUAL SCHOOL - The present invention is directed at a software system for use in an online educational environment. In one embodiment, a software system combines and allows communication between a student management system, a learning management system, and various other portals are interconnected and communicate with one another to allow for an completely integrated online educational institution that allows patents, students, and educators to plan and monitor a student's progress. | 08-06-2009 |
20090197235 | Instruction System and Method - A system and method for computer-aided learning that provides for selecting question information from a structured data source and presenting a question to a networked user at irregular or otherwise predetermined time intervals. Described also is measuring the length of time required for the user to respond to the question before presenting the user additional question information to the user, providing user generated text information associated with the question and presenting links to an online community associated with the question. | 08-06-2009 |
20090197236 | IMPLEMENTING USER-GENERATED FEEDBACK SYSTEM IN CONNECTION WITH PRESENTED CONTENT - Users are enabled to provide structured feedback in connection with interactive presentations by responding to a plurality of predefined questions in connection with a plurality of author predefined points. As each question is presented, the user responds and is then presented with a plurality of supporting statements. The user can either selectively access statement details for one of the supporting statements or accept the statements. A plurality of peer-user responses are presented for each of the questions and the user selects one or more of the peer-user responses as corresponding to the user's response. The responses and selections made by users are collected as user feedback data. A scoring system presents relative scores for the responses by the peer users based on the selections, thereby generating feedback useful to content authors in editing and updating their presentations. This approach for collecting user feedback data is also applicable to other applications. | 08-06-2009 |
20090202970 | Single-Click Support for Curriculum - At the click of a button, a student is connected with a live expert or teacher along with the resource the student is viewing. The student and the expert both have the same learning resource in a shared environment and the expert is able to help the student. After the live learning session, the student returns back to self-learning mode and continues with the original sequence. | 08-13-2009 |
20090202971 | On Track-Teaching - An interactive learning and behavioral modification system that utilizes computer hardware and software to create a learning scheme that is portable, individualized, and adjusts to each student. The system analyzes and manipulates the answers or data supplied by the students by a variety of means and then generates a new set of questions or tasks based on the individual student's performance. Problem difficulty is based on the student's performance and is increased or new material is introduced when a predetermined proficiency level has been attained. Furthermore, the data that is gathered from the students' replies is compiled and utilized as a tool to determine the effectiveness of the teacher allowing him or her to modify their teaching methods and improve on deficiencies. This allows the teacher to not only monitor the students' progress, but also their own. | 08-13-2009 |
20090215019 | System and method for interactive education - A method for interactive education includes publicly broadcasting an educational program at a first time, inciting a user to record the educational program, inciting a student to view the educational program at a second time later than the first time, inciting the student to use a computer processor and an information connection to log into an education server, and inciting the student to input information regarding the educational program into the education server. | 08-27-2009 |
20090233263 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEACHING - A system and method for learning. In one embodiment, the system includes a teaching computer having a display module, a question and answer database, a testing module and a test question selection module. The question and answer database comprises a plurality of questions and corresponding answers to the questions, wherein the question and answer database stores information defining a plurality of learning levels for each of a plurality of questions. Each of the questions fall within one of the learning levels. The question and answer database also stores a retest time interval indicating a period of time that must pass between presentations of a selected question to a user. The testing module for providing a plurality of questions to a user and for recording answers to each of the questions. Each of the questions has an associated time interval indicating the duration of time that must pass before the question is presented again by the computer, wherein in response to receiving a correct answer to one of the questions, the teaching computer increases the time interval that is associated with the question. The test question selection module selects questions based in at least in part upon the learning levels and the retest time interval of the questions. | 09-17-2009 |
20090233264 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDICATING A TEST TAKER STATUS WITH AN INTERACTIVE TEST TAKER ICON - An aspect of the present invention relates to an online test platform adapted to facilitate the development, delivery, and management of educational tests with interactive participation by students, teachers, proctors, and administrators even when some or all of them are remotely located. The platform may include administrator interfaces, test proctor interfaces, and test taker (e.g. student) interfaces to allow each participant to view, navigate, and interact with aspects of the online test platform that are intended to meet their needs. | 09-17-2009 |
20090263777 | Immersive interactive environment for asynchronous learning and entertainment - The present immersive interactive environment for asynchronous learning and entertainment enables customization a lesson embodied in at least one lesson data file residing on a computing device. This is accomplished by providing a lesson data file-editing program embodied in at least one sequence of computer executable instructions to an instructor by allowing the instructor to execute the editing program via a computing device in order to customize a lesson data file. The instructor is also provided with at least one general lesson data file via said computing device. The instructor is thus able to customize the general lesson data file via said editing program to create a customized lesson, the customized lesson being embodied in at least one customized lesson data file residing on said computing device. A student will thus be capable of accessing said at least one customized lesson data file via a lesson presentation program embodied in at least one sequence of computer executable instructions and thereby able to perceive the customized lesson. | 10-22-2009 |
20090263778 | System and Method For Real-Time Observation Assessment - Techniques for real-time observation assessment are provided. The techniques, which are designed for educators, take advantage of handheld computers, desktop/laptop computers and Internet access in order to reduce the paperwork associated with conventional educational assessments. An array of instructional assessment applications are designed to run on handheld computers. The instructional assessment applications may be based on existing and widely used paper methodologies. A common Web-based platform for assessment application distribution, selection, download, data management and reporting is also provided. Users can then periodically synchronize instructional data (assessments, diagnostic results, notes and/or schedules) to the Web site. At the Web site, browser-based reports and analysis can be viewed, administered and shared via electronic mail. | 10-22-2009 |
20090280464 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL CONTENT THROUGH GAMING OVER A NETWORK - A method of distributing educational content over a network is disclosed. Educational content is divided into topics and the topics are split into smaller educational units. Professionals reviewing the material for accreditation purposes choose particular units to study and are subject to minimum and maximum time parameters. The partitioning of educational topics allows advertisers to deliver episodic advertising over an extended time period. | 11-12-2009 |
20090280465 | SYSTEM FOR THE NORMALIZATION OF SCHOOL PERFORMANCE STATISTICS - A method and system is provided to directly compare school districts and individual schools across state lines, and the geographic areas served by those schools (counties, municipalities, zip codes, neighborhoods) based on their reported standardized test scores despite the fact that each state has prepared their own version of standardized tests to benchmark the performance of their students. While standardized tests, such as the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) test, can provide a meaningful comparison between any students and schools that were administered the same test, since the tests are different state-to-state a comparison on this basis is generally inaccurate and unreliable. To normalize the local standardized test results based on the differences in tests in different localities, an additional factor is employed as a modifier of the NCLB test results resulting in a normalized comparison. | 11-12-2009 |
20090286217 | HUMAN-RESOURCE-DEVELOPMENT ASSISTING SYSTEM, HUMAN-RESOURCE-DEVELOPMENT ASSISTING METHOD, AUTOMATIC APPLICATION SYSTEM, AUTOMATIC APPLICATION METHOD AND RECORDING DEVICE - A human-resource-development assisting system comprises a human-resource-development assisting device ( | 11-19-2009 |
20090291425 | EDUCATIONAL TOOL - An educational network for grading the performance of a student in a test sat by a plurality of students, comprising a database storing a test to be assessed for said plurality of students; a plurality of student work stations connected to said database to enable said plurality of students to input answers to said task, wherein said answers are stored on said database; and a controller. Said controller being configured to distribute each answer by each said student to at least two other students from the plurality of students; collect scoring data for each answer from the at least two other students; determine outlying results in said scoring data; calculate a performance mark for each said student based on said collected data without said outlying results; calculate a conformance value for each said student based on the difference between the scoring data awarded by each said student to other students from the plurality of students and calculated performance marks for each of said other students marked by each said student, and calculate an overall grade for each said student from said calculated performance mark and said consistency. | 11-26-2009 |
20090291426 | EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING ONE OR MORE LEARNING UNITS TO STUDENTS IN DIFFERENT LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS - A computer system that may, for example, be used for educational purposes delivers content, e.g., instructional content, to a plurality of users, e.g., students. The content is presented to such users in units, e.g., learning units. Each unit has associated with it an assessment information relating to each one of the users. One or more systems, e.g., learning systems, present the one or more units to one or more users in a first interactive environment, e.g., a first learning environment, and a second interactive environment, e.g., a second learning environment, that is different from the first interactive environment. A digital rights and asset management application controls access to the content associated with each one of said one or more units according to corresponding unit identifiers, e.g., learning unit identifiers, and presents such content to the plurality of users in the first and second interactive environments for assessment purposes. An assessment application, e.g., a grade book application, stores assessment information derived from presenting the content to said one or more users in the first and second interactive environments, with the unit identifier correlating the assessment information with the units. | 11-26-2009 |
20090298038 | Method and System for Scenario Based Training with Consequences - A scenario based training or assessment method and/or system including user consequences. The method being performed on a processing system and including providing the user with scenario information and providing the user with a question and a plurality of answers. The user provides a selected answer to be received by the processing system, the selected answer being selected from the plurality of answers by the user. The user is then provided with a consequence based on the selected answer. If the user selects an incorrect answer to the question in a particular scenario, a sequence of multiple scenarios loops back and returns to the particular scenario at a later point in time. | 12-03-2009 |
20090311657 | System and method for providing differentiated content based on skill level - A system and method is disclosed for providing differentiated content to a user comprising determining a skill level of the user, obtaining unmodified content, aligning the unmodified content to a set of content standards, modifying the aligned content in accordance with the user's skill level, providing the modified aligned content to the user, re-assessing the user's skill level based on a response from the user to the modified aligned content, and modifying new aligned content in accordance with the re-assessed user's skill level. | 12-17-2009 |
20090311658 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE COURSES AND PROGRAMS OF STUDY - A system and method for developing a course requires a plurality of participants that collaborate over a network, for example, a social network. A database stores an initial framework that defines a sequence of learning units for creating a desired learning environment for students, those learning units made of specifically ordered content objects. The learning units are identified by corresponding learning unit identifiers. A plurality of workstations coupled to the network are used for entry of reviewer information by the participants using the learning environment created for the students. The reviewer information comprise one or more comments entered by one participant about a learning unit or content object and a rank entered by anther participant about the comment, with the rank being correlated with a defined ranking standard. A processor processes the rank according to a predefined criteria to produce a ranking result that is associated with a learning unit identifier. The ranking result is used for associating learning content to the learning unit identified by the learning unit identifier. | 12-17-2009 |
20090325138 | VIRTUAL INTERACTIVE CLASSROOM USING GROUPS - An online environment server hosts an event, such as a class period or interactive entertainment event, in a virtual reality process. Clients are divided into groups as they join the process according to defined group and user profiles and current group capacities. A human host, such as a teaching assistant, may also join each group as a moderator or administrator. Each group member interacts in real time with other group members via electronic chat. Recordings of group sessions may be accessed later by non-group members. The group server is configured such that the group moderator or administrator may control classroom data flow for her assigned group, such as pausing an animated stream of instructor or event input into the virtual classroom to allow classroom questions or discussion, causing the stream to be cached at the system level. Then, the moderator may resume play of the instructional sequence. When resuming play after a pause, the system server may automatically speed up play of the animated input stream from a cache while continuing to cache as necessary, until parity is reached with the current input stream for all groups. | 12-31-2009 |
20100003659 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED LEARNING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A computer-implemented adaptive learning method is disclosed. The method is intended for performance within the context of a task being carried out by a user. At least one of a sequence of elements presented to the user as part of the task is designated as a learning item. A learning object is selected in dependence upon the designated learning item, information relating to previous performance of the learning method in relation to the user, and a predetermined scheme devised to manage an overall learning process for the user. Presentation of the selected learning object to the user is intended to advance the user's knowledge of the designated learning item in some way. Once the learning object has been presented to the user, the information is updated in dependence upon the presented learning object and/or how the user interacts with or responds to the presented learning object. | 01-07-2010 |
20100003660 | Common Format Learning Device - A common format learning device for teaching and learning commands to control electronic devices, appliances, applications, and user interfaces. The common format learning device provides a common form of presentation, a common user format, and a common translation of technical information across electronic devices, appliances, applications, and user interfaces. The common format learning device uses a form visibly displayed around a periphery of the visible display of an electronic device combined with terminology definitions, a listing of operations and suboperations, color recognition, and a function locator. | 01-07-2010 |
20100009330 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SUCCESS NETWORK AND ASSESSING ENGAGEMENT LEVELS BETWEEN STUDENTS AND PROVIDERS - An integrated student retention system that automatically raises flags identifying at-risk students; permits students to raise flags identifying themselves as at-risk; permits providers to raise flags identifying students as at-risk; provides systems facilitating the process of enabling students to obtain assistance; provides systems for tracking students and providers; and provides systems for measuring effectiveness. | 01-14-2010 |
20100035226 | COMPUTERIZED EDUCATION DEVICE, MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS TO SUPPORT DISTANCE LEARNING - A computerized education device, a multimedia production device and associated methods in accordance with the present invention provide students with an adaptive and proactive interaction learning environment. The computerized education device allows students to log in and take tests and comprises a computer-based learning platform, a content database, a student database and a processor. The multimedia production device has multiple-user and multiple-tasking capabilities to produce multimedia materials and comprises a managing server and multiple stations. A FLASH component conversion method generates a Flash component without expensive creation work and comprises acts of retrieving content, sampling, generating a small web format file, generating a data model and generating a FLASH quiz. The interacting method changes difficulty of content based on responses of students and comprises acts of qualifying, entertaining and compiling statistics. | 02-11-2010 |
20100041008 | INTEGRATED LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS - Integrated learning management is provided for a computer assisted learning system having an instructor led training component (ILT) and a computer based training (CBT) component. The CBT component has a plurality of training materials and a content management service (CMS) that (i) controls an interface between the ILT component and the CBT component. An integrated learning management system and method enforces a plurality of standards upon the ILT component and the CBT component, each said standard governing at least one of quality, uniformity and branding. | 02-18-2010 |
20100047756 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING SECURITY OFFICERS - Systems and methods for training security officers are disclosed. A telecommunications node situated at a guard location may be operable to facilitate the presentation of training questions to a guard situated at the guard location. A training module may be operable to determine one or more training questions to communicate to the telecommunications node based at least in part on a predetermined condition. The training module may further be operable to communicate the one or more training questions to the telecommunications node via a network and to receive a respective answer to each of the one or more training questions from the telecommunications node. The training module may further be operable to determine whether the received answers are correct. | 02-25-2010 |
20100055658 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT - In systems, methods and program products relating to the assessment of individuals, a subject can be provided with an assessment through software and a computer for improved functionality. The software may be directly installed on the subject's computer or may be on a remote server accessible through a communication network, such as a local network or the Internet. Stimuli to be presented to subject are selected in real time and may be selected randomly from a database of stimuli. Further, in the event of borderline cases, a refinement process may be used to provide an accurate assessment of the subject. Methods for the assessment of teams, comprising subject individuals, for the construction of ideal process profiles, and for coaching individuals are provided. | 03-04-2010 |
20100062411 | DEVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK FOR EDUCATORS - A system and method for predicting performance on an assessment and guiding users to take actions to accelerate learning and thereby improve performance on an assessment, as well as providing teacher evaluations, using the Zone of Proximal Development as the driver for understanding the value of prioritizing concepts. Student growth potential is calculated based on concepts most primed for growth as measured by the Zone of Proximal Development and made available to educators and instructors. Concepts are ranked based on priority driven by the ability to impact student growth as assessed in the given concept. Statistics on the relevance of current concepts for future concepts are also calculated and made available. | 03-11-2010 |
20100068688 | MANAGEMENT OF TEACHING PROCESSES FOR INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION IN A MULTISTUDENT ENVIRONMENT - A system and a method are described for managing the process of simultaneously teaching a large number of students, who have a widely varying range of skills in a content area, by using individualized instruction. The system and the method achieve this by allowing the teacher's resources to be utilized more efficiently, which makes the teaching more effective. In addition, it allows the teacher to determine the mastery criteria and the scope and sequence of a content area. Students accelerate through a sequence of skills determined by the teacher using their prior knowledge until they encounter a skill deficiency. Pre- and post-testing is used in conjunction with highly-focused, individualized instruction, in a feedback-loop-cycle until the student masters the specific skill. The system and the method are applicable to any subject area where learning is enhanced by a sequential learning process. | 03-18-2010 |
20100075290 | Automatic Educational Assessment Service - A method and system for automatically helping a teacher/educator evaluate assessments administered to students for determining student's attributes. The teacher/educator reviews stored assessment forms at a digital user interface (DUI) at a multifunction device (MFD) and selects the desired forms and creates an Assessment Batch which includes a List of Students to be given the forms for marking. The system automatically codes each form with personalized student information and prints the individualized assessment forms. The teacher/educator administers the assessment and assessment forms are manually marked, collected and scanned at the MFD, entered into storage and the marked images automatically analyzed and the assessments automatically evaluated from stored rubrics and the teacher/educator is automatically notified by email that the evaluation has been performed. The system enables the teacher/educator to review the evaluations remotely and validate/annotate the evaluation and update the records in storage The Assessment Batch may be created for a list of students in a group, a class, a grade level, a school, a plurality of schools and students in a geographical area. | 03-25-2010 |
20100075291 | AUTOMATIC EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT SERVICE - A method and system for automatically helping a teacher/educator evaluate assessments administered to students for determining student's attributes. The teacher/educator reviews stored assessment forms at a digital user interface (DUI) at a multifunction device (MFD) and selects the desired forms and creates an Assessment Batch which includes a List of Students to be given the forms for marking. The system automatically codes each form with personalized student information and prints the individualized assessment forms. The system may include an assessment repository for storing assessment definitions, rubrics, and administered assessments (e.g., results sheets), an may additionally or alternatively include an assessment analyzer for interpreting scanned imaged of administered assessments. The teacher/educator administers the assessment and assessment forms are manually marked, collected and scanned at the MFD, entered into storage and the marked images automatically analyzed and the assessments automatically evaluated from stored rubrics and the teacher/educator is automatically notified by email that the evaluation has been performed. The system enables the teacher/educator to review the evaluations remotely and validate/annotate the evaluation and update the records in storage. The Assessment Batch may be created for a list of students in a group, a class, a grade level, a school, a plurality of schools and students in a geographical area. | 03-25-2010 |
20100075292 | AUTOMATIC EDUCATION ASSESSMENT SERVICE - A method and system for automatically helping a teacher/educator evaluate assessments administered to students for determining student's attributes. The teacher/educator reviews stored assessment forms at a digital user interface (DUI) at a multifunction device (MFD) and selects the desired forms and creates an Assessment Batch which includes a List of Students to be given the forms for marking. The system automatically codes each form with personalized student information and prints the individualized assessment forms. The system may include an assessment repository for storing assessment definitions, rubrics, and administered assessments (e.g., results sheets), an may additionally or alternatively include an assessment analyzer for interpreting scanned imaged of administered assessments. The teacher/educator administers the assessment and assessment forms are manually marked, collected and scanned at the MFD, entered into storage and the marked images automatically analyzed and the assessments automatically evaluated from stored rubrics and the teacher/educator is automatically notified by email that the evaluation has been performed. The system enables the teacher/educator to review the evaluations remotely and validate/annotate the evaluation and update the records in storage. The Assessment Batch may be created for a list of students in a group, a class, a grade level, a school, a plurality of schools and students in a geographical area. | 03-25-2010 |
20100099070 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AGGREGATING, PRESENTING, AND MANIPULATING DATA FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES - A method and apparatus for aggregating data for instructional purposes. The method includes retrieving student responses, determining at least one bucket type and, if needed, changing the algorithmic criteria defining the at least one bucket type, aggregating the responses according to bucket type, and utilizing the aggregated responses for instructional purposes. | 04-22-2010 |
20100099071 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AGGREGATING, ANALYZING, PRESENTING, AND MANIPULATING PROCESS DATA FOR INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSES - A method and apparatus for presenting aggregated data for instructional purposes. The method includes retrieving student responses, determining at least one bucket type and, if needed, changing the algorithmic criteria defining the at least one bucket type, aggregating the responses according to bucket type, viewing students responses in the aggregated format, wherein the responses are displayed step by step to show the process of arriving to the response, and comparing at least two students responses to each other. | 04-22-2010 |
20100151431 | VIRTUAL LEARNING - Collaborative computer-based learning allows a group of users to access, share, and contribute content. A computer-based system can be accessed by a community of users over a communications network. A data storage device can store data comprising items of teaching content and items of user content, such that the data is accessible by the community of users. A set of collaborative system tools can provide users with the ability to create an item of user content associated with items of teaching content or with other items of user content. An annotation mechanism can provide users with the ability to comment on items of teaching content or items of user content in the form of an annotation that is then stored in the data storage device. The annotation mechanism is configured to merge the annotation with the associated item of teacher or user content and generate merged content with the annotation overlaid on the associated item of teacher or user content. | 06-17-2010 |
20100151432 | COLLECTING USER RESPONSES OVER A NETWORK - The disclosure includes a method of collecting user responses to questions over a network. The method includes receiving sets of data identifying a question and possible responses. The method includes sending one set of data for presentation of the question and possible responses and user selection of at least one of the possible responses. The method further includes receiving data identifying user selections of at least one of the possible responses of the set of data. | 06-17-2010 |
20100159432 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES - An educational recommender system and a method are provided. The method includes receiving a request to recommend a course of action related to a plurality of current students; accessing a computer database storing student data that corresponds to the plurality of current students; clustering in a computer process the plurality of current students into at least two clusters based at least on granular assessment data associated with student data corresponding to respective current students; and outputting the results of the clustering to a user. The granular assessment data includes a result of an assessment administered to respective students of the plurality of current students, and each assessment includes a plurality of questions for assessing one of the current students. The associated result includes an independent evaluation of each respective question of the plurality of questions. | 06-24-2010 |
20100196869 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL COURSES - A system and method for providing educational course data includes receiving identification data of a first educational course of a first educational institution from a client machine and retrieving educational course equivalency data from a database based on the identification data. The educational course equivalency data is transmitted to the client machine. The educational course equivalency data may include identification data of a second educational course of a second educational institution. The educational course equivalency data may indicate that the first and second educational courses are directly equivalent. The method may also include retrieving course information related to the second educational course based on a request and transmitting the course information to the client machine. | 08-05-2010 |
20100227304 | VIRTUAL SCHOOL SYSTEM AND SCHOOL CITY SYSTEM - A virtual school system includes a school management side system with a teacher's terminal and a server computer connected to the teacher's terminal by way of LAN, and a student side system including a plurality of student's terminals connected to the server computer by way of Internet. | 09-09-2010 |
20100227305 | KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT TOOL - The present description refers in particular to a computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for processing and managing test data. The computer-implemented method for processing and managing test data may comprise: | 09-09-2010 |
20100227306 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES - An educational recommender system and a method for recommending an educational game to be used by a group of at least two students are provided. The method includes receiving a request to recommend an educational game to use with the group of students, and accessing student data relating to the at least two students including granular assessment data. The granular assessment data includes a result of at least one assessment administered to respective students, wherein each assessment includes a plurality of problems for assessing at least one of the students and the associated result includes an independent evaluation of each respective problem. The method further includes selecting an educational game that exercises the students in an academic area, including selecting the level of the academic area exercised based on granular assessment data associated with each of the respective students. | 09-09-2010 |
20100255454 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING EDUCATIONAL COURSES - A system and method for managing educational courses includes receiving educational course data from a client machine and retrieving educational course equivalency data from a database based on such data. The educational course equivalency data is transmitted to the client machine. The educational course equivalency data includes identification data of a first course of the first educational institution and/or identification of a second educational course of a second educational institution. The educational course equivalency data may indicate that the first and second educational courses are directly equivalent, indirectly equivalent, and/or reciprocally equivalent educational courses. A user may accept the second educational course as an equivalent of the first educational course, request that the second educational institution accept the first educational course as an equivalent educational course to the second educational course, request additional information, or request opinions from other reviewers as to the equivalency of the first and second courses. | 10-07-2010 |
20100261149 | Web Tool - A method for recording the process of an examinee performing a psychological test where the psychological test includes a finite number of elements that is to be sequentially manipulated. Such tests include memory tests or graphic manipulation tests such as copying complex figures. An observer uses a graphic or text input device, such as a computer, to register and store the time each manipulation is performed. In such a way, the process is accurately recorded in an ecologically valid manner. | 10-14-2010 |
20100261150 | Methods and Systems For Assessing and Monitoring Student Progress In an Online Secondary Education Environment - A set of rules are applied to information relating to student activity in online courses, to form a set of progress indicators. Each morning, dashboards are generated for instructors showing the set of progress indicators, so that the instructors have the latest pertinent information to ensure students are progressing properly. By proactively focusing on the progress indicators, instructors are able to ensure student success. | 10-14-2010 |
20100261151 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE AUTOMATED TRACKING AND ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL GAMES AND INTERACTIVE TEACHING TOOLS - An integrated system and method for the recording, collection, storage, and representation of individual and aggregate use patterns of a fully-developed matrix of interactive course materials supporting K-16 curricula in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects. Students may utilize interactive educational games to assess their performance across multiple subjects and difficulty levels of a curriculum, and obtain feedback and statistics regarding their progress in attaining educational goals. | 10-14-2010 |
20100267000 | Computer systems and method for educational use - The present disclosure provides a computer system and associated usage method solely for educational purposes. The computer system is a computer appliance focused solely for educational use operating only educationally approved programs and loading only educationally approved content. Advantageously, such appliance provides a secure and focused platform for learning that can be used at home by parents and students and in class by teachers, parents, and students. | 10-21-2010 |
20100279265 | Computer Method and System for Increasing the Quality of Student Learning - Today, students are underperforming on the standardized testing. In an effort to better performance on these tests, software systems allow a student to practice different topics. These software systems, however, do not perform a longitudinal analysis of a student allowing the creation of an adaptable learning environment for the system. In contrast, the present invention provides a system that enables a student to answer one or more questions of a problem set. Next, the system stores information for each answer of the one or more questions over a period of time, analyzes the information for each student answer in a longitudinal manner, and identifies one or more deficiencies in learning of the student based on the longitudinal analysis. In this way, the system uses longitudinal analysis to identify student deficiencies, which allows a teacher or parent, using the analysis, to increase the quality of learning for the student. | 11-04-2010 |
20100279266 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYBRID COURSE INSTRUCTION - Systems and methods related to providing an electronic presentation to both in-class attendees and remotely located out-of-class attendees, in which video and audio associated with the presentation is provided to the remote attendees, and out-of-class programmable systems are programmed to execute an educational exercise associated with the presentation and be remotely operated by the remote attendees. | 11-04-2010 |
20100285441 | Global Computer Network Self-Tutoring System - A global computer network method and apparatus for creating and deploying many types of self-tutoring systems across many different platforms is disclosed. A run time engine supports several types of tutorials, in both a client and server context. A Builder enables development and testing of tutorials, formed of teacher composed problems, or an existing approved problems set, or student-user composed problems. The system simplifies the process of tutorial construction to allow educators and students with little or no ITS experience to develop content of problems and teaching strategies (i.e., format of problems including hints, messages and sequencing of related problems). The system provides a Web based interface as a means to build and store these tutorials. A web based reporting component allows for live database reporting to teachers, showing how students are performing. A testing component is web based and allows a teacher to test the quality of student composed problems. Further, the testing component allows addition of the student content to the existing approved problem set as is pertinent. Automated analysis and reporting of experimental tutorials developed by either teacher or student is included. | 11-11-2010 |
20100311030 | USING COMBINED ANSWERS IN MACHINE-BASED EDUCATION - Described is a technology for learning a foreign language or other subject. Answers (e.g., translations) to questions (e.g., sentences to translate) received from learners are combined into a combined answer that serves as a representative model answer for those learners. The questions also may be provided to machine subsystems to generate machine answers, e.g., machine translators, with those machine answers used in the combined answer. The combined answer is used to evaluate each learner's individual answer. The evaluation may be used to compute profile information that is then fed back for use in selecting further questions, e.g., more difficult sentences as the learners progress. Also described is integrating the platform/technology into a web service. | 12-09-2010 |
20110020781 | On-Line Interactive Learning and Managing System - An on-line interactive learning and managing system is disclosed. The system comprises a server for a plurality of users login via the Internet. The plurality of users are allotted to form at least one learning group. The system may form correspondingly an operating interface according to each learning group for executing real-time interactive teaching between the plurality of users. The system further forms a managing interface for managing each learning group or each user's state by an administrator. The administrator uses the managing interface and each operating interface to communicate with each learning group or each user. | 01-27-2011 |
20110039244 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING, DELIVERING AND MANAGING EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL - A method includes receiving data associated with a characteristic of a set of students from a educational delivery system. The characteristic can include, for example, a demographic characteristic, a geographical location, a score of an assessment associated with a learning objective from the plurality of learning objectives, a time to complete the assessment, a number of attempts to complete the assessment and/or an indicator of knowledge of the learning objective based on prior educational experience. A first group of students and a second group of students are automatically selected from the set of students based on the data such that first group of students is substantially identical to the second group of students. A first educational material is delivered to the first group of students. A second educational material is delivered to the second group of students. | 02-17-2011 |
20110091859 | Method for Online Learning - A curriculum is created aligned closely to the state standards. This is broken down into tiny units called factoids, analogous to atoms in chemistry. The factoids are converted into question-and-answer pairs. These are placed on electronic flashcards so that they can be sorted according to the degree of mastery. There is a question on one side and an answer on the other. They are answered mentally. A user/student can choose from the options “Show again: Today, A, B, C, or Never” depending on his/her understanding of the question. A software system remembers each student as an individual and the status of each flashcard that the student has attempted to answer. There are five tiers in the classification system: school> year> subject> topic> and subtopic. A subtopic would contain from 10 to 100 flashcards depending upon the grade level. | 04-21-2011 |
20110104653 | INTERACTIVE DIGITAL WORKBOOK SYSTEM AND METHOD - A digital workbook program, method, and system include a program interface module configured to communicate with a set of applications and a workbook module configured to generate a digital workbook from a master digital workbook. The digital workbook includes content and mechanisms that enable inputs to and receipt of outputs from the set of applications. Also included are a user interface module configured to generate user interface screens within which the digital workbook is presented and a storage module configured to store the digital workbook with user-entered inputs and outputs from the set of applications. The applications can communicate with a set of devices. Also, the digital workbook program, method, and system can be configured to enable authoring of digital workbooks and presentation in a visual library, as well as analysis of user specific digital workbooks. | 05-05-2011 |
20110111384 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING SKILL ACQUISITION INTERFACES - A method and system for capturing expert behavior that the expert is not even necessarily conscious of, such as gaze patterns, that are tied to positive outcomes, and to create a catalog (e.g. database) of these behaviors. The system compares the current behavior of a person, for example a novice, against this catalog of expert behaviors. If the current behavior is significantly different, the system would adapt various aspects of the interface to bring the current behavior closer in line to that of the expert. | 05-12-2011 |
20110117534 | EDUCATION MONITORING - Group-based, periodic education intervention that provides a targeted curriculum selected specifically for each period based on current skill assessment data is described. For example, candidates' skill levels in multiple skills are assessed, and groups are formed based on commonality of skill level. A period-specific curriculum is generated for each group to address the specific needs of the individuals of the respective group. After delivery of the period-specific targeted curriculum over the period, re-assessments of the current skill of the group members are made, and a period-specific curriculum for the subsequent period is generated and delivered. Fidelity of an implementation of the curriculum is analyzed, and alerts, reminders, and reports are provided to improve fidelity of an implementation of the curriculum. | 05-19-2011 |
20110151423 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTING DIGITAL ASSESSMENTS - A method and system for processing a digital assessment template are provided. The system includes at least one tangible processor and a memory with instructions to be executed by the at least one tangible processor for processing a digital assessment template. The template which includes a description of a plurality of data structures that are configured for interpreting an assessment associated with the template. The assessment was marked with strokes by an assessment-taker who was administered the assessment and responded to at least one problem provided by the assessment. The template describes a location of the marked assessment in which to find each stroke that corresponds to a response by the assessment-taker and how to interpret the strokes. Each of the locations and how to interpret the strokes are selectable. | 06-23-2011 |
20110151424 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ELECTRONIC TRAINING JACKETS - A method and apparatus for generating electronic training jackets is disclosed. The method may include receiving a request from a user to generate an electronic training jacket for an individual, retrieving qualification information for the individual from at least one of one or more remote qualification databases and one or more local qualification databases, generating the electronic training jacket from the retrieved qualification information, and automatically outputting the generated electronic training jacket to the user using an output device. The qualification information may be aviation-related and shipboard-related qualification information and the aviation-related and the shipboard-related qualification information may include at least one of medical qualification information, job training qualification information, and education information. | 06-23-2011 |
20110151425 | Method and System for Knowledge Assessment Using Confidence-Based Measurement - A system for knowledge assessment and encouraging learning comprises transmitting to the a terminal a plurality of multiple choice questions and two-dimensional answers thereto, the answers including a plurality of full-confidence answers consisting of single-choice answers, a plurality of partial-confidence answers consisting of sets of multiple single-choice answers, and an unsure answer. The system further administers a confidence-based assessment (CBA) test that presents to the test subject the plurality of multiple choice questions directed to categorical topics, and the two-dimensional answers thereto, by which the test subject indicates both their substantive answer and the level of confidence category of their answer. The system compiles a knowledge profile from the scored CBA test, and encourages learning so that the user can address knowledge deficiencies as identified through the CBA test. | 06-23-2011 |
20110151426 | LEARNING TOOL - A system for learning and method thereof are described. The system comprises a processor; a memory storing a set of instructions for execution by the processor, the set of instructions comprising a learning tool, the learning tool comprises a course management module arranged to generate a course responsive to user input, a test management module arranged to test a user based on at least a portion of the course, the test management module also arranged to filter the portions of the course presented to the user based on a user-supplied rehearsal status value, and a content management module arranged to export at least a portion of the course to one or more formats for user review. | 06-23-2011 |
20110189645 | System and method of knowledge assessment - A system and method of knowledge assessment provides for a computer-executable program capable of generating a user's knowledge profile based on answers to queries posed to the user via a communication network. The user's knowledge profile can be used for creating a detail curriculum in a specific academic subject for the user to pursue or for comparing with the knowledge profile of one or more other users. The detail curriculum, or knowledge path, arranges the subjects to be learned in a hierarchical manner so that the user can determine which subject categories must be mastered before moving to other categories and concepts. | 08-04-2011 |
20110189646 | Pedagogical system method and apparatus - An interactive educational system is adapted to receive training materials, modules and facilities from a plurality of contributors and present an integrated educational experience to a student. | 08-04-2011 |
20110195389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING PROGRESSION THROUGH AN EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM - A processing system and a method are provided for tracking progress through a curriculum having a plurality of topics by analyzing at least one digital assessment. Each digital assessment was administered to an assessment-taker and has at least one problem that assesses the assessment-taker's understanding of at least one of the topics. The system includes at least one tangible processor and a memory with instructions to be executed by the at least one tangible processor for processing the at least one digital assessment and determining which topics of the curriculum have been taught based on which topics are associated with the respective problems included in the at least one processed digital assessment. Furthermore, the instructions may be executed by the at least one tangible processor for accessing and comparing the results of determinations for a first and second groups of assessment-takers of which topics of the curriculum have been taught. | 08-11-2011 |
20110200979 | Online instructional dialogs - A system of online communications among students and the teacher (“Dialogs”) within an educational management system, includes dialogs comprised of integration of online interactions between students and teachers, to be included in K-12 curriculum. Interactions may include lesson plans, assignments, benchmark and formative assessments. The system provides a permanent record of instruction indicating what has been taught and learned, and providing actionable information that can inform future instruction. The system has the ability to record the extent to which intervention has been implemented. Manual and automated scheduling of online interactions provide for real-time and asynchronous communications, and the ability to suspend interactions prior to completion. | 08-18-2011 |
20110207108 | Proctored Performance Analysis - Systems and methods described herein provide for administering and proctoring of a secure online exam that allows for complex testing utilizing practical examination tasks. The practical examination tasks provide for evaluation of the knowledge of the exam taker, as well as the exam taker's ability to apply that knowledge in a real-world environment. By performing the practical examination tasks in the context of a secure online exam, the competence of the test taker can be readily determined without worrying about the exam taker illicitly accessing information on their computer or via a remote source of data. The exam taker may perform the practical examination tasks through manipulation of an evaluation application executing on the exam taker's secured computer. The practical examination tasks may also be carried out through manipulation by the exam taker of an evaluation apparatus coupled to the exam taker's secured computer. | 08-25-2011 |
20110217686 | TECHNIQUES FOR ENABLING ANONYMOUS INTERACTIVE SURVEYS AND POLLING - Techniques for enabling interactive (e.g., two-way) electronic communication between survey/polling administrators and anonymous survey/polling respondents. In one set of embodiments, a user (e.g., respondent) can access and provide responses to a particular survey or poll. The responses can then be routed to an administrator or manager of the survey/poll in a manner that keeps the identity of the respondent hidden. Upon receiving the responses, the administrator can interactively communicate with the respondent while maintaining the respondent's anonymity. | 09-08-2011 |
20110229868 | ELECTRONIC CLASS SYSTEM - An electronic class system includes a class certifying unit for certifying a plurality of students of a class, a class information displaying unit for displaying a school name and a grade level of the class, a class student displaying unit for displaying a plurality of student images of the class, and the student images are linked to a student information group; and a class message announcing unit for displaying at least one message title. Therefore, the electronic class system can save expenses of students and allows the students to update their correspondence data and keep in contact with each other anytime. | 09-22-2011 |
20110236872 | ACCESS CONTROLS FOR MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS - A media client stores separate account settings for multiple user accounts, where each of the separate user accounts includes access time limits for use of devices associated with the media client. The media client also receives a login request for one of the user accounts, and retrieves, based on account settings for the active account, interactive content for the active account. The media client presents to a user of the active account the interactive content and receives user input responding to the interactive content. The media client adjusts the access time limits for the devices, based on the user input and the account settings for the active account, and monitors usage time of the devices by the user of the active account. The media client blocks access to one of the devices when a monitored usage time exceeds the adjusted access time limit for the corresponding device. | 09-29-2011 |
20110244439 | Testing System and Method for Mobile Devices - A system and method for creating and administering tests on a mobile wireless device are provided, comprising a server containing a plurality of question items in predetermined subject matter areas. A teacher having with a mobile wireless device and teacher access credentials to the server creates and administers a test containing selected question items for selected students. Each student having a mobile wireless device and student access credentials to the server provides responses to the question items on the test as administered by the teacher. After taking the test, the student transmits the student's responses to the server. Teachers and other authorized users can then assess the student's performance on the test, along with other performance statistics provided in reports across a plurality of students' responses to various question items and tests. | 10-06-2011 |
20110256521 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUSTOMIZING LESSON PLANS - The present invention relates to a computer system that customizes lesson plans of students and reports the outcome of the same. In one example embodiment, a collection and aggregation module, coupled to a computer memory, collects current student record data of a plurality of students and aggregates the collected student record data over time and over various pluralities of students to generate a superset aggregate data. The student record data includes recent performance and progress data for each student. A curriculum customization module receives the superset aggregate data from the collection and aggregation module and customizes a current curriculum for a given student using the superset aggregate data. | 10-20-2011 |
20110275047 | Seeking Answers to Questions - A computer-implemented method of seeking answers to questions comprises receiving one or more questions from users seeking answers, maintaining an inventory of pending questions to be answered, and transmitting a question from the pending question inventory to a network location determined to be topically relevant to the transmitted question based on the content of the network location. | 11-10-2011 |
20110281253 | COMPUTER-AIDED LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION - A computer-aided learning system with adaptive optimization is disclosed. The system may comprise a storage module configured for storing learning data; a man-machine interface configured for providing the learning data to at least one learner; an information collection module configured for tracking and recording an interactive learning process; a learning process analysis module configured for receiving the interactional learning process provided by the information collection module, the learning process analysis module further configured for analyzing the interactional learning process and forming a control signal; and a learning strategy generation module configured for receiving the control signal from the learning process analysis module, the learning strategy generation module further configured for generating a learning strategy signal based on the control signal; wherein the man-machine interface is configured to provide the learning data to the at least one learner based on the learning strategy signal. | 11-17-2011 |
20110287400 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTER BASED TESTING USING CACHE AND CACHEABLE OBJECTS TO EXPAND FUNCTIONALITY OF A TEST DRIVER APPLICATION - A system and method for computer-based testing includes a test driver that controls delivery of a computer-based test to one or more test candidates and that controls caching of test components during delivery of the test. The system includes various monitoring components, including monitoring of candidate progress, candidate performance, network bandwidth, network latency and server response, during delivery of the test and adjusting the source of the test components or the volume of the test components being cached for delivery of the test. Based upon this monitoring of the system, for example, if network communication failure is detected, the test candidate is able to continue computer-based testing while connectivity is being reestablished. | 11-24-2011 |
20110300525 | Workload Management System - A system and method designed to enable schools to proactively manage and analyze a student's workload. The workload management system helps identify, for each individual student, workload hotspots early and helps teachers and administrators in schools take action to mitigate the stress that such workload hotspots create. | 12-08-2011 |
20110300526 | Systems And Methods For Facilitating Classroom Interaction - In one embodiment, facilitating classroom interaction includes sending a message containing a question to be answered from a mobile device located within a classroom at which a class is being taught, receiving the message with a central server and identifying the class to which the message pertains, and displaying the question on a display device located within the classroom. | 12-08-2011 |
20110306029 | ONLINE BASED STUDENT PEER MENTORING PROGRAM - A method and system for offering an on-line based student peer mentoring program sponsored by at least one school and operated by at least one student apprentice and at least one student mentor, using a social networking website which facilitates a student participant to access a plurality of training web link modules to first be trained by a student peer mentor of more advanced training, and then to train at least one student peer protégé of less advanced training. The goal is for the student participant to become a mentor and then an apprentice for at least one business owner, and for the student apprentice to establish a relationship with another school to join the on-line based student peer mentoring program. The plurality of training web link modules includes instruction and training relating to academic curriculum, a literacy program and a social curriculum. | 12-15-2011 |
20110318723 | Studying system and method with virtual cards - The studying system and studying method using virtual card are described. The present invention comprises: (1) a course scheduling feature that divides study courses into a plurality of study sessions considering the learning situations of the user, selects and assigns virtual flash cards to such study sessions, and determines the sequence of such virtual flash cards contained in such study sessions; (2) a session management feature that carries out such study sessions by displaying the front side of the virtual flash cards contained in such study sessions and by allowing the users to enter answers to such virtual flash cards; and (3) an entry management feature that provides an interface for users to enter such answers. The present invention provides a distinct studying method by dividing a study course into a plurality of study sessions, assigning virtual flash card decks to appropriate such study sessions and determining the order of such virtual flash cards, displaying the front side of such virtual flash cards to the user, and allowing the user to enter the answer for each virtual flash card. The invention maximizes learning the benefits of users by providing and displaying virtual flash cards in the order that best suits the users' situations. | 12-29-2011 |
20110318724 | EQUATION-BASED ASSESSMENT GRADING METHOD AND PARTICIPANT RESPONSE SYSTEM EMPLOYING SAME - A computerized assessment grading method comprises creating a syntax tree for a received equation-based response to at least one assessment question and a syntax tree for at least one solution to the at least one question, comparing the syntax trees, and grading the response based on the results of the comparison. | 12-29-2011 |
20120021398 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING UNAUTHORIZED COLLABORATION ON EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENTS - A collaboration detection system and a method for detecting collaboration amongst a class of two or more students in answering a plurality of problems of an assessment administered to the students are provided. The system includes a tangible processor and a memory with instructions to be executed by the tangible processor. The processor executes the instructions for accessing granular assessment data associated with each student. The granular assessment data includes an independent determination of correctness of the answer submitted by the student for each respective problem of the plurality of problems of the assessment. The processor then executes the instructions for determining for each combination of students of the class of students the number of problems for which it was determined that the same problem was answered incorrectly by all of the students of the combination of students. | 01-26-2012 |
20120040325 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ONLINE LEARNING WITH CUSTOMIZED ANSWER EXPLANATIONS BASED ON STUDENT RESPONSES - The online learning system provides customized answer explanations based upon a user's incorrect response to a multiple choice question. The explanations identify trick answers and how to avoid them, incorrect assumptions, and/or incorrect calculations that caused the student to reach the incorrect solution. The system also tracks the user's progress and provides customized feedback based on measurable aspects of the user's progress. Course material is provided by the system using a video game and/or social gaming type of user interface that fosters competition to motivate students and also uses incentives such as experience points, levels of mastery, and the ability to earn virtual goods or unlock challenges as the user progresses. | 02-16-2012 |
20120040326 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION AND ASSESSMENT - This application provides methods and systems for optimizing individualized instruction and assessment. In one embodiment a system for optimizing individualized instruction and assessment is provided. The system includes a user base component, a knowledge base component, a standards base component and an inference engine module. The user base component contains an electronic student record data for an individual. The knowledge base component contains knowledge management data. The standards base component contains curriculum data and criteria data. The inference engine module uses the electronic student record of the individual, knowledge management data and curriculum data and criteria data to create an individualized lesson plan for the individual. | 02-16-2012 |
20120064500 | INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING SYSTEM, METHODS, AND APPARATUS - A system, methods, and apparatus for instruction and training are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a plurality of instructional videos and actual performance videos relating to a plurality of techniques are stored and organized according to technique. A user interface displays a first video and a dynamic link. A user may view the first video on a first technique, which is an instructional video or an actual performance video. If the user has viewed an instructional video, the user may select and access the dynamic link to view a second video related to the first technique, which is an actual performance video. If the user has viewed an actual performance video, the user may select and access the dynamic link to view a second video related to the first technique, which is an instructional video. | 03-15-2012 |
20120082973 | INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM PROVIDING MULTIDIRECTIONAL AND SELF-DIRECTED SCRIPTED LEARNING - The present invention discloses an interactive virtual classroom for scripted self-directed learning and education. While self-directed learning is often unidirectional or bidirectional, this application features a multi-directional learning approach. The multidirectional approach involves interaction with virtual classmates that are programmed with artificial intelligence (AI). Interaction can be between the instructor and the user student, the user student and the AI students, the instructor and the AI students, between the AI students. The content provided within the classroom is scripted and customized depending on what is being taught. | 04-05-2012 |
20120088217 | Client-server based system and method for test and homework management - A system and method for computer-aided test and homework management in client-server architecture comprises server software for a teacher to create tests and homework, and client software for students to take tests and complete homework assignments. The teacher uses the server software to correct the set-answers and multiple choices automatically. For creative responses in a free-style text format, matching pre-defined key words in the response is used for auto-grading, but can be overridden manually by the teacher. Keywords in the response are highlighted to help the teacher in the grading process. The client software provides a secure way to take a test by displaying a black background behind the window to block possible cheating utensils. The client software is also operable to administer testing and homework offline, as it downloads and saves test questions and homework assignments in the client data repository, which allows students to review all the tests and homework assignments previously taken. | 04-12-2012 |
20120088218 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PENALTY DATA COMPILATION, ANALYSIS AND REPORT GENERATION - The present invention relates generally to a system and method for reviewing and evaluating performance. In particular, the present invention relates to a system, method, and computer program produce for reviewing and evaluating performances of an official or group of officials at an event or events. Even more specifically, according to embodiments of the present invention, the system and method can involve reviewing and evaluating an official or group of official's performance during a sporting event or events, such as a football game or games or a basketball game or games. | 04-12-2012 |
20120100519 | TRAINING SYSTEM - A method for training involves maintaining a plurality of details to be tested; maintaining group definitions which define a plurality of groups associated with two or more of the details; determining a test detail; outputting to a user a question to which the test detail is a correct answer; inputting from the user an answer to the question; determining whether the answer comprises more than one parts. If yes: determining other details belonging to a common group with the test detail; determining which if any of the test detail and of the other details match the parts of the answer and considering such details as correctly answered details; and storing for each correctly answered detail an indication of a correct answer. If the answer comprises no more than one part, then: determining if the answer correctly matches the test detail; and if yes, storing an indication of a correct answer. | 04-26-2012 |
20120107788 | Rhythmic learning method - The current invention offers experiences that might be called “simulated music reading.” This curriculum delivery invention comprises a computer-operated instructional delivery system displaying pre-formatted curriculum content accompanied by animations that elicit rhythmic participation. The computer-controlled display (computer monitor, television, or projection screen) provides access to start/stop and tempo controls. The display also reveals cursors, arrows, shadings, and other animated features applied to curriculum material, ensuring that students perceive a prescribed rhythm and can give a choral response. Whether reciting, interpreting, identifying, or supplying missing content elements, the students' creation of and involvement in a rhythmic context is a key element of the invention's efficacy. In summary, the invention presents curriculum content while encouraging rhythmic brain experiences that are known to develop general creativity and enhance performance abilities in reading, math, geometry, music, and other high demand cerebral challenges. | 05-03-2012 |
20120122068 | ONLINE TEST PROCTORING INTERFACE WITH TEST TAKER ICON AND MULTIPLE PANES - An aspect of the present invention relates to an online test platform adapted to facilitate the development, delivery, and management of educational tests with interactive participation by students, teachers, proctors, and administrators even when some or all of them are remotely located. The platform may include administrator interfaces, test proctor interfaces, and test taker (e.g. student) interfaces to allow each participant to view, navigate, and interact with aspects of the online test platform that are intended to meet their needs. | 05-17-2012 |
20120141967 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE WORKSHEETS - A system and a method for generating individualized academic worksheets are provided. The method includes accessing a database of problems and student data relating to at least one student, including evaluation data associated with practice worksheets that were previously administered to the students. The method further includes selecting problems from the database using the evaluation data for each student and generating an individualized practice worksheet file including the selected problems. Each practice worksheet file includes instructions for printing a presentation of each problem and at least one evaluation area. The method further includes updating the evaluation data, wherein after a printed copy of a practice worksheet file is administered to the student, the evaluation areas of the printed copy are marked with evaluation marks by a human evaluator in accordance with the human evaluator's evaluation, and the updated evaluation data is based on the evaluation marks. | 06-07-2012 |
20120141968 | Evaluation Assistant for Online Discussion - Discussion evaluation may be provided. First, an assignment page including an evaluation link may be displayed and a user initiated input corresponding to the evaluation link may be received. Next, an evaluation view may be displayed in response to the received user initiated input. The displayed evaluation view may comprise an evaluation assistant data section and a raw discussion data section. Evaluation data may then be received in response to the displayed evaluation view. | 06-07-2012 |
20120156667 | STRUCTURE AND ADAPTIVE APPARATUS FOR ONLINE EDUCATIONAL LEARNING THROUGH TRUSTED MASS COLLABORATION - A structure and adaptive apparatus for online education learning through trusted mass collaboration. An education server is communicatively coupled to one or more computing devices over a network to provide an online education service. The online education service provides a knowledge structure of K-Courses, K-Lessons, and K-Bits. K-Courses are comprised of more than one K-Lesson. K-Lessons are comprised of more than one K-Bit. Each K-Bit is associated with a plurality of alternative K-Bits to be used as parallel views of the same topic as the associated K-Bit to support student-centric learning. When a student encounters a K-Bit that the student does not understand, one or more alternative K-Bits used as parallel views of the same topic as the associated K-Bit are presented to the student until the student is able to master the topic of the associated K-Bit. The alternative K-Bits used as parallel views of the same topic as the associated K-Bit are sorted based on the student's learning style using a combination of highly adaptive processes. | 06-21-2012 |
20120164619 | Educational Assessment System and Associated Methods - A system and method are provided for allowing a member of an audience to interact with a presenter in an organizational environment by accessing network software as a service in a browser or native application software operable with a processor. Such a system and method improves classroom participation and assessing effectiveness of presentation. The system includes software elements that are useable by accessing the cloud network or as may be installable on a local processor and on a communication device, which can comprise a computer, a mobile phone, or a hand held device in general. Presenter and audience member interfaces are provided for composing, posing, and answering questions, participating in a class blog, and receiving real-time data on class comprehension of student learning objectives. | 06-28-2012 |
20120164620 | RECOMMENDING COMPETITIVE LEARNING OBJECTS - A method and apparatus for competitive learning objects in a learning environment is provided. Based on the success that a student has with a particular learning item, a learning recommendation is generated for another student. | 06-28-2012 |
20120171655 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ACTION PLANS IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT FOR PARTICIPANTS IN AN INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE - In an instructional course, students learn various tools, techniques, and lessons that may be applicable to the students' projects. Based on the various tools, techniques, and lessons presented in the instructional course, each student develops one or more action plans after consulting the student's supervisor. The one or more action plans are entered into an action plan system that keeps track of progress and/or updates on the one or more action plans by the student. The action plan system sends out one or more electronic notifications to the students and their supervisors so that the students and/or supervisors can complete one or more surveys and enter updates on the one or more action plans. The entered updates on the one or more action plans can be used to generate various reports on the status of the one or more action plans. | 07-05-2012 |
20120178072 | PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method of psychometric testing of a plurality of candidates for a position, the method comprising the steps of: specifying at least one psychometric test based upon a definition of the position, the psychometric test having a plurality of versions, each version having a corresponding plurality of items; registering each of the candidates; assembling a plurality of candidate tests corresponding to the plurality of candidates, each candidate test assembled from the plurality of versions, with each candidate test being substantially unique from other candidate tests; and administering the respective candidate tests to each of the candidates and to determine test results therefrom. | 07-12-2012 |
20120196263 | INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE - An interactive educational device and method that provides students with activity modes in the form of instruction and exercises to be performed at a plurality of individual work stations. The invention tracks and provides information that is useful to an instructor in determining students' focus and progress. The information provided to the instructor may include, the element of the activity mode of the device the student is currently using, how long the student has been in a particular mode, and how many times the student has attempted a particular element of an activity mode. The information for each student may be updated in real time, so that at any given moment the instructor may be informed as to the student's particular activity. A “look back” for any period of time may be obtained by the instructor. The instructor receives alerts for particular events. The student may report a need for assistance, and student details may be provided to the instructor. | 08-02-2012 |
20120196264 | SOP Training Simulation Method and System - An SOP training simulation method includes the steps of: executing a predetermined simulation file to display a file page on a screen display unit; utilizing an input unit with a first operation mode to input and directly preset first procedure data of predetermined training simulation; utilizing the input unit with a second operation mode to input second procedure data of response simulation on the file page; comparing the first procedure data with the second procedure data to evaluate the training simulation. The SOP training simulation system includes a control unit to execute the above steps. | 08-02-2012 |
20120202185 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN AN EDUCATIONAL SETTING - A communication network includes an instructor wireless communication device and a plurality of student wireless communication devices, which may be conventional smartphones. The student devices do not communicate with the wireless service provider, but communicate with the instructor device in the classroom via a short-range communication network established between the student devices and the instructor device directly or via an access point. In one embodiment, communication with the cellphone network service provider is cut off by disabling the network transceiver in each student device. The instructor device can exchange question and answer data with the student devices. The system can be configured to provide security in student responses to prevent potential cheating. Student answers may be automatically collected, collated, and graded. The answers are accompanied by an ID that uniquely identifies each student. The system may further provide for automatic classroom attendance and participation by logging nonresponsive student devices. | 08-09-2012 |
20120208164 | WEB BROWSER BASED TEST CREATION AND ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM - A system for creating and administering a computer-based test broadly comprises a test taker component and an administrative component. The test taker component may be executed in a web browser and configured to allow a test taker to request a test, to submit responses to questions of the test, and to view the submitted responses and the correct answers after the test is complete. The administrative component may also be executed in a web browser and configured to allow an administrative user to create the test and to view the responses to questions of the test as the responses are submitted from the test takers. | 08-16-2012 |
20120208165 | Indicator of Satisfaction - The invention relates to a method for measuring personal satisfaction by means of a device for giving feedback, which comprises an internal power source and at least two selector switches for giving feedback, indicating the type of the feedback, a memory for storing feedback data, and a data transmission module for transmitting the feedback data. The method comprises: presenting the subject for the feedback, receiving feedback from at least one person giving feedback, on the basis of the selection of a selector switch, storing the data on the feedback in the memory of the device for giving feedback, and transmitting the feedback data at a predetermined time from the device for giving feedback to a server in a wireless manner. The invention also relates to a device for giving feedback and a data processing system to be used in the method. | 08-16-2012 |
20120225415 | LEARNING CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM - A learning content delivery system is provided that includes a network, a plurality of remotely stored content delivery applications each having learning content, one or more user devices, and a platform. The platform has an application framework that allows the one or more user devices to access the remotely stored applications and learning content via the network. The applications can include at least two platform specific applications, which are developed on a common application programming interface. The platform can dynamically sense one or more attributes of each user device and to customize presentation of the learning content from the platform specific applications for the user device. The application framework can provide two-way awareness between the platform and the platform specific applications. | 09-06-2012 |
20120231434 | In-Desk Tablet PC and Classroom Automation System - An open-systems classroom information technology automation solution that allows a teacher to control features and content on multiple student workstations (an in-desk Tablet PC) through a wireless network and server solution, including hardware, software and network subsystems. The custom product components include a compact self contained in-desk or in-table Tablet PC with input/output port extender. The custom software utilities and applications allow a teacher console to control access to various components and commercially available applications on the student workstations (an in-desk Tablet PC). Other custom software utilities allow the administrator to easily configure student workstations (an in-desk Tablet PC) making add/change/deletes quick and simple. | 09-13-2012 |
20120231435 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EDUCATION INCLUDING COMMUNITY-SOURCED DATA AND COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS - A system and method for education including community-sourced data and community interactions. The method can include registering a plurality of users in a database, presenting educational material to a user of the plurality of users, recording the performance of the user in regards to the educational material, collecting personal statistics regarding the performance of the user, compiling the personal statistics for the plurality of users to generate community statistics regarding the performance of the plurality of users, and comparing the personal statistics of a user to the community statistics. | 09-13-2012 |
20120231436 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL CONTENT THROUGH GAMING OVER A NETWORK - A method of distributing educational content over a network is disclosed. Educational content is divided into topics and the topics are split into smaller educational units. Professionals reviewing the material for accreditation purposes choose particular units to study and are subject to minimum and maximum time parameters. The partitioning of educational topics allows advertisers to deliver episodic advertising over an extended time period. | 09-13-2012 |
20120231437 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLABORATIVE ON-LINE LEARNING MANAGEMENT WITH EDUCATIONAL NETWORKING - Online course and learning material management system and methods are provided where students, instructors, publishers, and industry partners utilize the disclosed systems' databases and networking features to interact and improve learning outcome. The system furthermore allows for networking among students, instructors, publishers, software vendors, and prospective employers. | 09-13-2012 |
20120231438 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING AND NETWORKING IN LEARNING SYSTEMS - Online course and learning material management system and methods are provided where students, instructors, publishers, administrators, publishers, software vendors, and industry partners utilize the disclosed systems' databases and networking features to interact, to network, to improve learning outcome, and to exchange information elements. The system furthermore allows for networking among different user categories based on users' roles, professional profiles, and professional interests. | 09-13-2012 |
20120237917 | Student Specific Information System - A system for sharing student-specific information comprises of a server, a client, in communication with the server, and a student-specific application. The application comprises a school portal, user portal, activity portal and a system portal for remotely sharing student-specific data with the server, to facilitate communication between a user and selected school. | 09-20-2012 |
20120251992 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF TEACHING THROUGH ANALYSIS USING A VIRTUAL TEACHING DEVICE - A learning support method and system for a classroom includes a monitoring device configured to capture real-time participant events and stimuli in a learning environment. The participant events include classroom and collaboration-oriented input. A database is configured to store and organize a-priori skills of a typical student and a-priori knowledge a participating student. A set of cognitive model profiles are stored in system memory representing typical student behaviors and participant student behaviors with access to the captured participant events, the stimuli and the a-priori knowledge and skills. An interaction manager is configured to be responsive to the participant events and stimuli to perform interactive tasks during a class session. The interactive tasks may include posing a question, supplementing a lecture, tracking progress and rating teacher performance. | 10-04-2012 |
20120264099 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK-BASED TUTORING - A computer-based online interactive educational system and method are described herein, wherein the system comprises a first and second network-connected computers for providing access to the system for a student and a tutor, a database server for storing data pertaining to the student and tutor, a system software, a multi-video web-based interlace and a plurality of communication tools to facilitate instant discussion between the student and tutor over a specific learning subject. | 10-18-2012 |
20120264100 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCTORING A TEST BY ACTING ON UNIVERSAL CONTROLS AFFECTING ALL TEST TAKERS - An aspect of the present invention relates to an online test platform adapted to facilitate the development, delivery, and management of educational tests with interactive participation by students, teachers, proctors, and administrators even when some or all of them are remotely located. The platform may include administrator interfaces, test proctor interfaces, and test taker (e.g. student) interfaces to allow each participant to view, navigate, and interact with aspects of the online test platform that are intended to meet their needs. | 10-18-2012 |
20120276514 | EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ASSESSMENT USING CURRICULUM PROGRESSION PATHWAY ANALYSIS - A curriculum progression pathway analysis assesses an educational program having multiple activities defining multiple learner tracks by organizing the learners into groups based on the learner tracks and, for each learner group, calculating a baseline average score, a post-activity average score, and statistical differences between the baseline average score and the post-activity average scores. Any significant statistical differences are identified, and a report may be generated describing statistical conclusions and inferences. The invention can further provide a domain-based learner analysis for curriculum, a domain-based learner analysis for activities, and a learner retention analysis. In an application for continuing medical education the performance index test includes a clinical vignette, a set of statements which are moved to either a best practices column or a not best practices column, and an indicator for an allowable number of moves to achieve a perfect score. | 11-01-2012 |
20120276515 | USER ANSWER COLLECTION SERVER, USER ANSWER COLLECTION SYSTEM, BROADCAST RECEPTION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD | 11-01-2012 |
20120288841 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CLUSTERING STUDENTS BASED ON THEIR PERFORMANCE - Methods and systems of clustering a plurality of students are disclosed. A computing device may receive assessment data for each of a plurality of students. The assessment data includes information pertaining to each of a plurality of questions in an assessment. The computing device may also receive a number of clusters into which to organize the plurality of students. The computing device may determine a similarity value between each pair of students in the plurality of students based on the assessment data associated with each student. The computing device may organize the plurality of students into the number of clusters based on the similarity values. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288842 | Personalized Course Management System - Systems and methods for providing online courses are provided. A student seeking a higher education degree may enroll in courses, select, and control the timing and order of classes for a given program. Every course in a given program is available simultaneously. The courses are provided through a web-based instructional platform. Students can participate in one or more courses within one week of enrollment. A professor is assigned to the course. A professor can instruct more students and teach multiple courses simultaneously or in parallel, as opposed to the traditional classroom model. A student can personalize their enrollment and participate in the courses or progress through lessons of a course electronically through the web-based instructional platform via a software application on the smartphone, on their laptop and/or through an Internet browser at a particular website. | 11-15-2012 |
20120288843 | INTERACTIVE LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An interactive teaching and learning system and method is presented. In one aspect, the interactive teaching and learning system is a web-based cloud application in the form of a course design, teaching, learning and communication portal. | 11-15-2012 |
20120295242 | COMPUTER-BASED ACTIVE TEACHING - The discussion relates to actively teaching a classification boundary. One implementation can obtain examples and a boundary associated with an operational space. This implementation can choose an active teaching strategy to teach the boundary to a user as a classification task. It can select an individual example for presentation to the user utilizing the active teaching strategy. The implementation can receive a user response to the example and evaluate the active teaching strategy in light of the user response. | 11-22-2012 |
20120301860 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A correction unit corrects parameters of an ensemble learner having a plurality of weak learners that receive characteristic amounts extracted from an input image and output weak hypotheses indicating whether or not a predetermined target is reflected in the input image using correction information. A discrimination processing unit integrates the weak hypotheses output from the weak learners with respect to the characteristic amounts using the ensemble learner of which the parameters are corrected and discriminates whether or not the target is reflected in the input image based on an integrated value of the weak hypotheses. The correction information is calculated based on a light source illuminating the target in a correction information calculation unit | 11-29-2012 |
20120301861 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EDUCATION INCLUDING COMMUNITY-SOURCED DATA AND COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS - A system and method for education including community-sourced data and community interactions. The method can include registering a plurality of users in a database, presenting educational material to a user of the plurality of users, recording the performance of the user in regards to the educational material, collecting personal statistics regarding the performance of the user, compiling the personal statistics for the plurality of users to generate community statistics regarding the performance of the plurality of users, comparing the personal statistics of a user to the community statistics or to a subset thereof, collecting personal information from each user of the plurality of users, subdividing the plurality of users into a plurality of communities based on the personal information of each user, facilitating interactions between the users within a community of the plurality of communities, and generating a credibility score for each user within the community. | 11-29-2012 |
20120301862 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT - A method for providing continuing education involves editing an entertainment program that contains relevant facts about a particular subject. The program is accessible over the internet to participants, who are quizzed periodically during the program based on the facts. The program continues when the correct answers are input. Once the program is completed, a completion certificate is sent to the participants. | 11-29-2012 |
20120315616 | E-LEARNING METHOD AND SYSTEM - A system for delivering e-learning in ways that support many of the teaching and learning practices of interactive classroom training through electronic interactions. In a first aspect, an embodiment provides Dynamic Learning Groups, i.e., peer groups of students who will have social learning interactions as they go through a course. These groups can be used to provide fine-grained access control to student-generated content. In a second aspect, an embodiment provides Dynamic Mentor Groups which enable mentoring (i.e., “teaching”) interactions between students and defined sets of mentors or teachers. In a third aspect, an embodiment provides Structured Notes Management which allows users to make notes in situ as they go through a course, and have those notes presented back to them in structured forms that summarize their notes in a graphical presentation that both captures their notes and reinforces the key learnings of the course. | 12-13-2012 |
20120329029 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED TEACHING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A computer implemented method for teaching subject matter includes the steps of generating an assignment including one or more questions, providing the assignment to one or more students, recording a final answer to each of the one or more questions and one or more steps taken to reach the final answer, and grading the assignment. A computer implemented system of teaching subject matter to one or more students includes an assignment generating station operable to generate an assignment including one or more questions, a testing station operable to administer the assignment to one or more students and record an answer to each of the one or more questions and steps taken to reach the answer, and a grading station operable to grade the answer and steps taken to reach the answer. | 12-27-2012 |
20120329030 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT - A system and method of knowledge assessment provides for a computer-executable program capable of generating a user's knowledge profile based on answers to queries posed to the user via a communication network. The user's knowledge profile can be used for creating a detail curriculum in a specific academic subject for the user to pursue or for comparing with the knowledge profile of one or more other users. The detail curriculum, or knowledge path, arranges the subjects to be learned in a hierarchical manner so that the user can determine which subject categories must be mastered before moving to other categories and concepts. | 12-27-2012 |
20130004929 | EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING LEARNING SESSIONS BASED ON GEO-LOCATION INFORMATION - A location based system for conducting learning sessions comprises a geolocation server that is configured to access location information for students and/or teachers. Geo-location information as used herein comprises student or teacher location information or relative proximity of students to each other, teacher to students as well as teacher or students relative to a place of interest. An enrollment module is configured to enroll the students in courses that are taught by teachers. A learning session management module is configured to manage learning sessions associated with the courses based on student location information and/or teacher location information. | 01-03-2013 |
20130004930 | Learner Interaction Monitoring System - The Learner Interaction Monitoring Systems (LiMS) is a web-based application that can interface with any web-based course delivery platform to transform the online learning environment into an active observer of learner engagement. The LiMS ‘event capture model’ collects detailed real-time data on learner behavior in self-directed online learning environments, and interprets these data by drawing on behavioral research. The LiMS offers education and training managers in corporate contexts a valuable tool for the evaluation of learner performance and course design. By allowing more detailed demonstration of ROI in education and training, LiMS allows managers to make the case for web based courseware that reflects appropriate and evidence-based instructional design, rather than budgetary constraints. | 01-03-2013 |
20130011821 | COURSE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for assisting a student or other user to identify courses that best fit the student's or user's talents and program of study. Ratings can be shown as a number of stars, a number, a letter, or similar indicator. The system combines three criteria to produce each list of courses that it recommends: courses that apply directly to the student's program of study, courses that are the most central to the university curriculum (centrality ranking), and courses that the model predicts the student will achieve the best grades in (grade prediction). The recommended course list may be displayed in a web-based interface that allows each student to find information on his/her recommended course curricula and requirements, as well as class availability in upcoming semesters. Majors or concentrations can also be evaluated and recommended. | 01-10-2013 |
20130034839 | Computer Method And System Determining What Learning Elements Are Most Effective - Education is a very important topic and educators are constantly attempting to improve manners in which education is provided to student. However, Educators often disagree as to the best techniques for educating students. Further, as technology is increasing the manner in which education is performed must keep up and take advantage of the current and anticipated developments in technology. A problem that is faced by Educators is that there is no ability to easily test and implement techniques of educations. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for conducting a controlled experiment to compare techniques of conveying information. The embodiments facilitate administration of the controlled experiment to a plurality of users via an online user interface. Using results of the controlled experiment, the embodiments determine a relative effectiveness of a technique for conveying information to at least one user of the plurality of users. | 02-07-2013 |
20130040277 | Automatic Determination of User Alignments and Recommendations for Electronic Resources - Various implementations for automatically determining user alignments and recommendations for electronic resources are described. One example implementation includes an assessment module, an alignment module, and a recommender. The assessment module determines performance levels of two or more users of an educational platform. The alignment module determines an alignment between the two or more users of the educational platform based on the performance levels of the two or more users. The recommender generates a recommendation for a social graph connection between the two or more users in a social graph based on the alignment. | 02-14-2013 |
20130052628 | SYSTEM FOR CO-CLUSTERING OF STUDENT ASSESSMENT DATA - A system and method for making use of formative assessment data collected is disclosed that identifies clusters of students and concurrently determines the characteristics of the student clusters. A decomposition of the data is performed with spectral theories of graphs and fuzzy logic algorithms to identify the clusters of students, clusters of assessment data and relationships between them. An actionable output is presented to teachers for the evaluation of educational progress. | 02-28-2013 |
20130052629 | CONTENT CREATION IN AN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT - A collaborative learning service allows for a participant to create and share content for discussion with other participants in an online learning environment. Tagged content along with descriptive content regarding the tagged content is received from a participant. The content may be associated with a particular topic and/or forum. The content is published into a forum for discussion amongst participants. Following the publishing of the content to the online learning environment, participants, such as educators and students, may discuss, interact, and collaborate with one another regarding the content. The content may be stored in a library of topics for subsequent retrieval by any participant namely an educator. | 02-28-2013 |
20130065214 | Educational Assessment Support Systems And Methods Associated Methods - A system and method assess educational development of a child. Indication of accomplishment by the child of a plurality of tests is entered into the system. A report is generated to indicate educational areas of concern and strength for the child. | 03-14-2013 |
20130065215 | Education Method - An education system for educating one or more students wherein the student is presented with a setting and multiple responses. In the application of the system, one or more students provide a verbal response in accord with one of the multiple responses. The student's response is then incorporated into a dialog which is returned to the student. | 03-14-2013 |
20130071830 | ACTIVITY BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARGING STUDENT ACCOUNTS - A system for charging one or more learning session to one or more student accounts comprises an online learning system having one or more nodes that creates one or more online learning sessions over one or more communications channels between one or more students and corresponding teachers. An enrollment node receives student enrollment information. A scheduling node schedules the online learning session. A databases the stores information relating to one or more one or more charge criterion information for charging the one or more learning sessions to the one or more student accounts based on communications channel activity. An activity node receives communications channel activity information associated with one or more learning sessions, and an accounting node associates a charge information for a learning session to the student account based on the channel activity information and one or more charge criterion information. The charge information for the learning session is associated with the student account based on a determination of whether one or more communications channel activity associated with the learning session satisfy the one or more charge criterion. | 03-21-2013 |
20130084553 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM - In an information providing system, a transmitter/receiver of an information providing device serves as a relay station to allow wireless data transmission and reception between the information providing device and a tablet and between the information providing device and each of response clickers provided for individual responders in audience. The information providing device wirelessly receives data from the tablet and from each individual response clicker in a specified time interval of data transmission after transmission of a transmission approval. The information providing device transmits the transmission approval to a transmitter/receiver of the tablet at a higher frequency than a frequency of transmitting the transmission approval to a transmitter/receiver of each of the response clickers. This effectively increases accumulation of the time interval of data transmission from the tablet to the information providing device. | 04-04-2013 |
20130089848 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING LEARNING COURSES VIA A SERVICE CENTER SUPPORTING A VARIETY OF PRODUCTS - A service center receives a request from a remote device for accessing a learning course describing operations of a product that has been registered with the service center. In response to the request, a media stream representing the learning course is transmitted to the remote device to allow a user of the remote device to navigate the learning course, without requiring the user to directly access a training facility of a product provider associated with the registered product. User interaction with the learning course is tracked and analyzed to generate an analysis result, where the analysis result is utilized to generate or identify a subsequent learning course specifically tailored to the user. The analysis result is transmitted to the product provider to allow the product provider for the purpose of determining customer satisfaction. | 04-11-2013 |
20130109002 | EDUCATIONAL VIRTUAL SPACE | 05-02-2013 |
20130115585 | LANGUAGE-BASED COMPUTER GENERATED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL - A learning system includes a plurality of teacher and student stations for holding one or more learning sessions between a teacher and one or more students. A server serves instructional material for creating a learning environment during the learning session, and a database stores at least one of teacher and student attributes that relate to language ability. In the present invention, the instructional material is a computer generated instructional material that is produced based on the language ability of the student or the teacher. | 05-09-2013 |
20130122481 | System and Devices for Providing Real-Time Feedback on Student Test Performance and Test Quality - System and devices for providing real-time feedback on student test performance and test quality of a test being administered. The methods and devices operate in a classroom network having a plurality of student devices configured to receive answers to test questions entered on the student devices and transmit in real-time the answers, and a teacher console communicatively coupled to the student devices and configured, for each answer, to receive in real-time the answer, update in real-time, using the answer, a test-taking metric and display in real-time an updated test-taking chart generated using the updated test-taking metric. | 05-16-2013 |
20130130217 | E-LEARNING LESSON DELIVERY PLATFORM - Disclosed herein are e-learning lesson delivery platforms, products, programs, and methods comprising a digital processing device and a program that creates a lesson delivery server, wherein said server comprises: a plurality of learning activities, wherein said activities are organized according to an instructional plan designed to accomplish one or more educational objectives in at least one subject, wherein said plan identifies one or more activities for use in a guided environment and one or more activities for assignment as independent work; a module for displaying and providing access to said one or more activities in a guided environment; a module for assigning said one or more activities as independent work to one or more learners, wherein said module is only accessible by a mentor; and a module for displaying and providing access to activities assigned as independent work, wherein said module is accessible by a mentor or a learner. | 05-23-2013 |
20130137077 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING HIGH STAKE EXAMINATIONS USING INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM - The present invention relates to a system and method, which enables to conduct and management of high stake examinations online in a distributed mode. More specifically, the present invention provides an integrated technology platform for conducting both online and offline examinations in a secured manner. The technology platform provides end-to-end solutions, which covers online application, online hall ticket generation, online question bank authoring, secured question paper generation and online delivery, digital evaluation of hand written answer scripts, result processing and online publishing of the result and digital generation of mark sheets and degree certificates with a unique global access code (GAC) per certificate. | 05-30-2013 |
20130157244 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA ANALYSIS - Provided herein are systems, methods, and computer readable medium for entering, identifying, and aggregating data for analysis data in an electronic device, wherein the data are from a plurality of multi-participant surveys. | 06-20-2013 |
20130164725 | CLASSROOM RESPONSE SYSTEM - A classroom response system is disclosed, comprising a classroom response system (CRS) server, at least one instructor console, and at least one student console. The CRS server includes a plurality of software modules, including a runtime server, a master server, a simulator, a query editor, a report generator, a report editor, a seating chart tool, and a simulator. An optional secondary instructor console may be provided, for example for use by a instructor's assistant. In use, the instructor may use the CRS to keep track of attendance, pose questions to students, and receive answers, including open-ended answers. Students may also be allowed to evaluate one another's work. The instructor may display aggregated answers and other anonymous data. | 06-27-2013 |
20130183651 | SERVER, LEARNING TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND LEARNING CONTENT MANAGING METHOD - There is provided a server including a teaching material storage unit configured to store teaching material data, notebook templates, and link information indicating associations between the teaching material data and the notebook templates, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the teaching material data and the notebook templates associated with the teaching material data to a learning terminal apparatus according to a request from the learning terminal apparatus. The link information indicates association of a notebook template selected by a teacher for a designated page of the teaching material data. The notebook template is superimposed on another layer and displayed in the learning terminal apparatus. | 07-18-2013 |
20130189666 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL TIME TRACKING OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE BASED ON STATE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS - A system for providing feedback on educational standards within schools includes an interface providing access to a plurality of established educational standards which may be downloaded into a database of the system. A plurality of control modules enables a user to establish educational programs specifically associated with at least one of the downloaded established educational standards and receive feedback on student performance. Real time reports on student performance are provided responsive to the received feedback on student performance. | 07-25-2013 |
20130196306 | ON-LINE LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and an automated method of on-line learning for a student over an electronic communications network are provided. The method includes: electronically receiving, over the network, control information related to the student from one or more parents, teachers, or sponsors of the student; electronically distributing, over the network, on-line problems from a content database arranged by levels of difficulty and by categories to an electronic learning device of the student based on the control information; electronically receiving, over the network, answers to the problems from the learning device; electronically grading the answers to the problems; and rewarding an electronic allowance to the student based on the grading of the answers and the control information. The system includes a processor coupled to the network, and a non-volatile storage device coupled to the processor and including a content database and program instructions for performing the method when executed on the processor. | 08-01-2013 |
20130203036 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TO PERMIT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION - User equipment (UE) includes a short-range transceiver configured for communication with a plurality of wireless access points (APs) distributed throughout a venue. The individual UEs can communicate with the venue via the APs. The UEs can be configured to play interactive games with the venue, some of which may be displayed on the large screen in the venue and others that are displayed on the display of the UE. Data may be sent to the UEs individually or in groups. The data may be in the form of advertising, text messaging, images, video, multimedia, or the like. An array of UEs can receive portions of an overall image and function as individual pixels in a large display. | 08-08-2013 |
20130209982 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING AND ADMINISTERING A HIGH STAKES TEST - A method of administering a high stakes test includes providing a proctor device and providing a plurality of response devices, with each response device being associated with one of a plurality of subjects. The method also includes beginning a test and receiving a plurality of signals at the proctor device from the plurality of response devices. The method further includes determining that a first response device associated with a first subject is non-functional and temporarily suspending the test to associate a second response device with the first subject, then resuming the test. | 08-15-2013 |
20130216993 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PENALTY DATA COMPILATION, ANALYSIS AND REPORT GENERATION - The present invention relates generally to a system and method for reviewing and evaluating performance. In particular, the present invention relates to a system, method, and computer program produce for reviewing and evaluating performances of an official or group of officials at an event or events. Even more specifically, according to embodiments of the present invention, the system and method can involve reviewing and evaluating an official or group of official's performance during a sporting event or events, such as a football game or games or a basketball game or games. | 08-22-2013 |
20130224716 | CLOUD-BASED MULTIMEDIA TEACHING SYSTEM, DEVELOPMENT METHOD AND INTERACTION METHOD THEREOF - The present invention discloses a cloud-based multimedia teaching system, a development method and an interaction method thereof. In the present invention, a teacher produces a course in the Abode Flash format and uploads it from a client computer to a multimedia teaching system via the cloud; the multimedia teaching system communicates with a back-end server via a server framework in the Flash Remoting technology and establishes the course in the back-end server; the user interface of the multimedia teaching system contains a plurality of buttons linked to the courses. When a user clicks on a button of the user interface to select a course, the multimedia teaching system retrieves related data of the course from the back-end server via the server framework in the Flash Remoting technology and presents the data on the user interface thereof. | 08-29-2013 |
20130224717 | COMPUTERIZED LEARNING METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USE IN GROUP-LEARNING SETTINGS - A computer-implemented method enables guides to distribute learning items to a plurality of participants in a group learning setting in a controlled manner and to guide the participants through learning activities associated with the learning items. The guides and participants operate network-connected computing devices. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a structured collection of learning items arranged in a given order on a computing device operated by a guide, each learning item being associated with a learning activity to be performed on computing devices operated by the participants; and (b) electronically distributing learning items in the structured collection to computing devices operated by the participants successively in the given order based on instructions received from the guide. | 08-29-2013 |
20130224718 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION CONTENT TO USERS - Methods and system for organizing and providing informational content to users are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method may be implemented by a processor and include receiving user response to presentation of informational content associated with a first difficulty level. The method may also include associating a second difficulty level with the informational content based at least partly on the user response and the first difficulty level. Further, the method may include providing the informational content to a user based at least partly on the second difficulty level. | 08-29-2013 |
20130224719 | DIGITAL ASSIGNMENT ADMINISTRATION - A digitally administered assignment includes a workspace for a student and an internal automated grading code hidden from and not accessible by the student, the internal automated grading code configured to execute on the student's local computing device and to evaluate work performed by the student in the workspace. A method for digital assignment administration includes making an assignment with internal automated grading criteria available to a student and evaluating the assignment using the internal automated grading criteria on the student's local computing device. | 08-29-2013 |
20130230843 | INTERSCHOLASTIC, INTERDISCIPLINARY FORUM FOR USE BY STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS AT EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS - A topic selection process is provided for classrooms which allows instructors from different institutions to suggest topics, pushing the entire list of topics back out to the instructors for selection, and then creating topic forums for the topics that more than one instructor selects. | 09-05-2013 |
20130236877 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES VIA CLOUD MASSIVE ONLINE OPEN COURSE - Provided are methods and systems for delivering educational products and services via a cloud massive online open course. Users may access the cloud massive online open course at any point of time using a networked client device. Educational resources are stored on a remote server of a cloud provider and are delivered to users over a network using cloud computing services. Users are also provided with tools for interaction within a cloud education environment. Along the learning process users of the cloud massive online open course may communicate with each other within the cloud education environment and share educational content with each other. Users' learning activity may be graded through online assessment. | 09-12-2013 |
20130244218 | EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM EMPLOYING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS - An educational system consists of developing a virtual environment accessible by students and teachers through video game-like experiences. Each of the teachers and students is assigned an avatar that is uniquely controlled by the associated student or teacher. The students manipulate their avatars within the virtual environment, resolving issues, solving problems, and learning along the way. Each student has a student portfolio indicating the student's progress and deficiencies as assessed by the student's activities through the avatar in the virtual environment. A virtual learning core communicates with remote educational organizations having virtual environments and is in selective communication with each. The virtual learning core includes a database for receiving, storing, assessing and transferring data and student and teacher interface modules in interconnection with the database to allow communication among students and with a teacher within the virtual environments. | 09-19-2013 |
20130252221 | QUESTION GENERATION AND PRESENTATION - Presenting and generating questions are disclosed, including: presenting a first set of questions to a plurality of users; collecting a first set of answers pertaining to the first set of questions; generating a second set of questions pertaining to the first set of answers by the plurality of users; and determining influence scores corresponding to the plurality of users based at least in part on a second set of answers pertaining to the second set of questions. | 09-26-2013 |
20130252222 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME AND DISCRETE ANALYTICS FOR WEB-MEDIATED CONTENT AND EVENTS - During a presentation, a question is emitted over a network connection to a plurality of audience members, who utilize a computing device to respond. Client software for the audience members' heterogeneous computing devices may receive questions and upload answers. Answers from the audience are collected and aggregated, including optionally aggregating demographic information associated with each respondent and the answer of the respondent. Real-time analytics are provided to the presenter, which facilitates formulation or selection of further content and/or further questions. The timing of the questions can be synchronized with a content by linking the question to particular portions of the content, by tying the question to a particular slide or frame, by setting a length of time after which the question should be emitted, by offering a question on-demand, or some other method. A website maintains content, questions, user credentials of audience members, responses, and aggregated data, among other aspects. | 09-26-2013 |
20130252223 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCULCATING EXPLORATIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL LEARNING SKILLS AT GEOGRAPHICALLY APART LOCATIONS - The present invention relates to a system and method for enhancing innovative abilities by providing quality education and practical skills to the students and inculcating explorative and experimental learning skills in the students located at geographically apart locations comprising an administrative body | 09-26-2013 |
20130260352 | PROVIDING QUESTIONS TO ENTITY GROUPS - Entities that answer questions are organized into entity groups. An interface determines an answer to a question from one of the entity groups with a confidence that is greater than a second confidence threshold. To determine the answer, the interface performs an exploration phase where the interface asks the question to each of the entity groups. Entity groups that provide answers with a confidence that is greater than a first confidence threshold are selected for a subset. The interface enters an exploitation phase where the question is asked of the entity groups in the subset. If an answer is determined with a confidence that is greater than the second confidence threshold, then the answer is provided. If no answer is determined before a duration of time expires, then the interface enters a rollback phase where all of the entity groups are considered. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260353 | RESPONSE SUPPORT SERVER, RESPONSE SUPPORT SYSTEM, RESPONSE SUPPORT METHOD - A response support server is for providing response support to a response terminal for an assignment that has been presented. The response support server includes an input status acquisition unit configured to acquire an input status in a response column for the assignment; a response support information generation unit configured to generate response support information to be displayed on the response terminal, based on the input status and an elapsed time after the assignment is presented; and a send unit configured to send the response support information to the response terminal. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260354 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING CONTENT OBJECTS PUBLISHED ON A COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM - Disclosed is a method and system for evaluating at least one content object received from at least one user through an input module in a collaborative platform. The system comprises an analyzing module, a publishing module, an evaluation module and a display module. The analyzing module is configured to detect whether the at least one content object is extraneous. The publishing module is configured to publish the at least one content object not detected as extraneous. After publishing, the evaluation module verifies whether the at least one content object or any other content object has been previously published by the at least one user. Based on the verification, the evaluation module selectively enables at least one other user to assign a preliminary score or a secondary score the at least one content object and to optionally mark the at least one content object assigned with the secondary score as ‘substantive’. | 10-03-2013 |
20130260355 | TEACHING AND LEARNING SYSTEM - A computer-implemented method includes generating a curriculum for a particular textual work, the curriculum including one or more of: video content; audio content; and a quiz; and associating the curriculum with the particular textual work. The curriculum may be obtained from a store and then associated with the work. A student obtains a particular textual work, the work having a curriculum associated therewith, and reads the particular textual work under control of the curriculum. | 10-03-2013 |
20130266921 | Student Response Replay with Flexible Data Organization and Representation Overlays - A method for operating a classroom network including a host computer and a plurality of digital devices communicatively coupled to the host computer is provided. The method includes receiving student responses by the host computer from the plurality of digital devices over a period of time, wherein the student responses are generated while performing a class activity on each digital device, storing the student responses as the student responses are received, and replaying a user selected portion of the stored student responses on the host computer, wherein the replayed student responses are displayed according to a first user specified analysis view. | 10-10-2013 |
20130266922 | Recommending Competitive Learning Objects - A method and apparatus for competitive learning objects in a learning environment is provided. Based on the success that a student has with a particular learning item, a learning recommendation is generated for another student. | 10-10-2013 |
20130273515 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATION OF LESSONS - A system for creating a lesson by a client of training material includes a computer that is operatively interfaced to storage, in which, a plurality of frames are stored. Each of the frames has a component of training. Software running on the computer provides a lesson generation tool. The software provides for searching the plurality of frames to create a subset of the frames that correspond to a search criteria. The software further provides for selection, by the client, of a set of desired frames from the subset of the frames and the software creates a lesson that includes the desired frames. | 10-17-2013 |
20130273516 | Automatic Determination of User Alignments and Recommendations for Electronic Resources - Various implementations for automatically determining user alignments and recommendations for electronic resources are described. One example implementation includes an assessment module, an alignment module, and a recommender. The assessment module determines performance levels of two or more users of an educational platform. The alignment module determines an alignment between the two or more users of the educational platform based on the performance levels of the two or more users. The recommender generates a recommendation for a social graph connection between the two or more users in a social graph based on the alignment. | 10-17-2013 |
20130280689 | Interactive Presentation System and Associated Methods - A system and method are provided for presenting information to members of an audience and allowing interaction with a presenter. The presenter and members of the audience access network software as a service in a browser operable with a processor. Member devices are placed in signal communications with the processor through an Internet connection or an Intranet connection. The network software is accessed by the presenter using a presenter device and information presented to the members in the audience allowing a many-to-one communication and sharing of information. | 10-24-2013 |
20130288219 | Providing Intelligent Inquiries In Question Answer Systems - A method, a system and a computer program product for selecting a further inquiry for a user to clarify a request for information from the user. One or more candidate answers to the request for information from the user are determined, and a score value is generated for each of one or more characteristics of each candidate answer, where at least one characteristic is associated with an inquiry for the user to clarify the request for information. A characteristic associated with an inquiry is determined that includes score values providing the greatest potential adjustment for the candidate answers in response to a clarification of the request for information, and the inquiry is selected that is associated with the determined characteristic for presentation to the user. | 10-31-2013 |
20130295545 | NON-LINEAR QUEST-BASED LEARNING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method of teaching in a cloud-based learning environment is disclosed herein. In this method, students are presented with a group of quest files wherein each quest file corresponds to a non-linear quest-based curriculum. The method includes creating a group of quests files to enable a student to pursue a non-linear quest path to reach at least one predetermined learning objective. The method also includes associating the group of quest files and the at least one predetermined learning objective with at least one standard and using achievement tracking tools configured to indicate a status associated with each student. The achievement tracking tools are configured to indicate (1) each quest activity that each student has commenced, (2) a progress associated with each quest activity, and (3) each quest activity that each student has successfully completed. The method also includes using evaluation tools to evaluate work of each student. | 11-07-2013 |
20130295546 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING AND ELICITING MISSING QUESTION DETAILS IN A CONSULTATION SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention further provide systems and methods for automatically identifying question details or soliciting the missing details from users posting questions to an online consultation system. | 11-07-2013 |
20130309644 | SECURED COMPUTER BASED ASSESSMENT - System and methods for secured computer based assessment are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a question paper from an assessment conduction center, wherein the question paper contains dummy content having structure similar to an actual content of the question paper. A question paper metadata template containing metadata of the actual content that is generated based on the dummy content is created, and provided to the assessment conduction center for loading the actual content of the question paper in the question paper metadata template to generate an examination paper for distribution to one or more exam centers. A response of each of a plurality of aspirants corresponding to the examination paper is obtained from the one or more exam centers and said response is evaluated based on the metadata of the actual content, to generate a result for each of the plurality of aspirants. | 11-21-2013 |
20130309645 | Systems and Methods for Educational Social Networking - A peer instruction network comprising a scalable, web-based university combining peer instruction, social networking technologies and conventional university courses to provide a rich and scalable learning platform for a virtual university of the 21st century. | 11-21-2013 |
20130309646 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an information processing device including an operation history acquisition unit for acquiring operation history information in which an input operation of a learner terminal by a learner who uses learning content is associated with a time at which the input operation is acquired, and an acceptance ability estimation unit for estimating an acceptance ability of the learner with regard to the learning content based on the operation history information. | 11-21-2013 |
20130309647 | Methods and Systems for Educational On-Line Methods - A Double-Loop Mutual Assessment (DLMA) method may assess complex, non-objective, content. For example, a DLMA method can use formative and summative peer assessment to generate textual feedback and/or numeric success metrics. One or more DLMA methods can be used in any number of situations. For example, one or more DLMA methods may be used in online courses, in-person courses, blended courses, written submissions, consumer assessment of products and/or services, performance evaluation, assessing individual contributions to group projects, and/or other tasks. | 11-21-2013 |
20130309648 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE CLASS SUPPORT AND EDUCATION MANAGEMENT - A system for interactive class support and education management is provided. The system includes a first device configured to create a course, to upload materials used for the course to a server, to set students to participate in the course, to configure a student group in a class, and to manage information of the students and education of the students, and a second device configured to submit an assignment result and a test by using materials created by the first device. The first device performs correction guidance for the assignment and test submitted by the first device and stores teacher-correction-guided content in the server, and the second device receives the correction guidance from the first device. | 11-21-2013 |
20130316322 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING COLLABORATIVE LEARNING - The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for providing collaborative learning. In one embodiment, a method includes presenting a visual representation of a task in a first modality to a plurality of users in a group on a shared display and receiving a plurality of inputs from input devices associated with the respective users for solving the task. At least one of the inputs comprises a visual representation of the at least one input in a second modality that is different from the first modality and a successful completion of the task by the group requires a correct solution that is collectively dependent upon all of the inputs. | 11-28-2013 |
20130316323 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING COLLABORATIVE LEARNING - The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing collaborative learning. In one embodiment, a method includes presenting a first task to a plurality of users on a shared display and receiving inputs via respective input devices for collectively solving the task. The received inputs are analyzed to determine whether the task is correctly performed and to infer one or more probabilistic conclusions about a level of comprehension associated with the first task. An output is presented based upon the probabilistic conclusions about the level of comprehension. | 11-28-2013 |
20130344469 | Open Paradigm for Interactive Networked Educational Systems - An interactive networked classroom system including a teacher workstation with a base application, and one or more code segments. Each code segment includes a teacher version and a student version. The code segments include API links to a base application at the teacher workstation, or to helper functions such as plug-ins to the base application, such that the student version of the code segment has different rights, typically fewer and less powerful rights, than the teacher version of the same code segment. The teacher workstation forwards the student version of a code segment to student workstations that are in communication with the teacher workstation over a network facility; the student code segments may be embedded in a document corresponding to a classroom activity. Interactive classroom activities are then carried out using the code segments in combination with the base application. The use of scripting language (or applets) enables education personnel to create new educational contexts without requiring alteration of the base application code. | 12-26-2013 |
20130344470 | ONLINE PROCTORING PROCESS FOR DISTANCE-BASED TESTING - A system for enabling real time live proctoring of an exam across a distributed network includes a first remote computer. The first remote computer is capable of real time audio visual capture and display of an image of a user of the first remote computer. A second remote computer is capable of real time audio visual capture and display of an image of the user of the second remote computer. A server is in communication with the first remote computer and the second remote computer, and provides an interactive web based scheduling portal accessible from the first remote computer and the second remote computer. A database is associated with the server for storing data regarding the rules for proctoring of an exam including the rate at which an exam may be proctored at a given date and time. The server enables access to a virtual exam room by the first remote computer and the second remote computer in response to a request from the first remote computer through the scheduling portal for a date and time to take an exam administered at the first computer when the requested date and time fulfils the rules stored in the database. | 12-26-2013 |
20140004497 | Method and System for Classroom Active Learning | 01-02-2014 |
20140004498 | COMPUTING METHOD AND SYSTEM WITH DETACHED SENSOR IN A WINDOW ENVIRONMENT | 01-02-2014 |
20140017653 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR A VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION CLOUD - A system, method, and apparatus for providing educational content via a cloud, include creating a plurality of available educational sessions, the educational sessions comprising a virtual network and being savable by a user for later completion. Saving a session includes saving a state of the virtual network; selecting a subset of the educational sessions, the subset being vetted by an academic instructor, the sessions satisfying requirements for an academic curriculum; recording progress of a student performing the subset of educational sessions; and indicating completion of the academic curriculum in response to the student successfully performing the subset of educational sessions. | 01-16-2014 |
20140024007 | PORTAL/DASHBOARD INTERFACE FOR TEACHER/STUDENT RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT AND TRADITION PRESERVATION WEBSITE - A virtual studio for managing the relationship between a teacher and their students where the teacher uses multiple customizable portals to communicate with and manage their students. The teacher is able to customize the portal on a per student basis. The virtual studio also enables the teacher to promote students to perform other roles in the studio and includes a comprehensive invoicing feature for billing purposes. The virtual studio also helps teachers share their lessons with other virtual studios. | 01-23-2014 |
20140030687 | INCLUDING USAGE DATA TO IMPROVE COMPUTER-BASED TESTING OF APTITUDE - Administration of an aptitude test is limited to one or more explicitly authorized computers associated with the user and usage of each computer is monitored during administration of the test and evaluated to make inferences regarding the user's aptitude beyond the direct results of the test. If the computer used by an authenticated is not properly authorized for the user, much tighter authentication is required to add the computer as an authorized computer. In addition, the server determines an approximate geological location of the computer. If the computer is determined to be at a location the user is not expected to be, the server refuses to administer the test. The server receives the responsive solutions provided by the user along with usage data representing usage of the user's computer during the pendency of each challenge. In evaluating the test results, the usage data is used to make one or more inferences of the user's aptitude. | 01-30-2014 |
20140030688 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR COLLECTING AND DISPLAYING QUERY RESPONSES OVER A DATA NETWORK - One method for communicating recommendations over a data network, comprising the steps of an initiating participant asking a question of a primary responder over the network; the primary responder providing a first answer to the question over the network and recommending at least one secondary responder to provide an answer to the question; each of the at least one secondary responder providing a second answer to the question over the network and further recommending at least one tertiary responder to provide an answer to the question; the at least one tertiary responder providing a third answer to the question over the network; and, a computer receiving each of the first, second and third answers and displaying them in a hierarchical manner. | 01-30-2014 |
20140038155 | Bayesian Regression Techniques for Determining True Measurements - Techniques for estimating a true measurement from a Bayesian regression on an observed measurement of received responses. | 02-06-2014 |
20140038156 | LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD THAT DISPLAYS ACTIVITY STREAMS BASED ON STUDENT CONTACTS - A learning management system and method delivers an instructional material to a student workstation after authenticating an student's entry into a learning session that is associated with a plurality of contacts. Stored electronic addresses in a database include a first electronic address that is associated with a first contact and a second electronic address that is associated with a second contact. The first contact is associated with the learning session and the second contact is not associated with the learning session. A first activity stream associated with the first contact and a second activity stream associated with the second contact is selectively displayed to the student such that upon detection of student's entry into the learning session, the first activity stream is displayed without displaying the second activity stream and the second activity stream is displayed upon detection of student's exit from the learning session either with displaying the first activity stream or without displaying the first activity stream. | 02-06-2014 |
20140038157 | LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD THAT PREVENTS COMMUNICATION OF UNAUTHORIZED CONTENT DURING A LEARNING SESSION - A learning management system and method displays a learning environment for delivery of instructional material to a remote student workstation student after authenticating a student at the remote student workstation. The learning environment displays a user interface to the student on the remote student workstation used to interact with an instructional material when the student enters into a learning session associated with a course when messages are communicated to and from the student. Communicated messages with the student are monitored to determine whether a message contains an unauthorized content and upon detection of an unauthorized content, an alert message is transmitted, for example, to an student associated with the course or to the student. | 02-06-2014 |
20140038158 | LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD THAT COMMUNICATES MESSAGES AMONGST GEOGRAPHICALLY DISPERSED STUDENTS BASED ON REGION PROFILES - A learning management system and method displays corresponding learning environments for delivery of instructional material to a plurality of geographically dispersed remote student workstations located in a plurality of regions after the learning system authenticates a corresponding plurality of students at the plurality of geographically dispersed remote student workstations. Each learning environment displays a user interface on a respective remote student workstation located in one region of the plurality of regions. At least one region profile stores information specifying a rule associated with communication of information between a first region and another second region. Messages are communicated amongst the geographically dispersed remote student workstations located in the plurality of regions in accordance with the region profile. | 02-06-2014 |
20140038159 | MOBILE BASED EDUCATION AND TESTING SYSTEM - A mobile based learning and testing system comprising a mobile device for mobile based learning and testing, wherein the mobile device is communicatively coupled to a server that supports retrieving educational and instructional material and testing. The mobile device comprises a downloadable educational mobile app capable of presenting educational and instructional material retrieved from the server, facilitating group interactions, providing a mock test, conducting an actual test and arranging automatic registration of a user of the mobile device based on a test result from the actual test. The downloadable educational mobile app presents the educational and instructional material (retrieved from the server, or locally) to the user of the mobile device based at least on the user's membership in a group of users, the user's membership information being maintained by the server. | 02-06-2014 |
20140045163 | INTERACTIVE RESPONSE SYSTEM AND QUESTION GENERATION METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE RESPONSE SYSTEM - A question generation method for interactive response system includes steps of executing an interactive response program in a host device, wherein the host device includes a memory module and the interactive response program includes a question generation module; enabling a manager device and a plurality of user devices to communicate with the host device, wherein the manager device includes a hot operation module; operating the manager device to browse an object; operating the manager device to select a content within the object; operating the hot operation module to trigger the interactive response program to copy the content to the memory module; and controlling the question generation module to generate a question relative to the content for the user devices to answer. | 02-13-2014 |
20140051054 | Method and System for Classroom Active Learning - A method and system for conducting interactive classroom learning that can utilize a plurality of electronic audio and video equipment, mobile computing devices, and processing servers, interconnected via a first network infrastructure in a classroom or presentation hall to deliver seamlessly interactive multimedia contents to each of one or more participants in classroom or presentation hall; wherein the participants comprises one or more lecturers or presenters, and one or more students or audiences. The method and system allow the control and coordination of the electronic audio and video equipment, mobile computing devices, and the processing servers to deliver the interactive multimedia contents to the participants in the classroom or presentation hall simultaneously and to facilitate the information input-output interactions to and from the participants; wherein the interactive multimedia contents can be divided into multiple parts or streams, and each being personalized for each or each subset of the participants. | 02-20-2014 |
20140057240 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR FACILITATING CREATION OF AN ADVANCED DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, AND TERMINAL, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR THE SAME - A method for facilitating the creation of a digital communications network by collaborative interaction among users at computer interfaces, the method comprising, at a terminal in a digital communications network: receiving question data; collecting answer data, collaboration data, and selection data relating to the terminal; transmitting the collected answer data to at least one first remote terminal; receiving answer data from the at least one first remote terminal responsive to identical question data as the received question data; receiving collaborative data from the first remote terminal; one or more of storing and displaying the question data and responsive answer data; and displaying answer data from the at least one first remote terminal in accordance with whether the at least one first remote terminal is assigned to a same predetermined first-tier group as the terminal in an answer data driven device hierarchy. A terminal, system and computer-readable medium are also disclosed. | 02-27-2014 |
20140065591 | COLLABORATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM - In one aspect, in general, a system comprises a computer system configured to enable users to interact with a collection of learning groups, each learning group associated with at least one group leader and having members each approved by a group leader, and within each learning group, instances of training programs chosen by the group leader from a library of training programs available to the system, each instance of a training program includes a collection of lessons, each lesson includes a multimedia portion and an interactivity portion, the interactivity portion enabling asynchronous interaction among the members of the learning group, the multimedia portion being available to users other than members of the learning group, and the interactivity portion being available only to the members of the learning group | 03-06-2014 |
20140065592 | INTERACTIVE LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM - The present invention comprises a system and method for monitoring participants in an educational environment and comprises: obtaining a set of predefined parameters, obtaining a first data set and a second data set, wherein the first data set comprises standardized summary data relating to the educational environment and the second data set comprises non-standardized granular data relating to the educational environment, converting the second data set into a standardized data set (a third data set) by identifying relationships between a value in the first data set and a value in the second data set, storing the standardized data sets in a consolidated data set on a memory resource, and generating a notification when the data in the consolidated data set satisfies the set of predefined parameters. | 03-06-2014 |
20140065593 | Automated Assessment and Analysis System - The present invention relates to the field of automated evaluation, assessment and analysis. Disclosed is a method to create and store assignments, automatically analyze student accuracy and ability, and store analysis on individual students for an extended amount of time. This method can reduce the time and effort exerted by teachers in the creation and grading of assignments and more effectively analyzes student progress than any known software. An assessment software, “TEACH-TECH,” combined with a web-based database, “Cloud,” in the novel manner disclosed provides a means for substantially increasing the effectiveness of the educational system. | 03-06-2014 |
20140072945 | Method and a system to deliver a live and instant interactive school experience over a plurality of learning sites at different locations, such locations being broadcast simultaneously to a plurality of cohort or individual learners at different locations throughout a network. - A system for delivering distance learning enables a plurality of teaching sites to be streamed to multiple locations via a network with instant, real time information conveyance and instant interaction between at least one teacher at least one of said teaching sites and at least one learner at least one learning site via video images, audio signals, whiteboard functions, and other text chat messaging and other digital signal modes. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072946 | Identity Management for Computer Based Testing System - A method and system for identity management and authentication of examination candidates by, for example, capturing biometric data and identification information from an examination candidate and storing the data and information in a database. The method and system includes, for example, capturing biometric data from an individual at a later time for comparison with data stored in the database, and which allows authentication of the individual after determining that the biometric data matches the previously stored data and the individual matches the previously stored information. | 03-13-2014 |
20140087350 | INTERACTIVE TEST PREPARATION PLATFORM - An interactive test preparation platform that provides test problems and solutions in an interactive and enhanced manner. For example, the platform can provide an interactive problem and solution user interface that presents solution notations across different selectable problem screens in a manner that enhances the user's understanding of the problem and solution. The platform can enable the user to launch via the user interface multiple videos that explain the solutions to a particular problem in an efficient and bandwidth sensitive manner. The platform can also provide a navigation user interface that enables a user to locate items of interest in a quick and efficient manner by dynamically ordering the items in response to a selected item characteristic. | 03-27-2014 |
20140087351 | COMPUTER-BASED APPROACH TO COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOM - A system for providing educators an approach to peer learning that helps students develop skills in specific content areas and build their self-efficacy: (a) collaborative, (b) reward-based educational techniques, and (c) teacher feedback on skill building effectiveness in the classroom environment. The configurable problem settings, problem generator, leveling milestones, classroom configurations, game play, and reporting analytics are made available through a Web portal to those involved with the subject children for which the programs are intended. Additionally, the portal allows for access to on-line reward based point program, a program comprised of a pool of merchants that partner with the present system program to allow exchange of products or discounts on their respective products for participants in the present system program. Players in the game receive virtual rewards for participation. | 03-27-2014 |
20140087352 | COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR CAPTURING STUDENT PERFORMANCE - A method of capturing student performance can be provided that includes enabling a course creator to generate assessment data related to learning assessments for an online course and to generate learning outcomes for the online course, associating the assessment data with the learning outcomes, such that at least some of the learning assessments correspond to at least some of the learning outcomes, and generating an online classroom. The method may further include providing the learning assessments to students enrolled in the online course using the online classroom, wherein the students can generate completed learning assessments, and determining, for each of the completed learning assessments, whether one or more of the learning outcomes were met by each of the students. | 03-27-2014 |
20140093857 | Method of Facilitating Online and Socially Networked Education Between Learning Institutions - A method is provided of facilitating online education between learning institutions, including the steps of obtaining an e-learning course from a content provider learning institution; obtaining the approval of a subscriber learning institution for students enrolled at such institution to receive academic credit for the successful completion of such e-learning course; enrolling students from such subscriber learning institution in such e-learning course through a website; providing such e-learning course to students of the subscriber learning institution; obtaining an evaluation of the students' performances in the e-learning course from the content provider learning institution; providing said evaluations of the students' performances in such e-learning course to the subscriber learning institution in which the students are enrolled; and providing remuneration to the subscriber learning institution and content provider learning institution. | 04-03-2014 |
20140099623 | SOCIAL GRAPHS BASED ON USER BIORESPONSE DATA - In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating an implicit social graph is provided. The method can include the step of receiving a first eye-tracking data of a first user. The first eye-tracking data can be associated with a first component. The eye-tracking data can be received from a first user device. A second eye-tracking data can be received from a second user. The second eye-tracking data can be associated with a second visual component. The second eye-tracking data can be received from a second user device. One or more attributes can be associated with the first user. The one or more attributes can be determined based on an association of the first eye-tracking data and the first visual component. One or more attributes can be associated with the second user. The one or more attributes can be determined based on an association of the second eye-tracking data and the second visual component. The first user and the second user can be linked in an implicit social graph when the first user and the second user substantially share one or more attributes. | 04-10-2014 |
20140099624 | MENTOR-TUNED GUIDED LEARNING IN ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS - Computer-based systems, methods, media, and educational system assembling platforms comprising an educational environment which further comprises: at least one area of skill, interest, or expertise; a population of learning activities associated with each area of skill, interest, or expertise; and a guided learning mode comprising: a software module configured to display and provide access to one or more subpopulations of learning activities to be completed by a learner; a software module configured to suggest or recommend one or more particular learning activities to a learner based on analysis of learner data; and a software module configured to allow a mentor to view and tune learner data on which suggestions or recommendations are based. | 04-10-2014 |
20140099625 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS - The present invention (referred to herein as EthAssist) is a computer software application that delivers healthcare, life sciences, and academic industries professionals and educators an integration of academic and applied bioethics for daily use in their facilities. EthAssist provides a standardized methodology and process for gathering information supported by a comprehensive searchable body of current, relevant, academic research on clinical ethics topics specific to four knowledge bases: Knowledge-ICB, EthicsConsult, Curriculum Builder, and Internal Review Board Quality Assurance (IRBQA). | 04-10-2014 |
20140106331 | Systems and Methods for On-Line Course Management and Examination Preparation - Systems and methods allow for on-line examination preparation and advertisements relating to the same. Specifically, the systems have four modules: a first module that allows an individual to easily design and present to users a study guide and mock examination system for aiding the users in preparing for an examination; a second module that allows users to easily access the study guide and mock examination system; a third module that allows advertisers to prepare and define advertisements to present to users that utilize the system; and/or a fourth module that analyzes users' performance and/or analyzes advertisers' performance to provide feedback to the individuals who designed the study guide and/or mock examination, the user thereof, the advertiser, and/or any other individual. Each of the modules may be accessible by the various users, whether the individuals that design and present the study guides and mock examinations, the users that utilize the study guides and mock examinations, and/or the advertisers. | 04-17-2014 |
20140106332 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE SOCIAL LEARNING - A method and apparatus of a device that measures and responds to the level engagement of a student with a mobile social learning system is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device monitors a stream of student events, where each student event characterizes an aspect of engagement the student has with the mobile social learning system. The device classifies the student event with a mobile social learning classification, where the classifying determines a student event class for the student event. The device further matches a student event-based trigger with the student event class, where the student event-based trigger includes an action to be performed if the student event-based trigger matches the student event. If the student event-based trigger matches the student event, the device performs the action. | 04-17-2014 |
20140120511 | TeachAtCafe - TeaChatCafe, Transparent Digital and Social Media as an Open Network Communication and Collaboration Tool with User Driven Content and Internet Content Submission Capability for Educators and Their Students - A method, systems, and computer programming products that support transparent, safe online communication and collaboration for educators and their students participating in any K-12 or higher-education institutions. A software application is provided as a framework that allows teachers and students to reach out to one another digitally and from a variety of social media technologies without social entanglement and in a completely transparent way. This invention provides a method, system and software application that pushes all chatting/texting/messages and other user driven content between two users to a monitoring portal that allows school administrators and parents to view all digital communication between their students and educators. In addition, automated keyword searches run in the background that will alert monitors of misconduct or inappropriate language. All system registrants are informed and agree to the transparent dialog before use. | 05-01-2014 |
20140120512 | INTERNET-BASED EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE CORRELATION OF LESSONS, RESOURCES AND ASSESSMENTS TO STATE STANDARDS - An apparatus assists educators in selecting achievement tools to meet an applicable one of a plurality of sets of educational standards. A first table holds a plurality of educational standards and a plurality of linked keywords. A second table holds a plurality of achievement tools, such as lesson plans, assessments and resources, and a plurality of linked keywords. A table manipulator program permits an educator to select an educational standard and shows achievement tools applicable to the selected educational standard by having a matching of keywords linked to the achievement tools to keywords linked to the educational standards. | 05-01-2014 |
20140134589 | Systems and Methods for Conducting Surveys - Systems and methods for conducting one or more surveys are provided herein. In certain embodiments, one or more participants may be identified to take part in a survey. Each of the participants may be associated with a respective user computing device. The user computing devices may present each of the participants with content to rate and/or review. In this manner, each of the participants may provide a review and/or rating of the content via the user computing devices. Further, based at least in part on the review and/or rating of the content, a survey profile of the content may be determined. | 05-15-2014 |
20140134590 | Progress Tracking And Management System - A computer implemented method and system for tracking and managing progress of performance goals developed by one or more institutions and district administrations at multiple levels is provided. A progress management platform (PMP) accessible via a network, receives goal information and goal criteria at one or more levels and generates one or more modifiable performance goals at those levels. The PMP tracks progress of the generated modifiable performance goals (GMPGs) by collecting and monitoring observations received on execution of the GMPGs by internal entities at one or more levels, self reviews and peer reviews received from the internal entities at one or more levels, feedback received from external entities, etc. The PMP generates one or more progress reports at one or more levels based on the tracked progress of the GMPGs to quantify results of the execution of the GMPGs for facilitating accountability, professional development, and development of improvement programs. | 05-15-2014 |
20140134591 | EDUCATION MONITORING - Group-based, periodic education intervention that provides a targeted curriculum selected specifically for each period based on current skill assessment data is described. For example, candidates' skill levels in multiple skills are assessed, and groups are formed based on commonality of skill level. A period-specific curriculum is generated for each group to address the specific needs of the individuals of the respective group. After delivery of the period-specific targeted curriculum over the period, re-assessments of the current skill of the group members are made, and a period-specific curriculum for the subsequent period is generated and delivered. Fidelity of an implementation of the curriculum is analyzed, and alerts, reminders, and reports are provided to improve fidelity of an implementation of the curriculum. | 05-15-2014 |
20140141400 | METHODS, MEDIA, AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTER-BASED LEARNING - Methods, systems, and media for computer-based learning are provided. In some embodiments, methods for leaching a student in a computer-based learning environment are provided, the methods comprising: identifying a concept to be taught to the student; accessing a learning profile for the student, wherein the learning profile identifies at least one category of content as being more successful than other categories in teaching the student; selecting content based on the student learning profile, the concept to be taught, and a categorization of the content; and presenting the content to the student. | 05-22-2014 |
20140147822 | COMPUTERIZED TEACHING AND LEARNING DIAGNOSIS TOOL - Systems, methods, and devices for providing digital content for educational and entertainment purposes. Learner computing devices for use by learners are networked with an educator computing device and a database server. Parameter input from the educator computing device is received at each of the learner computing devices and an activity is presented by the learner computing device to the learner. The activity's parameters are determined by the parameters received from the educator computing device. Data regarding the learner's performance in the activity is gathered and sent as a database entry to a database. A server then retrieves and processes the data and the processed data is sent to the educator computing device. The processed data displays whether the learner requires further instructions or more attention from the educator. Each learner computing device may be used with multiple learners. | 05-29-2014 |
20140147823 | System for constructively focusing learner attention guided by a facilitator - A system for inciting a body of students to focus on academic topics and produce compositions regarding those topics is disclosed. The system comprises a host system on which an application can execute which navigates students along a virtual path as moderated by a teacher, with students being required to create compositions to be evaluated by the teacher in order to proceed. The system additionally provides communication mechanisms between students and teachers, a peer reviewable gallery of teacher approved compositions, and a mechanism to customize the virtual path to match the initial mental focus of the student group. | 05-29-2014 |
20140147824 | INDEPENDENT E-LEARNING STANDARD ENGINES - Various embodiments of systems and methods for developing independent e-learning standard engines are described herein. The method includes loading e-learning standard compliant content into a content player. Further, the method involves selecting one of several strategy engines that support delivering the loaded e-learning standard compliant content. The strategy engines are developed as independent tools configured to operate with a content player, irrespective of a type of the content player, to deliver the content. Further, a portion of the content and one or more user interface elements are presented on a user interface, where the one or more user interface elements are configured to navigate the content according to a learning strategy provided by the selected strategy engine. | 05-29-2014 |
20140147825 | DIGITAL CLASS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A digital class management system including a server and a client device in communication with the server. The client device is displays a digital document stored on the server to a user where the digital document includes text, images, and white space. An input communicates with the server so that movements of the input relative to the client device causes the display device to display the movements on the digital document. | 05-29-2014 |
20140147826 | SYSTEM OF PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND METHOD THEREFOR - A system for publication and distribution of instructional materials comprises a host computer capable of receiving and storing educational works having one or more segments over a communications network, receiving one or more selections of at least one of the segments, producing a compilation of educational course materials containing at least the selected segments, receiving a request for access rights to a selection of one or more segments of the compilation, and providing access rights to the selected segments in response to the request. | 05-29-2014 |
20140162236 | INTERACTIVE ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING A SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING MODELS OF PROBLEMS - An interactive assignment system to present problems to users. The interactive assignment system may include a simulation system to simulate interactions of objects of a model of the problem. The simulation system may be configured to determine characterizations of properties of the model based on simulating the interactions. The interactive assignment system may enable users to input a characterization of a property of the model, and the simulation system may determine a correct characterization from evaluating the model. The users' input may then be compared to the correct characterization to determine whether the users' input is correct. Similarly, the interactive assignment system may enable a user configuring a problem (such as an instructor for a course) merely to indicate a property of the model to which a desired solution relates, and the simulation system may determine a correct characterization of the property from evaluating the model. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162237 | INTERACTIVE ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING A SIMULATION SYSTEM FOR SIMULATING MODELS OF PROBLEMS - An interactive assignment system to present problems to users. The interactive assignment system may include a simulation system to simulate interactions of objects of a model of the problem. The simulation system may be configured to determine characterizations of properties of the model based on simulating the interactions. The interactive assignment system may enable users to input a characterization of a property of the model, and the simulation system may determine a correct characterization from evaluating the model. The users' input may then be compared to the correct characterization to determine whether the users' input is correct. Similarly, the interactive assignment system may enable a user configuring a problem (such as an instructor for a course) merely to indicate a property of the model to which a desired solution relates, and the simulation system may determine a correct characterization of the property from evaluating the model. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162238 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEACHING, LEARNING, AND ASSESSING THE KNOWLEDGE OF STEM PRINCIPLES - An on-line teaching, learning and assessing system provides a teacher rapid feedback while teaching a classroom lesson on STEM principles by measuring student progress in learning the principles wherein student progress is measured by students' correct answers to assessment questions. The system includes at least one teacher computer and a plurality of student computers linked to the at least one teacher computer by a communications network. Each computer includes an input device and a touch sensitive screen for receiving handwritten input. The teacher inputs the teacher computer with at least one assessment question and at least one corresponding correct answer to the question, both inputs being handwritten using math expressions and STEM sketches. The student inputs the student computer with at least one student answer corresponding to the assessment question, the answer being handwritten using math expressions and STEM sketches. | 06-12-2014 |
20140162239 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE, REAL-TIME TABLET-BASED TUTORING - A peer-to-peer tutoring system is provided for use between touch screen portable electronic devices. The system provides a dynamic, real-time interactive session between a tutor and a student using a virtual whiteboard, real-time messaging and voice communications. The system also provides a full capture and review of sessions for future review by students and parents. The portable electronic devices exchange data in near real-time via a connection with a central server that acts as both an exchange mechanism to push, pull and manage session data, both current and historical. A tutor selection application allows students and parents to review tutors, review and create tutor ratings and create and manage appointments with tutors. | 06-12-2014 |
20140170626 | ANALYTICAL TOOLS FOR EVALUATING STUDENT LEARNING AND PERFORMANCE - In various embodiments, tools, strategies, and techniques are provided for analyzing student performance and learning activity to facilitate enhancing the student experience in different learning environments. A learning analysis system can be provided that uses a statistical analysis framework for making inferences about the level of learning of both individual students and classes of multiple students in association with different knowledge components included in a learning domain. | 06-19-2014 |
20140178848 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADMINISTERING LEARNING CONTENTS - Provided is a method and apparatus for generating learning contents. The method includes: receiving a setting on an examination paper condition from a first user terminal and providing a list of questions matching the examination paper condition to the first user terminal; receiving a selection of questions from the list of questions from the first user terminal and generating an examination paper based on the selected questions; receiving a selection of examination paper from a list of examination papers from a second user terminal and providing the selected examination paper to the second user terminal; and requesting the first and second user terminals to rate the selected questions in the generated examination paper, and receiving ratings from the first and second user terminals. | 06-26-2014 |
20140186813 | ACADEMIA INDUSTRY INTERFACE FRAMEWORK - The present subject matter relates to an academia industry interface framework. The method includes receiving collaboration instructions from an industrial organization. The method further comprises defining a plurality of collaboration parameters based on the collaboration instructions. The collaboration parameters comprise at least one of communication parameters, leadership influence parameters, influencing curriculum parameters, faculty influence parameters, and student influence parameters. Further, the method initiates the communication between the industrial organization and different sections of an academic institution in a predefined sequence based on the collaboration parameters. | 07-03-2014 |
20140186814 | WIRELESS ACCESS POINT WITH INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT TECHNOLOGY - A wireless access point includes a radio frequency adapter for transmitting and receiving data, a wireless network adapter for transmitting and receiving data, and a memory comprising a proctor assessment program. The proctor assessment program is configured to receive, via the radio frequency adapter, data representative of a response to an assessment question. The proctor assessment program is further configured to store the data representative of the response in the memory. The proctor assessment program is further configured to transmit, via the wireless network adapter, the data representative of the response. | 07-03-2014 |
20140186815 | System and Method for What-If Analysis of a University Based On University Model Graph - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is structurally modeled using a university model graph. A key benefit of modeling of the educational institution is to help in an introspective analysis by the educational institute. Specifically, the model is quite beneficial for undertaking the analysis of the various issues faced by the educational institute. A what-if scenario requires the model to be suitably changed to address the issue under consideration and the changed model needs to be analyzed to determine how the issue could be handled. A system and method for what-if scenario analysis based on the university model graph is discussed. | 07-03-2014 |
20140193791 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EDUCATION INCLUDING COMMUNITY-SOURCED DATA AND COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS - A system and method for education including community-sourced data and community interactions. The method can include registering a plurality of users in a database, presenting educational material to a user of the plurality of users, recording the performance of the user in regards to the educational material, collecting personal statistics regarding the performance of the user, compiling the personal statistics for the plurality of users to generate community statistics regarding the performance of the plurality of users, comparing the personal statistics of a user to the community statistics or to a subset thereof, collecting personal information from each user of the plurality of users, subdividing the plurality of users into a plurality of communities based on the personal information of each user, facilitating interactions between the users within a community of the plurality of communities, and generating a credibility score for each user within the community. | 07-10-2014 |
20140193792 | Portal Assessment Design System for Educational Testing - A Portal Assessment Design System includes a system for designing assessment models and assessments (e.g., standardized tests). In assessment design, specifications are organized around three basic elements: 1) what knowledge, skill or abilities are important to measure; 2) what is necessary evidence of that knowledge, skill or ability; 3) what performance situations are needed to elicit the required evidence from students and other assessment users. The system includes three modules (i.e., Domain Analysis, Domain Modeling, Conceptual Assessment Framework), each of which targets a specific phase of the design process, for designing an assessment in accordance with the three basic elements. The sequence of modules represents the structure of a design process that helps assessment developers work through successive stages or phases of assessment design, from the gathering of raw information to the creation of a complete set of specifications for an assessment product. Each module has its own set of objects for organizing information, such as knowledge skills and abilities of interest of the students being tested, evidence of these, and situations structured to elicit this evidence. The modules and objects of the system are implemented as a software application executing in a client-server environment. | 07-10-2014 |
20140193793 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION BASED ON ASYNCHRONOUS INTERACTION - The invention facilitates asynchronous interaction between a geographically separated facilitator and at least one user. The said invention provides asynchronous interaction between rural classrooms (teacher-student community) and expert teachers to increase the outreach of the expert teachers much beyond that is permitted with the teachings of the prior art. | 07-10-2014 |
20140199674 | Combined Curriculum And Grade Book Manager With Integrated Student/Teacher Evaluation Functions Based On Adopted Standards - A combined curriculum and grade book manager with integrated student/teacher evaluation functions based on adopted standards is described. A curriculum managing module is configured to provide for display a plurality of course identifiers for courses taught by a teacher and a curriculum associated with each course identifier. Each curriculum includes a plurality of activity identifiers of assessment activities (e.g. tests) for each curriculum. At least some of the activity identifiers are selectively associated with a standards-based assessment activity and adopted standard. A grade book managing module is configured to provide for display a plurality of student identifiers for each course identifier and to provide for entry and display of grades for the assessment activities for each student identifier. The grade book managing module is further configured to interface with a standards-based evaluation module to produce and provide for display standards-based student scores for the assessment activities. | 07-17-2014 |
20140199675 | SOCIAL NETWORK BASED EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND METHODS OF IMPLEMENTING AND USING SOCIAL NETWORK BASED EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURES - A method for enabling users to offer educational support in response to a designation of instructor identifier (ID) tags associated with network accessible learning documents. The method comprises selecting by a first user using a first client terminal a network accessible learning document, associating an instructor ID tag indicative of the first user with the network accessible learning document, instructing a presentation of the instructor ID tag in association with the presentation of the network accessible learning document to a second user accessing the network accessible learning document via a second client terminal, identifying a user selection designating the instructor ID tag and made by the second user, and establishing a tutorial session which is based on an interactive communication connection between the first user and the second user. | 07-17-2014 |
20140205987 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING ACADEMIC PLANNING AND TRACKING VIA AN INTERACTIVE REPOSITORY DATABASE - An apparatus and method to collect, integrate, and marshal the academic course offerings and requirements of secondary educational institutions, the admission requirements and preferences of postsecondary educational institutions, and the academic and career goals of current and prospective secondary students to assist and facilitate the creation of academic plans in a collaborative informed manner. The apparatus collects relevant information from various informed parties and makes such information available in an integrated and marshaled form enabling efficient and effective planning. The system can be adapted to assist in the academic planning of postsecondary students in light of the admissions requirements and preferences of graduate and postgraduate programs as well. | 07-24-2014 |
20140205988 | SYSTEM, SOFTWARE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF USE THEREOF FOR THE TRANSFER OF INFORMATION BETWEEN A MODERATOR ADN RECIPIENTS - The present invention relates to a web-based computer system, a web-based computer software, and a method of use thereof for the transfer of information between a moderator and a plurality of recipients either in a face-to-face environment or in a remote environment, and more specifically the use of a moderator station, a projector display, and a plurality of user web-enabled devices connected to a network in a group and team competitive environment. | 07-24-2014 |
20140212865 | ONLINE PROCTORING PROCESS FOR DISTANCE-BASED TESTING - A system for enabling real time live proctoring of an exam across a distributed network includes a first remote computer. The first remote computer is capable of real time audio visual capture and display of an image of a user of the first remote computer. A second remote computer is capable of real time audio visual capture and display of an image of the user of the second remote computer. A server is in communication with the first remote computer and the second remote computer, and provides an interactive web based scheduling portal accessible from the first remote computer and the second remote computer. A database is associated with the server for storing data regarding the rules for proctoring of an exam including the rate at which an exam may be proctored at a given date and time. The server enables access to a virtual exam room by the first remote computer and the second remote computer in response to a request from the first remote computer through the scheduling portal for a date and time to take an exam administered at the first computer when the requested date and time fulfils the rules stored in the database. | 07-31-2014 |
20140220535 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR TAGGING ATOMIC LEARNING UNITS OF INSTRUCTIONAL CONTENT WITH STANDARDS AND LEVELS OF RIGOR AND FOR USING THE TAGGED ATOMIC LEARNING UNITS FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING A CURRICULUM FOR INDIVIDUALIZED ACADEMIC INSTRUCTION - A system for tagging atomic learning units of instructional content and for dynamically generating a curriculum tailored to an individual using the tagged units is disclosed. The system includes a tagging module for tagging atomic learning units of instructional content with at least one standard and at least one level of rigor to form learning objects. The system further includes a learning objects database for storing the learning objects. The system further includes a dynamic curriculum generation module for dynamically generating a curriculum tailored to an individual by selecting individual learning objects from the database using the tags and for presenting the curriculum to the individual. | 08-07-2014 |
20140220536 | Computer Implemented Methods, Systems and Products for Team Based Learning - Computer implemented methods, systems, and products uses learning cycles of individual and group work to emphasize the importance of collaborative behaviors and demonstrate the values of effective team work on outcomes. The computer implemented methods, systems, and products relate to team based learning with individual and group assessment for addressing a project or a problem, particularly to promote interaction between participants. In the computer implemented learning cycle, a team works as individuals and then as a group to determine responses to an overall project or problem. In addition to assessing the performance of the individuals and the determined individualized and overall responses, the computer implemented methods, systems, and products track the progress and activity of individuals and the team. Through the cycle of learning activities, individuals demonstrate personal responsibility, collaborative orientation, communication skills, conflict management, and problem solving. | 08-07-2014 |
20140220537 | E-LEARNING LESSON DELIVERY PLATFORM - Disclosed herein are e-learning lesson delivery platforms, products, programs, and methods comprising a digital processing device and a program that creates a lesson delivery server, wherein said server comprises: a plurality of learning activities, wherein said activities are organized according to an instructional plan designed to accomplish one or more educational objectives in at least one subject, wherein said plan identifies one or more activities for use in a guided environment and one or more activities for assignment as independent work; a module for displaying and providing access to said one or more activities in a guided environment; a module for assigning said one or more activities as independent work to one or more learners, wherein said module is only accessible by a mentor; and a module for displaying and providing access to activities assigned as independent work, wherein said module is accessible by a mentor or a learner. | 08-07-2014 |
20140234822 | SYSTEM FOR CO-CLUSTERING OF STUDENT ASSESSMENT DATA - A system and method for making use of formative assessment data collected is disclosed that identifies clusters of students and concurrently determines the characteristics of the student clusters. A decomposition of the data is performed with spectral theories of graphs and fuzzy logic algorithms to identify the clusters of students, clusters of assessment data and relationships between them. An actionable output is presented to teachers for the evaluation of educational progress. | 08-21-2014 |
20140234823 | ASSIGNMENT SHARING DEVICE, ASSIGNMENT SHARING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An assignment sharing device includes an assignment-related information storage unit configured to store assignment-related information including assignment information, challenger identification information, assignment approval information, and assignment achievement status information; an assignment information receiving unit configured to receive the assignment information and so forth; an assignment-related information accumulating unit configured to accumulate the assignment information and so forth as a single piece of assignment-related information; an assignment information transmitting unit configured to transmit corresponding assignment information to a challenger; an assignment approval receiving unit configured to receive assignment identification information identifying an assignment approved by the challenger; an assignment approving unit configured to set assignment approval information; and an assignment result information receiving unit configured to receive assignment result information, which is information regarding an execution result of an assignment represented by the assignment information corresponding to the set assignment approval information. | 08-21-2014 |
20140234824 | Interactive Learning System and Method - Disclosed is an interactive learning system and method comprising a plurality of student computing devices and database(s) connected through a network with teacher computing device(s), each adapted to help teachers and students engage in real-time qualitative content engagement, and may also provide real-time quantitative content engagement and analytics, to help determine the appropriate next learning steps of individual students and groups of students in real-time. In various example embodiments the system and method may provide actionable feedback and suggestions for students, for instance to help them understand the quality of their work and areas for further investigation. In various example embodiments the system and method may generate layers of data useful for improving subsequent classes directed to the same material, and for measuring and comparing various indicia, such as performance and trends at the student, teacher, school, district, and state levels, as well as identifying correlations and other statistical relationships. | 08-21-2014 |
20140242565 | QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PROBLEM SOLVING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND DESIGN FOR 21st CENTURY SKILLS - A system for managing course content for a course includes a database configured to store course content. Course content includes problem-solving learning environments and design (PSLED) blocks. An interface is configured to provide information from a PSLED block for a student. An input and output module are configured to receive and send input regarding at least one of the PSLED blocks stored in the database. An evaluation module is configured to evaluate the student based on assessment requirements in at least one of the PSLED blocks stored in the database and based on the assessment data. A mapping module is configured for analyzing and mapping attributes between PSLED blocks stored in the database, the attributes including at least one of equivalency of instructional units, equivalency of standards of learning and practice, equivalency of micro-certificates, and equivalency of micro-credentials. | 08-28-2014 |
20140242566 | TECHNIQUES FOR USE IN COMMUNICATIONS OF SYSTEMS FOR TARGETED DATACASTING - A central server outside of a school network receives assignments from educator computing devices, where each assignment includes content for distribution to student computing devices and a schedule indicating when the assignment is active for distribution. A local server within the school network receives the assignments and stores the assignments in a local server datastore. The local server receives from a gateway within the school network a request for active assignments, identifies the active assignments, and returns a list of the active assignments to the gateway. The gateway determines whether the list of the active assignments contains any assignments unretrieved by the given gateway. If so, the gateway sends to the local server a request for the unretrieved assignments. The gateway receives the requested assignments from the local server and stores them in a gateway datastore. | 08-28-2014 |
20140255895 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING AGENTS OF A CONTACT CENTER - A training system for providing training to agents of an enterprise is provided. The training system may include a retrieval module for retrieving content from at least one predetermined resource. The training system further may include a topic determining module for determining at least one topic based on the retrieved content. The training system further may include an answer selecting module for selecting an answer for the at least one topic from the retrieved content based upon predefined rules. The training system further may include a reporting module for reporting the at least one topic and answer to one or more agents of the enterprise. | 09-11-2014 |
20140255896 | AUTOMATED TESTING AND IMPROVEMENT OF TEACHING APPROACHES - Techniques are provided for testing alternative teaching approaches for specific portions of a curriculum. Test-triggering rules are established, each of which corresponds to a specific target-area. Each test-triggering rule specifies conditions which, if satisfied, indicate that a new teaching approach should be tested for the test-triggering rule's target-area. Once the test-triggering rules are established, the assessment results produced by students in instances of courses that implement the curriculum are monitored. If the assessment results satisfy the conditions, a revised teaching approach is selected for the target-area. The revision is then pushed out in waves where some course takers see the revision and others are held constant (A/B analysis). If a hypothesis is validated, then the appropriate revision can be permanently adopted. | 09-11-2014 |
20140255897 | Learning Management System - Disclosed is a “learning and doing” process-oriented learning management system designed to incorporate learning into collaborative work processes by managing work processes for users to submit, review, and approve work products; provide just-in-time access to learning resources for workers to learn how to complete the work products that are intended to result from the collaborative work process; and update the work process where worker/learners collaborate to create/update, review, and approve the learning resources. The learning management system can also manage a large number of collaborative work processes and integrates learning, training, and education on a single platform. In addition, it provides the capability to embed help for using the software into the work processes that the software manages. | 09-11-2014 |
20140255898 | Assessing Reading Comprehension And Critical Thinking Using Annotation Objects - A competency assessment system enables reading comprehension and critical thinking skills of a knowledge worker to be assessed. The competency assessment system enables a knowledge worker to create an assertion map based on one or more source literals. The assertion map comprises several assertion objects that link to different portions of the source literals or other assertion objects. The competency assessment system compares the assertion map created by the knowledge worker with another assertion map to assess the worker's reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. | 09-11-2014 |
20140272887 | INTERACTIVE ASYNCHRONOUS EDUCATION - A system for asynchronous education content delivery is disclosed. A data store comprises education content associated with a course of learning and sequence data specifying an order for presentation of the content. Education content comprises video recordings of lectures, questions, and model responses. The system receives students' requests for data, queries the database in order to identify the appropriate content, and transmits the content. The system may require that a student provide input in response to a recorded prompt in order to proceed with a planned course of study. The student's inputs are made available to other students and teachers for further review and critique. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272888 | Engaging a Plurality of Users in an Interactive Activity in an Educational Environment - Engaging a plurality of users in an interactive activity in an educational environment includes receiving information that corresponds to an annotation entered by a first user of a first subordinate device of a plurality of subordinate devices. A representation of the annotation entered by the first user while the first user is annotating on the first subordinate device is presented, using a processor, on an instructor device. Information is received that corresponds to an annotation entered by a second user of a second subordinate device of the plurality of subordinate devices. A representation of the annotation entered by the second user is presented on the second the instructor device using the processor while the second user is annotating on the second subordinate device and while the instructor device simultaneously presents the representation of the annotation entered by the first user on the first subordinate device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272889 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - A learning system including an information bus, a student information system, a content repository, a learning content management system, and a learning engine is provided. The student information system, the content repository, the learning content management system, and the learning engine each publish messages to the information bus and subscribe to messages from the information bus. The learning system may present and track the efficacy of both learning map-based course materials and traditional course materials. Methods of using a learning system and creating course learning maps are also presented. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272890 | CONFERENCING ORGANIZER - A conference mode screen is displayed on a computing device. The conference mode screen includes a list of students. A selection of a student from the list of students is received from a user. In response to the selection of the student, a list of action buttons is presented. The action buttons may correspond to actions that can be taken by a teacher during a conference with the selected student. A selection of an action button from the list of action buttons is received. The selected action button corresponds to an action taken by the teacher during the conference with the selected student. An indicator of the action is stored in association with a student identifier for the selected student and a sequence indicator. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272891 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE FITNESS TRAINING - Systems, methods, and apparatus for remote education. In one aspect, the disclosed method includes the steps of recording, at an instructor device, a lesson plan, the lesson plan including at least one lesson service identifier, associating the lesson plan with at least one student, storing, in a database accessible to an application server, the lesson plan and the at least one student association of the lesson plan, receiving, at a student device associated with the lesson plan, the associated lesson plan, determining a physical location of the student device, identifying a facility service identifier associated with the physical location, comparing the lesson service identifier associated with the lesson to the facility service identifier associated with the physical location, and revising the lesson in accordance with the comparison. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272892 | ON-LINE CUSTOM COURSE BUILDER - A custom course builder computer application allowing users to search, view, preview, and select e-learning course components based on specific achievement objectives to assemble e-learning custom courses using a repository of content and assessment items. The custom courses may be used for the particular curriculum or may be shared with other schools or institutions. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272893 | COLLABORATIVE ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE LEARNING - A system and method of e-learning involving an online asynchronous interdisciplinary project-based curriculum where students are provided with learning content relating to an interdisciplinary project and complete role-based tasks relating to the project. The students work collaboratively to complete the project thereby developing core learning skills that foster the growth of each student's social communication skills. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272894 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-LAYERED EDUCATION BASED LOCKING OF ELECTRONIC COMPUTING DEVICES - Systems, methods and computer program products for managing multi-layer rewards and multi-device control in reward-based learning experiences for users having mobile electronic devices. These technologies require that a user complete education modules using his or her mobile electronic device before receiving a reward, such as access of certain features of the mobile electronic device, one layer at a time. A more difficult education module and a bigger reward may be associated with a higher layer. These technologies also ensure that when a user has a plurality of mobile electronic devices, the user may complete an education module on one or more of these electronic devices and the user would not receive a reward from any of these electronic devices until the user has completed the education module. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272895 | COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT - A collaborative learning environment receives an assignment from a first student user identity. In response to receiving the data representing the submission of the assignment, the collaborative learning environment sends a notification that the first student user identity has submitted the assignment to a plurality of student user identities and an instructor user identity, and makes the assignment and a comment module associated with the assignment accessible to the plurality of student user identities and the instructor user identity. The collaborative learning environment receives a comment from a second student user identity in the comment module. The collaborative learning environment receives data representing an evaluation of the assignment from the instructor user identity. After receiving the data representing the evaluation of the assignment, the collaborative learning environment sends the data representing the evaluation of the assignment to the first student user identity and to the second student user identity. | 09-18-2014 |
20140272896 | Classroom Management Application and System - A classroom management system which includes a centralized cloud infrastructure, a first user interface having a geo-locating device in communication with the centralized cloud infrastructure, and a second user communication interface in communication with the centralized cloud infrastructure to define authorized users and authorized locations. The centralized cloud infrastructure transmits an in-attendance signal for each authorized user located in the authorized location based on data received from the geo-locating device to the second user communication interface. | 09-18-2014 |
20140287397 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CUSTOMIZED LESSON CREATION AND APPLICATION - A computer-implemented method according to various aspects of the present disclosure includes: retrieving, by a computer system, a lesson module from a database; receiving, by the computer system, information regarding a student; modifying the lesson module, by the computer system, based on the information regarding the student; and providing the lesson module to the student. | 09-25-2014 |
20140287398 | Computer Implemented System and Method for Statistically Assessing Co-Scholastic Skills of a User - A system and method for assessing the co-scholastic skills of users have been disclosed. The system envisaged by the present disclosure envisages screening speechless short films to individuals in order to assess their strengths and weaknesses in co scholastic areas such as attitude towards life, moral values, critical thinking skills, creative thinking skills, decision making skills, analytical skills; problem solving skills, communication skills and emotional sensitivity. The system exploits various ideas, concepts and messages imparted by the short speechless movies to enhance the co-scholastic skills of individuals. The user is required to view the short speechless film displayed on a user interface. Subsequent to viewing the short speechless film, the user is required to answer an assessment test, preferably online assessment test. Based on the answers of users to the displayed assessment questions, the user's competency in co-scholastic skills is determined by an assessment processor. | 09-25-2014 |
20140295396 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LEARNING SUPPORT - A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer executable program that, when executed, causes a computer to perform a method for learning support includes collecting a first opinion information and a second opinion information from a plurality of information terminals of a group, determining whether a representative opinion information of a group is included in a majority opinion information among collected opinion information of a first opinion information and a second opinion information, and outputting a minority opinion information among the collected opinion information when the representative opinion information is included in the majority opinion information. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295397 | FRACTAL-BASED DECISION ENGINE FOR INTERVENTION - A method/apparatus/system for educational intervention based on a response metric is disclosed. The notice is generated in response to the collection of user and question data, the sending of questions, the receipt of answers, the evaluation of the correctness of the answers, the generation of a response metric, the comparison of the response metric to a threshold, and the generation of the report or notice. The response metric can be reflect the scatter, randomness, and/or slope of student provided answer data, and can be a fractal dimension. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295398 | INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR INSTRUCTOR-STUDENT TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN - A computer system contains and displays a cartoon-like story with a plurality of displayed components (such as cartoon characters, play items, etc.) recognizable by a preschool student on a first portion of the display screen along with an accompanying voice message on the speaker. Written instructions for teachers to follow in a personal one-to-one interaction with one or more students are displayed on a second portion of the display screen. For some activities, the student may actually respond using the computer such as by touching a touch screen or using a mouse to select one of the displayed components in response to a request to select a displayed component having a predetermined aspect. For other activities the teacher enters the response of the student as observed by the teacher. When one or more correct responses are entered by the student or teacher, achievement of a goal can automatically be entered into the educational management system. | 10-02-2014 |
20140302477 | INTELLIGENT INTERACTIVE REMOTE TEACHING SYSTEM - The present invention provides an intelligent interactive remote teaching system which includes an interactive logic control unit, interactive script builder, a video player and the infrastructure. The teacher builds corresponding interactive scripts after they record the multimedia teaching video, associates the interactive scripts and the recorded multimedia teaching video, and triggers corresponding interactive content and controlling actions according to the interactive logic to realize the interaction with the learner. By using the present invention, the teacher can build the interactive script conveniently while does not know how to program. The teacher makes the repeated interactive behavior to be implemented by the intelligent interactive video, thus reduces the cost of the interactive time and space between the teacher and the learner. Further, the present invention takes the asynchronous video to integrate learning resources, that can direct the students to learn by themselves in clear targets. | 10-09-2014 |
20140308645 | CUSTOMIZED TESTS THAT ALLOW A TEACHER TO CHOOSE A LEVEL OFDIFFICULTY - An educational electronic book (e-Book) facility that may be suitable for use in public school classrooms and many other environments may be based on an encapsulated HTML technology to facilitate complete interactive operation without use or risks associated with an external network connection, such as the Internet. | 10-16-2014 |
20140308646 | Method and System for Creating Interactive Training and Reinforcement Programs - Methods and system for creating an interactive training and reinforcement programs. Training program content is delivered to training participants in accordance with a data structure representing a timeline or schedule. A graphical representation of the timeline is presented to a trainer/user to construct a training program. Training program content comprises scheduled messages in the form of emails, videos, photos, pdf files, links to databases, text messages, questions, and surveys. The content including answers to questions is weighted. The timeline is modified in accordance with weighted scoring of the content delivered and responses by participants. A network-accessible computer system ( | 10-16-2014 |
20140315177 | GRADING DEVICE AND METHOD OF REMOTE TEACHING - A grading device used for grading a remotely-taught lesson includes a table generating module, a detecting module, a timing module, and a grading module. The table generating module generates a relationship table. The detecting module detects start events of the interaction segments, a start event of the lesson, stop events of the interaction segments, and a stop event of the lesson. The timing module times the start times of the lesson and the interaction segments, and the stop times of the lesson and the interaction segments, and further records the times of the interaction segments. The grading module obtains weights of the interaction segments corresponding to the times of the interaction segments from the relationship table and grades the interaction segments. A grading method is also provided. | 10-23-2014 |
20140315178 | Group Formation and Notification in an On-Line Course System - An on-line course system involves an On-Line Course Content Serving Web Server (OCCSWS). The OCCSWS serves, or otherwise enables the providing of, on-line course materials such as textual materials and/or a video to a large number of remotely located students. The students view the course materials and take part in the classes remotely via the internet. The OCCSWS performs volunteered user data collection, thereby obtaining for each student items of first classification information. The OCCSWS performs behavioral user data collection, thereby obtaining for each student items of second classification information. The items of first and second classification information are used to group the students into groups. The OCCSWS then communicates, to each student, an indication of the group to which the student has been assigned. The OCCSWS facilitates the students engaging in group activities, monitors the students, and if necessary prompts the students to perform certain group activity tasks. | 10-23-2014 |
20140322693 | Student-to-Student Assistance in a Blended Learning Curriculum - A method of providing primary and/or secondary education using a blended learning curriculum. The method is implemented in a school comprising students of mixed-age and/or mixed-grade level. The students are provided with a curriculum that combines machine-guided teaching with face-to-face teaching. One or more of the senior students assist one or more of the junior students with the machine-guided teaching. | 10-30-2014 |
20140335498 | GENERATING, ASSIGNING, AND EVALUATING DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF A TEST - Method(s), stored instruction(s), and computing device(s) are provided for automatically generating different subsets of questions and/or automatically assigning the different subsets of questions to different test participants. The computing device(s) store information that includes test questions, test version generation criteria, and test version assignment criteria. The computing device(s) automatically determine, using the test version generation criteria, subsets of test questions that differ from each other by at least one question. The computing device(s) automatically assign, using the test version assignment criteria, subsets of test questions, which differ from each other by at least one question, to different test participants. The computing device(s) then cause administration of at least one of the different versions to at least one of the different test participants. | 11-13-2014 |
20140342340 | CONTENT CREATION IN AN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT - A collaborative learning service allows for a participant to create and share content for discussion with other participants in an online learning environment. Tagged content along with descriptive content regarding the tagged content is received from a participant. The content may be associated with a particular topic and/or forum. The content is published into a forum for discussion amongst participants. Following the publishing of the content to the online learning environment, participants, such as educators and students, may discuss, interact, and collaborate with one another regarding the content. The content may be stored in a library of topics for subsequent retrieval by any participant namely an educator. | 11-20-2014 |
20140349270 | LEARNING INTERFACES FOR LEARNING APPLICATIONS IN A MODULAR LEARNING SYSTEM - A modular learning system provides interfaces to a user device for performing a learning application. The modular learning system receives a performance request from a learning user to perform an application. The modular learning system determines whether the user is permitted to perform the learning application based on compatibility of the user and available services for the learning application. The modular learning system also determines whether the user device is capable of providing adequate instructions and whether the application is to be performed sequentially or simultaneously by several users. The learning application is performed by displaying preview, performance, and review interfaces on the user device display. | 11-27-2014 |
20140356839 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING PROCESS, PROJECT OR PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING SYSTEMS WITHIN A SEMANTIC COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL NETWORK - The system provides a framework for developing process, project or problem-based learning systems that make use of social networking. The system provides a general purpose framework to create, manage, and deliver online instruction that supports learning methods consistent with social constructivist and experiential learning theories. The framework utilizes personal social software for collaboration, problem-solving, group work, and other activities consistent with those methods. The general framework, based on finite-state automata and other methods for determining similarity of learning objectives, provides individual creators the means to define, implement, and manage experiential instruction within a social network. | 12-04-2014 |
20140356840 | COLLABORATIVE AND INTERACTIVE LEARNING - The present invention helps generate connected communities of students and educators through access to an increased pool of granular learning resources that benefit from standardization of formats for creating and utilizing individual discussions on individual topics. The present invention also circumvents the complexity of existing repository systems by creating a standard platform format. Because this format is de facto implemented for any educator using the platform, standardized question types (e.g., discussion types or topic types) become functionally interchangeable notwithstanding any particular individuals utilizing the invention. The interchangeability of individual topics allows for creation of a global “topic library,” which may be made available to any educator using the system. This global topic library contains the standardized questions or discussion topics thereby allowing for quick review, selection, and incorporation into the individual teaching environment of any teacher utilizing the invention. | 12-04-2014 |
20140363802 | FACILITATED LEARNING-STRUCTURE GENERATION USING A SEMANTIC PUBLISHING SYSTEM - An educational repository that can be made accessible to a structure-definer user (e.g., a teacher, web-page developer or editor). The structure definer can search or browse the repository to identify a subset of the content objects to include within a structure. An interface can allow the structure definer to specify inter-object relationships to include within a structure (e.g., such that a first object is to be presented to a learner prior to presentation of a second object). The structure that the structure definer generates can thus be used to determine which content objects are to be made available to learners (e.g., students, web-page visitors, readers or a structure definer herself) generally or at a given time. In this way, a structure definer can define a learning sequence that extends beyond just a general outline and controls actual object presentation. | 12-11-2014 |
20140370483 | PRESENTER SELECTION SUPPORT APPARATUS, PRESENTER SELECTION SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND PRESENTER SELECTION SUPPORT METHOD - A presenter selection support apparatus including: a display unit configured to display one or more opinions input from each of a plurality of terminals; a selection unit configured to select any one of opinions that belongs to a certain group based on a predetermined criterion when the certain group among at least one group formed by being classified from opinions displayed in the display unit is designated; and an instruction unit configured to instruct a terminal, in which an opinion other than the selected opinion is input, to display a screen in which each of a plurality of items related to relevancy to the selected opinion is selectable, wherein the predetermined criterion is a criterion used to specify any one terminal based on the number of times that one item among the plurality of items is selected in the past in each of the plurality of terminals. | 12-18-2014 |
20140370484 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING SCHOOL CLIMATE - Provided is a process for surveying students to assess school climate and, based on survey answers, providing a real-time dashboard showing school climate to teachers, such that a troubled student's problems can be addressed before the troubled student's education is impaired. | 12-18-2014 |
20140377733 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSMENT ADMINISTRATION AND EVALUATION - The present disclosure provides systems and methods relating to administration, evaluation, and review of assessments, such as quizzes and tests. According to various embodiments, a first challenge problem of an assessment may be displayed to an assessor, such as an instructor of students. The first challenge problem may include one or more answers provided by an assessee, such as a student. For example, an assessee may have answered the challenge problem by providing one or more digital ink stroke answers, a draggable object answer, and/or an annotation answer. The systems and methods described herein facilitate the automatic and/or semi-automatic evaluation of the assessee answer items. | 12-25-2014 |
20140377734 | System and Method for Computer Based Testing Using Cache and Cacheable Objects to Expand Functionality of a Test Driver Application - A system and method for computer-based testing includes a test driver that controls delivery of a computer-based test to one or more test candidates and that controls caching of test components during delivery of the test. The system includes various monitoring components, including monitoring of candidate progress, candidate performance, network bandwidth, network latency and server response, during delivery of the test and adjusting the source of the test components or the volume of the test components being cached for delivery of the test. Based upon this monitoring of the system, for example, if network communication failure is detected, the test candidate is able to continue computer-based testing while connectivity is being reestablished. | 12-25-2014 |
20150010893 | LEARNING CURVE DISAGGREGATION BY STUDENT MASTERY - Techniques are described for disaggregating learning curves by student mastery for refining and accurately evaluating automated tutoring models. A method comprises receiving performance data for users logging whether a correct response was provided for each opportunity to use a particular skill in a tutoring system, determining a plurality of subpopulations from the users by using the performance data to group by number of opportunities needed for the particular skill to reach a mastery threshold, creating disaggregated learning curves for each of the plurality of subpopulations that map performance opportunities to percentages correct, and evaluating the disaggregated learning curves to identify a suitable adaptation for the tutoring system. The suitable adaptation may then be carried out and may include sending a notification of portions of the tutoring system that need attention and/or adjusting parameters of the tutoring system for a projected learning progression of a particular user. | 01-08-2015 |
20150017625 | USER DEVICE, SERVER, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PREPARING AND REPRODUCING CONTENTS FOR DIGITAL LESSON AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A method of controlling a user terminal is provided. The method includes displaying a graphic user interface (GUI) which includes items showing a plurality of class courses which are taught based on a lesson content, and items showing a plurality of activities or materials; selecting one of the displayed items corresponding to the plurality of activities or materials in accordance with a user's input; designating the item of the selected activity or material to one of the items corresponding to the plurality of class courses; and generating the lesson content by storing the class course and lesson plan configuration information corresponding to the activity or material designated to the class course. | 01-15-2015 |
20150037779 | DISCUSSION SUPPORT APPARATUS AND DISCUSSION SUPPORT METHOD - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has a program stored therein for causing a computer to execute a discussion support method, and the method includes calculating a correlation between an opinion of a student and a plurality of agendas for each opinion of the student; forming one or more groups of the students associated with one or more of the agendas, respectively, based on the correlations of the opinions and the agendas; and transmitting the one or more of the agendas to terminals of the students in the respective groups associated with the respective agendas. | 02-05-2015 |
20150037780 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING PERSONALITY AND MOOD - The invention relates to a method for determining the personality and current mood of a subject and to a device for carrying out the method and which may be used for selecting themes for use in a spa or beauty treatment. In the method and device themes or words describing mood or personality are each represented by a word and each word is associated with a colour. | 02-05-2015 |
20150044659 | CLUSTERING SHORT ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS - A method, computing system, and one or more computer-readable storage media for clustering short answers to questions are provided herein. The method includes receiving, at a computing device, a number of short answers to a question from a number of remote computing devices. The method also includes automatically grouping the short answers into a number of clusters based on features corresponding to the short answers using a specified clustering technique. | 02-12-2015 |
20150056596 | Automated Course Deconstruction into Learning Units in Digital Education Platforms - An educational course is automatically deconstructed into discrete learning units. Content related to the course that has been stored by an integrated education platform is analyzed, and distinct concepts are extracted from the content. In addition, the learning activities in which users engage while accessing integrated learning services from the platform are recorded. These activities can generally be divided into passive, active, and recall activities. By deconstructing educational courses into individual concepts, a general model of learning is then applied that connects concepts to the activities undertaken by students to learn those concepts. As a result, a model of learning is developed where courses are atomized into individual learning units, each of which comprises a concept and at least one learning activity. The learning units then can be delivered independently or aggregated as desired. | 02-26-2015 |
20150056597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FACILITATING ADAPTIVE LEARNING BASED ON USER BEHAVIORAL PROFILES - Methods and systems for adaptively assigning a questionnaire to a user are disclosed. In one embodiment, a transactional data and log data associated with activities performed by each user of a plurality of users may be captured. The transactional data and the log data may be analyzed to retrieve a first set of parameters and a second set of parameters. A profile for each user of the plurality of users may be generated by analyzing the first set of parameters. A complexity index value of each questionnaire of the plurality of questionnaires may be determined by analyzing the second set of parameters. The profile of each user of the plurality of users may be matched with the complexity index value of each questionnaire of the plurality of questionnaires. Based upon the matching, at least one questionnaire from the plurality of questionnaires may be assigned to the user. | 02-26-2015 |
20150064680 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING THE DIFFICULTY DEGREE OF A QUESTION BANK BASED ON INTERNET SAMPLING - A system and method of providing a test may include generating, by a processor, a question having a difficulty coefficient. The processor may receive input from a participant answering the question. The processor may further measure a time for the participant to complete the question. The processor may determine whether or not to include the participant's input in adjusting the difficulty coefficient of the question, wherein said determination is based on the measured time. | 03-05-2015 |
20150064681 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING - A system for using a smartpen as a tool for automatically assessing student learning that is simple and accurate. The system has a computer with at least one processor, a memory, a storage, and communications through a protocol, one or more than one smartpen in communication with the computer and a plurality of software modules having non-transitory instructions executable on the processor for at least a characterization module, for characterizing spatial and temporal organization of a student's work, and a machine learning module utilizing the spatial and temporal organization to assess student learning. | 03-05-2015 |
20150072333 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A SECURE ONLINE TESTING ENVIRONMENT WITHOUT THE USE OF PASSWORDS - The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing a secure online testing environment without the use of passwords. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes a computer-implemented method that performs, using one or more machines, operations that include receiving a warrant number corresponding to an exam through a teacher interface; retrieving the exam corresponding to the warrant number; generating an exam ID and an exam pin number; displaying the exam ID and the exam pin number on the teacher interface; receiving the exam ID through a student interface; requesting the exam pin number at the student interface; receiving the exam pin number through the student interface; and responsive to a determination that the exam pin number is valid, initiating the exam on the student interface. | 03-12-2015 |
20150079574 | ETHNIC AWARENESS EDUCATION GAME SYSTEM AND METHOD - A game system for ethnic awareness education game play includes a video display device, a remote controller for controlling the video display device, and a video display device readable media. The media is operable to cause the video display device to: display a first question; display the correct answer to the first question; display a second question after displaying the correct answer to the first question; and terminate game play when a termination prompt is received from the remote controller. | 03-19-2015 |
20150079575 | Method and System for Facilitating Discussion of Issues Pertaining to Subject Matter Taught By A Course - A method and system are provided for finding and presenting content that is relevant to the subject matter taught by a course, and for facilitating discussion of such content in a discussion forum that is outside of a classroom. Because the content is relevant to the subject matter taught by the course, and because the content is used to initiate discussion, it is likely that the ensuing discussion will focus on issues that pertain to the subject matter taught by the course. Also, because the discussion is conducted in a non-classroom discussion forum, students may feel more comfortable expressing their thoughts and opinions; hence, students are more likely to participate in the discussion and are more likely to be engaged by it. Consequently, the method and system are likely to foster focused and constructive discussion of issues pertaining to the subject matter taught by a course. | 03-19-2015 |
20150079576 | LEARNING ASSISTANCE SERVER, LEARNING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AND LEARNING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - A learning assistance server | 03-19-2015 |
20150086961 | E-learning system and method therefor - An e-learning method is provided with allowing a teacher to use remote data processing device to communicate with users over the Internet; allowing the teacher and the users to access an online teaching database over the Internet by using the remote data processing device respectively wherein the online teaching database includes a curriculum server, an examination server, a user records server, and an academic server; allowing the teacher to access the curriculum server by using the remote data processing device; allowing the teacher to access a curriculum or a video from the curriculum server for teaching; allowing the users to access the curriculum server by using the remote data processing device; allowing the users to download the curriculum or the video; allowing the teacher to communicate with the users; and allowing the teacher to designate a user to access the examination server by using the remote data processing device. | 03-26-2015 |
20150099255 | ADAPTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT DRIVEN BY REAL-TIME IDENTIFICATION OF ENGAGEMENT LEVEL - Computer-readable storage media, computing devices, and methods associated with an adaptive learning environment associated with an adaptive learning environment are disclosed. In embodiments, a computing device may include an instruction module and an adaptation module operatively coupled with the instruction module. The instruction module may selectively provide instructional content of one of a plurality of instructional content types to a user of the computing device via one or more output devices coupled with the computing device. The adaptation module may determine, in real-time, an engagement level associated with the user of the computing device and may cooperate with the instruction module to dynamically adapt the instructional content provided to the user based at least in part on the engagement level determined. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 04-09-2015 |
20150125843 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAM, EDUCATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND EDUCATION SUPPORT APPARATUS - An education support method includes searching for first student information corresponding to a student whose evaluation score has been improved and discussion information on the basis of evaluation-score-and-group information in which the discussion information identifying a group discussion, group information identifying a group, student information identifying a student and an evaluation score of the student are associated with one another; searching for second student information including group information associated to the first student information on the basis of the first student information and the discussion information; and generating created group information that is associated with the second student information and a selected student information. Further, a computer-readable recording medium storing an education support program that, when executed, causes a computer to perform the education support method. | 05-07-2015 |
20150140541 | EDUCATIONAL QUERYING PROCESSING BASED ON DETECTED COURSE ENROLLMENT AND COURSE-RELEVANT QUERY TIME - Techniques can construct a learner's educational context (e.g., course enrollments, subject-matter interests, and/or activity involvements) and tailor query processing using the educational context. For a given query, each concept in a set of concepts can be assigned a weight. The weight can depend on a query term in the query. For example, for a query including “North America”, a “geography” concept and a “history” concept can be determined to be related to the query, and weights can be influenced accordingly. Weights can also depend on a user's educational context (e.g., such that the “geography” weight is higher when a learner is enrolled in a geography course). A query time can also be analyzed in view of schedule data (e.g., indicating when particular topics are to be studied in a course). Weights can further depend on which concepts are recently, currently or will soon be of interest based on the schedule. | 05-21-2015 |
20150310755 | Evaluating Expert Opinions in a Question and Answer System - An approach is provided for evaluating subject matter experts (SMEs) in a question and answering (QA) system. In the approach, a number of responses are received at the QA system with each of the responses being a response to a common question and each of the responses being received from a SME. One of the responses is selected with the selected response being from one of the SMEs that is being evaluated. The approach evaluates the selected response by comparing the selected response to the responses received from the other SMEs. Based on the evaluation, the approach updates a SME confidence score that corresponds to the selected SME. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310757 | METHOD AND APPARATUS ENABLING A CASE-STUDY APPROACH TO ONLINE LEARNING - A system and method for offering to a large pool of students a loosely synchronous online course that facilitates student interactions and behavior to emulate a physical case-study classroom. The large pool of students is divided into cohorts of a smaller number of students. Course content is divided into lessons and lesson content is released according to a schedule so that an individual student may progress through a course relatively independently but which prohibits a student from progressing to a subsequent lesson until a defined release date. Content within a lesson is selected in response to an interaction by the student with the content and with other students, so that interactions of a cohort with the content in a lesson influences the selection of subsequent content for the lesson, and in which interactions of a student with the stored content becomes student derived content to be shared with the cohort. | 10-29-2015 |
20150312520 | TELEPRESENCE APPARATUS AND METHOD ENABLING A CASE-STUDY APPROACH TO LECTURING AND TEACHING - A telepresence method and system for mimicking a physical amphitheater classroom for a case-study course with remote students comprising a student wall shaped and arranged to define an amphitheater in an arc, an interior of the arc defining a teaching pit, the student wall including: a video display apparatus to present an array of images arranged in groups, a plurality of student speakers, and a plurality of student perspective cameras, each of the plurality of student perspective cameras associated with and located near a corresponding student image for capturing a unique perspective view of the telepresence classroom, wherein the dimensions of the student wall and of the images in relation to the teaching pit have a geometric relationship such that from the instructor's perspective the student images are approximately life-sized and the instructor can move anywhere within the pit and maintain a line of sight with the perspective student cameras. | 10-29-2015 |
20150332598 | INTERNET-BASED EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE CORRELATION OF LESSONS, RESOURCES AND ASSESSMENTS TO STATE STANDARDS - An apparatus assists educators in selecting achievement tools to meet an applicable one of a plurality of sets of educational standards. A first table holds a plurality of educational standards and a plurality of linked keywords. A second table holds a plurality of achievement tools, such as lesson plans, assessments and resources, and a plurality of linked keywords. A table manipulator program permits an educator to select an educational standard and shows achievement tools applicable to the selected educational standard by having a matching of keywords linked to the achievement tools to keywords linked to the educational standards. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332599 | Systems and Methods for Determining the Ecological Validity of An Assessment - Systems and methods are provided for determining whether an examination prompt elicits responses of a type for which the examination prompt is designed. Word types for each of a plurality of words in a plurality of responses to the examination prompt are identified. An evaluation distribution of the identified word types is determined. Predetermined distributions stored on a computer-readable medium associated with a plurality of different response types are accessed, and the evaluation distribution is compared to each of the predetermined distributions to determine which predetermined distribution the evaluation distribution is most similar. A determination is made as to whether the most similar distribution is associated with a same response type as the type for which the examination prompt is designed. An indication is made as to whether the examination prompt is deemed to elicit responses of the type for which the examination prompt is designed. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339937 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TESTING WITH TEST BOOKLETS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Methods and systems for testing with test booklets and electronic devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a computer-assisted testing method and system is provided. A paper-delivered examination is used and includes an examination booklet and a plurality of test items. Solutions are entered into an electronic answer sheet for the test items in the examination booklet. An electronic attendance request from a student can be confirmed by granting the student access to an electronic response sheet corresponding to the paper-delivered exam. Student responses to the plurality of test items in the paper-delivered exam can be entered in the electronic response sheet. | 11-26-2015 |
20150348432 | CONTEXT-AWARE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM FOR ADAPTIVE LEARNING - One embodiment provides a system comprising at least one learner application module for receiving feedback data from at least one user via at least one electronic device, about information presented to the users by a presenter. The system further comprises at least one sensor for capturing contextual data associated with the users. The system further comprises a recommendation provider for collecting feedback data and contextual data from each learner application module and each sensor, respectively. The recommendation provider determines at least one personalized recommendation for each user based on the collected data and the presented information. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356877 | VISUAL ORGANIZATION ARCHITECTURE SYSTEM - A system and method for developing and deploying interactive learning software are each disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a system is provided for developing and deploying a non-linear presentation platform. In at least one embodiment, a method is provided for developing and deploying a non-linear presentation platform for interactive learning. In at least one embodiment, a computer readable storage medium encoded with programming for implementing the system and method is provided. The system, method, and computer readable storage medium encoded with programming each include a non-linear presentation platform that is visually presented as an interactive grid of tiles. Upon selection by a user of a particular interactive tile access to the content for that selected tile is provided. | 12-10-2015 |
20150371547 | PROVIDING TARGETED AND PERSONALIZED EDUCATION TO PREVENT HUMAN ERRORS - An embodiment comprises a method associated with a computer system activity comprising one or more tasks, carried out by one or more users. The method comprises the step of furnishing a knowledge database with one or more knowledge teachings, wherein each knowledge teaching corresponds to one of the tasks. The method further comprises implementing a procedure at selected intervals, to determine whether any user in a group of users lacks specified knowledge related to one of the tasks. Responsive to determining that a particular user lacks specified knowledge related to a particular task, a knowledge teaching is presented to the particular user which corresponds to the particular task, and includes at least some of the specified knowledge which the particular user has been determined to lack. Feedback sent from the particular user, in response to receiving the presented knowledge teaching, is then selectively evaluated. | 12-24-2015 |
20160012740 | CUSTOMIZING APPLICATION USABILITY WITH 3D INPUT | 01-14-2016 |
20160012744 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC ONLINE TEST CONTENT GENERATION | 01-14-2016 |
20160035235 | SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF FOR ENHANCING STUDENTS ENGAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY - A method and system for enhancing engagement and accountability of students are provided. The method includes posting at least one question to a plurality of user devices associated with the students; receiving, responsive to at least one question, answers from the plurality of user devices; analyzing the received plurality of answers to at least compute statistical information respective of the plurality of answers; displaying the statistical information on a display; receiving a selection of at least a portion of the statistical information; and causing a display of at least one visual representation that includes at least an identifier representative of each user represented in the selection. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042653 | TEAM MANAGEMENT FOR A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A progression collector may collect, in conjunction with displayed learning context provided by a learning management system (LMS), first learner progression data of a first learner, and second learner progression data of a second learner. A team aggregator may aggregate the first learner progression data and the second learner progression data into team progression data, and may provide the team progression data to the LMS as virtual learner progression data. A rendering engine may receive progression results processed by the LMS for each of the first learner progression data, the second learner progression data, and the virtual learner progression data representing team progression results. | 02-11-2016 |
20160063880 | ACTIVITY REPOSITORY - Techniques are described herein for storing and managing activity objects. The activity objects represent activities that are designed to achieve objectives. The activity model reflected in the activity objects allows the activity objects to be associated with objective objects that represent the objectives of the activities represented by the activity objects. A mechanism is provided to transition activity objects through various states, to allow people with various roles to each apply their own customizations to an activity before the activity is published in association with the syllabus of a particular course offering. Techniques are also described for collecting instrumentation data as users perform the activities associated with the activity objects, and for recommending activities based on previously collected instrumentation data. | 03-03-2016 |
20160071424 | Learning Network System - Apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for facilitating learning and managing an educational environment are provided. In an example, the system includes at least one processing device and at least one computer-readable storage device storing data instructions. The data instructions cause the at least one processing device to generate an online educational portal, the online educational portal including a student information system, a class scheduler engine and at least one of a presentation module, a searchable directory of curricular resources, and an analytics engine. The class scheduler engine is configured to generate class schedules. The presentation module operates to display information about various school entities. The analytics engine operates to evaluate relationships between activities users have engaged in and assessed skills of those users in various other activities. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071425 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATIONAL COURSES AND CURRICULUM - A method and apparatus for the development of educational courses and curriculum using a secure web based server computer platform and software application that aligns course outcomes and course learning objectives with core and specialized course competencies and uniquely develops course summary and compliance reports that may be used for course approval and accreditation of an educational institution. The course development software program provides a course syllabus that includes presentation summaries, textbook, video, test and other materials and assignments for a teacher to easily organize and present daily activities for the classroom. | 03-10-2016 |
20160093228 | RECORDING MEDIUM STORING EVALUATION SUPPORT PROGRAM, EVALUATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND EVALUATION SUPPORT APPARATUS - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes generating screen data for answering questions about opinion information related to a topic which is input from a first student terminal; transmitting the screen data to second student terminals; collecting answers to the questions input from the second student terminals; and calculating correct answer rates of the answers to the questions. | 03-31-2016 |
20160093229 | DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer-readable recoding medium stores a display control program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes: receiving specification of a question; referring to scenario data including a scenario in association with each question and selecting one discussion point in accordance with the sequence of the scenario corresponding to the question whose specification has been accepted; and displaying the one discussion point in a mode different from a mode of other discussion points in display of the scenario including the plurality of discussion points and displaying an answer to the one discussion point in a mode different from a mode of other answers in display of a list of answers with respect to the question whose specification has been accepted. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098937 | GENERATING QUESTION AND ANSWER PAIRS TO ASSESS UNDERSTANDING OF KEY CONCEPTS IN SOCIAL LEARNING PLAYLIST - A method, system and computer program product for determining whether the social learning playlist is effective in educating participants. The text of the collection of online materials of a social learning playlist is scanned to identify key concepts (i.e., the most important points) using natural language processing. The user selects a concept from a list of key concepts, which includes these identified key concepts, and a type of question (e.g., true/false) to be used in assessing the understanding of the selected key concept. The selected type of question and answer to the question are generated using analytic analysis and artificial intelligence on the online materials of the playlist. In this manner, by generating appropriate question and answer pairs, where the questions are inserted at selected locations within the playlist, the creator of the playlist is able to assess whether the participants are understanding the key concepts in the playlist. | 04-07-2016 |
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