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| 20080206730 | System and method of providing video-based training over a communications network - Systems and methods of providing video-based training to a computing device in a computer network are provided. Training data comprising a plurality of video segments and a plurality of questions related to the video segments is sent over a computer network. The video segments are delivered in a video stream to the computing device. The video stream is paused, and questions relevant to the previously displayed segment of the training data are displayed to a user. The user response is received and if the received data does not include a correct response, the video stream is resent from the beginning of the segment of the video training data displayed prior to pausing the video stream. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080206731 | Apparatus, Method and Computer Program for Compiling a Test as Well as Apparatus, Method and Computer Program for Testing an Examinee - An apparatus for compiling a test comprises a database having a plurality of test tasks stored therein, each test task being associated with a task type, means for selecting test tasks from the database to obtain a multitude of selected test tasks, and means for outputting the selected test tasks of the test to a user. The means for selecting test tasks comprises means for selecting, for a task type, at least one test task from the database and for taking the selected test task over to the multitude of selected test tasks if a test task for the task type is available in the database, and an exception-handling logic configured to search the database, for a task type for which no test task is available in the database, for a replacement test task according to a given replacement rule and take same over to the multitude of selected tasks. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080213739 | School-level outcome standard setting method - A standard setting method for schools including establishing a student level standard, generating a school-level standard based on a percentage of students that meet the student-level standard for performance criteria, and generating a report. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080227077 | GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM PROVIDING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AND RELATED METHODS - A geographic information system providing academic performance indicators may include a geographic information processing method including the steps of providing past academic performance data for at least one student residing in at least one geographic location having a lifestyle segmentation profile (LSP) associated therewith, and generating an academic performance indicator for the at least one geographic location based upon the past academic performance data and the LSP. The invention also provides a geographic information processing system having a database for storing past academic performance data for at least one student residing in at least one geographic location having an LSP associated therewith, and a processor cooperating with the database for generating an academic performance indicator for the geographic location based upon the past academic performance data and the LSP. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080227078 | Weighted rating process for rating a changing, subjective category - An invention used to solve the problem in rating a changing, subjective category, like a person's subjective evaluation of their experiences dating someone, tempered by the changing state of their emotions as they deal with the breakup. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080227079 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Code for Automation of Assessment Using Rubrics - A method and apparatus is provided for facilitating the assessment of entities including persons, standards, and/or environments. Contextual information, such as that representing the assessment by a teacher for a student, can be captured by a portable ingestion device and recorded onto media for processing and mapping into rubrics. Assessments can be optionally processed for further analysis. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080254429 | Instrumentation and schematization of learning application programs in a computerized learning environment - A computerized learning method is provided. The method may include receiving a write request from a first learning application program to write a learning level for a skill in a user profile. The user profile is configured to store data indicative of a plurality of skills and a learning level for each skill. The skills and learning levels are defined according to a profile schema. The method may further include writing the learning level for the skill in the user profile. The method may also include receiving a read request from a second learning application program to read the learning level for the skill in the user profile. The method may finally include retrieving the learning level from the user profile, and sending the learning level to the second learning application program. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080254430 | Parent guide to learning progress for use in a computerized learning environment - A computerized learning method is provided. The method may include receiving learning data for a user from each of a plurality of learning application programs, at a learning service program, storing the learning data in a profile of the user, in non-volatile memory accessible to the learning service program, and displaying a parent graphical user interface configured to include a parent view of learning data associated with the profile. An assessed user learning level and other learning data for a skill from the profile of the user may be displayed on the parent graphical user interface. Recommendations and statistical comparisons of the user with other users may also be displayed on the parent graphical user interface. In this manner, a parent may efficiently monitor a student user's learning activity. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080254431 | Learner profile for learning application programs - A computerized learning system and method is provided. According to the method, user performance data for a unique user may be received from learning application programs executed on a user client device. The received user performance data may be used to determine an assessed user learning level for the user. The assessed user learning level may be stored in a learner profile for the user and may be sent to a learning application program upon request. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080286737 | Adaptive Engine Logic Used in Training Academic Proficiency - The present invention is an intelligent, adaptive system that takes in information and reacts to the specific information given to it, using a set of predefined heuristics. Therefore, each individual's information (which can and is unique) will feed the engine, and then provide a unique experience to that individual. One embodiment of the present invention discussed herein focuses on Mathematics however the invention is not limited thereby as the same logic can be applied to other academic subjects. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080293030 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OFFERING EDUCATIONAL COURSES OVER A NETWORK - A software and/or hardware facility for enabling an institution to construct educational courses that may be delivered over a network is disclosed herein. The facility simplifies the construction of courses by allowing course materials to be reused and tailored on an institution-by-institution basis. Institutions may select an existing course and modify the existing course by adding, deleting, or modifying course content, sequencing, assignments, test materials, gating events, and/or course parameters. Once constructed by an institution, the course may be added to the institution's course catalog for delivery over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. In some embodiments a student is allowed to enroll in and complete a course at their own pace. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080293031 | Learning system based on biological curve and learning curve of user and method therefor - A learning system based on a biological curve and a learning curve of a user and a method therefor are provided, which utilizes the biological curve representing biological status periods of the user established by using a birth date of the user, and the learning curve corresponding to the learning status periods of the user generated by accumulating a time distribution of learning operation of the user. As for the disposition of the learning content, each content disposition control parameter corresponding to each index in the biological curve is determined with reference to the current time for the user to perform the learning operation. Next, a learning status parameter of the user is further determined according to the current time. Then, the content disposition control parameter is further adjusted with the learning status parameter. Finally, the disposition of the learning content is realized. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080318197 | Method and system for education compliance and competency management - The present invention discloses a method, system, and computer product for complete and comprehensive education competency and compliance management method and system for institutions and organizations. The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method whereby a sponsoring organization or institution need only provide secure access to the hosting organizations content delivery for ease of capture, organization of and reporting on the entire educational program. The sponsoring organization is able to direct employees to educational activities required to be completed based on the compliance requirements for their role in the organization. The hosting organization remains content independent to objectively provide the “best value” content for sponsoring organizations. Sponsoring organizations can purchase content from content partners or other third parties for loading the on-line and off-line education competency and compliance management servers, generate reports for internal use and accrediting bodies updates. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080318198 | System and method for draft selection and participation therein - A fan-based draft is disclosed whereby fans select an | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090011395 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MATCHING REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS IN EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION-RELATED ENVIRONMENTS - Systems and methods of developing online courses suited to the needs of employers are provided. A course creation module allows employers or other interested parties specify desired attributes for prospective employees using a course creation module. Online courses are developed based on these specified needs. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090011396 | PRIORITY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING STANDARDIZED TESTS - Systems and methods are provided for prioritizing the processing of standardized tests. One aspect of the present subject matter relates to a method for processing completed standardized tests. In one embodiment, test-processing priority information is received, and is associated with machine-readable identifiers for standardized tests. Completed standardized tests are received, and are identified by reading machine-readable identifiers. The identified standardized tests are processed according to the associated test-processing priority information such that higher priority tests are automatically processed before lower priority tests. Other aspects are provided herein. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090023124 | Software Application System as an Efficient Client or Case Management Tool - A web application that facilitates the interaction between an educational institution and its members for the purpose of assisting a student in need is described. The application provides an accessible and user-friendly system for members of an educational institution to provide and gather information. The application may perform various functions that allow rapid and efficient transmission of information regarding a student in need so that those needs may be addressed. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090061406 | CONSTRUCTING A PROFILE USING SELF-DESCRIPTIVE IMAGES FOR USE IN A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT - Methods and apparatus are described in which a plurality of sensory stimuli are presented to a user. A response from the user to each of selected ones of the sensory stimuli is recorded where the response is given within a period of time from the presentation of the corresponding sensory stimulus. The period of time is selected to increase the likelihood that the recorded responses are spontaneous. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090061407 | Adaptive Recall - The invention relates to a system and methods for determining user knowledge of information, calculating and employing “lag”, i.e., adaptive recall, time for delaying review and testing of the information depending on a user's progress, and/or selecting additional information to be reviewed and tested during the lag time. The present system and methods are adapted to be used in conjunction with conventional and novel computer systems and methods and provides adaptive recall therefor. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090075246 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING STUDENT'S SCIENTIFIC PROBLEM SOLVING EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS - In a computer implemented system and method for analyzing problem solving abilities, analytic models are produced to quantify how students construct, modify and retain problem solving strategies as they learn to solve science problems online. Item response theory modeling is used to provide continually refined estimates of problem solving ability as students solve a series of simulations. In parallel, student's strategies are modeled by self-organizing artificial neural network analysis, using the actions that students take during problem solving as the classifying inputs. This results in strategy maps detailing the qualitative and quantitative differences among problem solving approaches. The results are used to provide reports of strategic problem solving competency for a group of students so that teachers can modify teaching strategies to overcome noted deficiencies. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090087826 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN EXAM - A method for generating an exam is disclosed. The method includes setting initial conditions for the exam, wherein the initial conditions comprises a number of true propositions p, a number of false propositions q, and a number of random propositions r, and determining numbers of different propositions in the exam according to the initial conditions. The method further includes selecting the p number of true propositions, and numbering each of the p number of true propositions with a running number, selecting q number of false propositions, grouping the q number of false propositions, numbering each of the groups with a group number, selecting the r number of propositions, grouping the r number of propositions, numbering each of the groups with a group number. The method further includes generating an exam according to the p number of true propositions, the q number of false propositions, and the r number of propositions. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090148826 | Online system and method for motivating students to improve their grade point average - A method for motivating students to improve their grade point average using a network system, comprising the steps of inputting into the network system a student's current class schedule; generating wagering odds for the student to achieve first grades for current class schedule; communicating possible wagering odds between the network system and the student resulting in finalized wagering odds; accepting the finalized wagering odds; achieving, by the student, second grades for the current class schedule at the end of a current term; and if the second grades are at least equal to the first grades, rewarding the student in accordance with the accepted wagering odds. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090155756 | 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 |
| 20090162824 | AUTOMATED LEARNING FROM A QUESTION AND ANSWERING NETWORK OF HUMANS - A QA robot learns how to answer questions by observing human interaction over online social networks. The QA robot observes the way people ask questions and how other users respond to those questions. In addition, the QA robot observes which questions are most helpful and analyzes those questions to identify the characteristics of those questions that are most helpful. The QA robot then uses those observations to enhance the way it answers questions in the future. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090162825 | COURSE EVALUATION APPARATUS AND COURSE EVALUATION METHOD - A course evaluation apparatus includes an estimated-course-group generation portion that generates a plurality of estimated course groups for a movable body; and a course evaluation portion that performs a course evaluation on the plurality of estimated course groups with respect to at least two different evaluation criteria. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090197232 | MATCHING LEARNING OBJECTS WITH A USER PROFILE USING TOP-LEVEL CONCEPT COMPLEXITY - In a method and system for matching learning objects with a user profile, a top-level concept structure, including a keyword hierarchy for each of one or more top-level concepts, can be used to determine the complexity of a learning object. The learning object can include one or more learning object keywords related to one or more top-level concepts contained in the top-level concept structure. The learning object keywords can be assigned a complexity score based upon their location within the keyword hierarchy, and the complexity scores for all of the learning object keywords relating to a top-level concept can be aggregated to generate a learning object top-level concept complexity score. The learning object top-level concept complexity score can be compared with a user's experience rating for that top-level concept and be used to select an appropriate learning object. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090197233 | Method and System for Test Administration and Management - Methods and systems are disclosed for test administration and management. A server or server system presents an interface to a client web browser over a network. A user of the client web browser selects a test taker, a test, and a destination identifier. The server or server system may then present the test to the test taker in a call to the destination identifier. After completion of the test, the server or server system may then score the test and display the score of the test in the interface. The interface may also allow the user to play back a recording of a completed test. The interface may support multiple test takers or multiple tests. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090202967 | COMPUTER-BASED EVALUATION TOOL FOR ORGANIZING AND DISPLAYING RESULTS OF DATASET ANALYSIS - A study that has a set of questions asked of a number of respondents and a set of corresponding answers. An evaluation tool evaluates every answer to a selected question to identify key terms therein, and develops a corresponding key term cloud based on the identified key terms of the selected question. The cloud is a visual representation of the identified key terms such that each key term appears in the cloud in a relative manner based on an attribute of the key term with regard to the answers. The tool displays the developed cloud for the selected question with the answers for the selected question, and a study evaluator views the relatively appearing key terms in the displayed cloud. Based thereon, the evaluator discerns trends in the answers to the selected question. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090233262 | Method and system for computer-assisted test construction performing specification matching during test item selection - A method and system for constructing a test using a computer system that performs specification matching during the test creation process is disclosed. A test developer determines one or more test item databases from which to select test items. The test item databases are organized based on psychometric and/or content specifications. The developer can examine the textual passages, artwork or statistical information pertaining to a test item before selecting it by clicking on a designation of the test item in a database. The developer can then add the test item to a list of test items for the test. The test development system updates pre-designated psychometric and content specification information as the developer adds each test item to the test. The test developer can use the specification information to determine whether to add to, subtract from, or modify the list of test items selected for the test. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090253112 | RECOMMENDING QUESTIONS TO USERS OF COMMUNITY QIESTION ANSWERING - The present system graphs topic terms in stored cQA questions and also converts a submitted question into a graph of topic terms. Topic terms that correspond to a question topic are delineated from topic terms that correspond to question focus. New questions are recommended to the user based on a comparison between the topics of the new questions and the topic of the submitted question as well as the focus of the new questions and the focus of the submitted question. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090275009 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCHOOL PROGRESS REPORTING - A method of determining staff effect and/or school effect on the educational progress of a student attending the school comprising the steps of selecting, collecting and verifying organizational, staff, and student information; transforming the collected information into data having relationships with other collected information usable by a system; analyzing the related data to produce a computer generated value-added metric that represents the academic growth of a student; and generating a report. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090280462 | Systems and methods for goal attainment in post-graduation activities - Systems and methods are provided for electronically correlating pre-graduation student interactions with one or more post-graduation outcomes. The systems and methods comprise capturing pre-graduation student interaction data and capturing post-graduation student data. The systems and methods determine one or more post-graduation outcomes from the captured post-graduation student data, and correlate the pre-graduation student interaction data elements with the one or more post-graduation student outcomes. The systems and methods determine which captured pre-graduation student interaction data elements and/or post-graduation student data elements have increased correlation with the one or more post-graduation outcomes. Factor analysis may be used to determine which pre-graduation and/or post-graduation captured data elements have an increased correlation with the post-graduation outcomes. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090325136 | Computer-implemented environments and interfaces for educational games - Disclosed below are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for providing computer-implemented educational games. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises a system for providing a computer-based educational game environment comprising a processor, memory, and storage storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, allow a player at a first remote computer to play one or more educational games at the first remote computer and allow a thematic specialist at a second remote computer to modify content or rules of the one or more educational games. In certain embodiments, at least one of the educational games is a game that requires a player to classify patterns into groups of like patterns. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100003658 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE ON STANDARDIZED EXAMINATIONS - The method and system include presenting a user with a plurality of questions, timing the user's response time for the plurality of questions, identifying an optimal answer time where the user is able to answer a maximum percentage of questions correctly, and informing the user of the optimal answer time. An embodiment of the method may also include providing the user with a suggested change in an actual time taken to answer a question. Certain embodiments may also include weighting the chance of receiving a question in a particular topic based on the user's past performance in answering questions in that topic. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100021877 | Video Management System for Interactive Online Instruction - A system for interactive online instruction includes an instructional subscription website and video management system configured to process video recordings. The video recordings may include (i) student videos uploaded by a student and (ii) instructor videos providing feedback to said student videos. A method of interactive online instruction is also disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing prerecorded course materials on an instructional subscription website including video lessons accessible by subscribing students, and providing a video management system configured to process video recordings including (i) student videos submitted by a student and (ii) instructor videos providing feedback to said student videos. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100028844 | METHOD FOR TRANSFORMING AN UNDER-ACHIEVING STUDENT INTO A SUPERIOR STUDENT - A method of transforming an under-achieving student into a superior student comprising monitoring the student's grade level in at least one academic course and automatically terminating the student's access to at least one privilege whenever the student's grade level falls below a predetermined level. The method may also be used to reward a student that maintains a grade level above a predetermined threshold. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100041007 | Method and System for Knowledge Diagnosis and Tutoring - The present invention includes method and system for intelligent knowledge diagnosis and tutoring in any knowledge domain. It differs from prior arts with new knowledge model for knowledge presentation and heuristic algorithms. The knowledge model allows the present invention to be applied to curricula in different knowledge domains quickly and cost effectively. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100047754 | DEFINING A SERVICEABILITY ASSESSMENT MEASURE - A plurality of questions are displayed. Responses to the plurality of questions are received, wherein a response to a question included in the plurality of questions includes an indication of a likelihood of occurrence of an answer to the question. A value for a quality measure is determined, based on the responses to the plurality of questions. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100047755 | Embedded learning tool - An educational tool which is embedded within the functions of common computing devices. In the preferred embodiment, the educational tool is used as a “gateway” to a selected function or functions in a primary computing device, such as a cell phone. An educational question is presented to the user of the primary computing device. The educational question must be correctly answered before use of the selected function is allowed. The user's performance is preferably transmitted to a control computing device which can be used to monitor the user's performance. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100062409 | METHOD OF DEVELOPING AND PROVISIONING IT STATE INFORMATION OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS UTILIZING A QUESTION/ANSWER PARADIGM - A system for providing and developing information technology status information for various assets is provided. The system can comprise one or more electronic data processors configured to process, display, and manage data. The system can further include a module configured to execute on the one or more electronic data processors. The module can be configured to enable a user to pose one or more questions pertaining to the status of a particular asset in the system. Additionally, the module can be configured to parse the one or more questions pertaining to the status of a particular asset. The module can be further configured to select and conduct one or more tests to determine an answer to the one or more questions. Moreover, the module can be configured to generate and display to the user the answer to the one or more questions. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100062410 | COMPUTERIZED TESTING DEVICE WITH A NETWORK EDITING INTERFACE - The computerized testing device with a network editing interface in accordance with the present invention allows a teacher to generate customized quizzes or teaching materials for students logging into the computerized testing device to take tests through a network. The computerized testing device comprises an examination managing module, a content database, a testing module and a recording module. The network editing interface allows teachers to generate quizzes or teaching materials, and comprises a quiz database, a template database, a teacher database and a network editing interface. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100068687 | ASSESSMENT-DRIVEN COGNITION SYSTEM - A computer-based assessment driven cognition system includes, in embodiments, a generator configured to present questions, where each question presented is associated with a stacking weight and has at least one correct response, and a question property evaluator configured to, for each question presented, determine a likelihood of randomly selecting the at least one correct response. The system also includes a question response receiver configured to receive at least one response to each question presented. Additionally, the system includes a question response evaluator configured to determine, for each question presented, when the at least one response is the at least one associated correct response, a likelihood that the at least one response is a false positive. The question response evaluator is further configured to adjust the stacking weight of each question presented depending at least upon the likelihood that the at least one response to the question is a false positive. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100075288 | EDUCATIONAL CONTENT CONFIGURATION USING MODULAR MULTIMEDIA OBJECTS - Several methods and a system for educational content configuration using modular multimedia objects are disclosed. In one embodiment a system includes an authoring module of a content module to create a first meta-data associated with each of a learning object with the first meta-data describing a context of each of the learning object. The system also includes an exercise module of the content module to create an assessment format with each of user with each of the assessment format enabling an assessment of each of the user. The system also includes an import module of the content module to enable import of an audio and/or a video file of the learning object to be included with the authoring module. Further, the system includes an evaluation module of the content module to provide a feedback to an interested party and an user-score to a local authority. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100081120 | AUTOMATED QUIZ GENERATION SYSTEM - In one embodiment, an apparatus may receive metadata that is associated with content. The metadata includes event descriptors that describe events included in the content. The apparatus may generate a question based on at least one of the event descriptors. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100099068 | ITEM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - The present subject matter relates to a system for generating documents for testing and surveys. The system in various embodiments provides for generating and managing an electronic item bank The system provides for generation, administration, analyses, and processing of tests and surveys formed from items in the item bank Wherein an item includes information stored in a data structure to serve as a common source for the information for that particular item. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100105018 | PASSIVE EDUCATION METHOD AND DEVICE - A method, device, and kit that utilizes tabletop education displays to allow parents and educators to expose the basic fundamentals of Education to subjects throughout the early developmental stages of learning; then, building on the basics, exposes the subject to more complex ideas. It also has the advantage of being customized in the final stage to the interest or strength of a subject. This provides the parents or educator the ability to challenge and develop the subject in its area of interest. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100129783 | Self-Adaptive Study Evaluation - A study evaluation system used for computer-based learning uses evaluation contents arranged in a multilevel arrangement for self-adaptive study evaluation. The study evaluation system provides a present evaluation content to a user through user interaction, and determines a subsequent evaluation content or a subsequent knowledge point to be studied by the user at least partially based on the user feedback on the present evaluation content, the multilevel arrangement of the evaluation contents, and a characteristic information of the user. The study evaluation system may further establish a data set for each user to record the user feedbacks on the evaluation contents, and use the data set in combination with certain basic user information to realize individualized study evaluation. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100151430 | Identifying a body shape - A method which comprises presenting a first question which prompts a user to compare width of shoulders and width of hips, receiving an answer to the first question, presenting a second question in dependence upon the answer to the first question, receiving an answer to the second question, identifying a body shape in dependence upon at least the answers to the first and second questions and storing a body shape identifier corresponding to the body shape. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100190142 | DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT OF PEDAGOGIC PARAMETERS - Device, system, and method of automatic assessment of pedagogic parameters. For example, a method of computer-assisted assessment includes: creating a pre-defined ontology of pedagogic concepts; creating a log of interactions of a student with one or more learning activities, wherein the learning activities are concept-tagged based on said ontology; creating a pedagogic Bayesian network based on said log of interactions and based on said ontology; and based on said pedagogic Bayesian network, estimating a pedagogic parameter related to said student. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100190143 | ADAPTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING UTILIZING SMART DIGITAL LEARNING OBJECTS - Adaptive teaching and learning utilizing smart digital learning objects. For example, a system for adaptive computerized teaching includes: a computer station to present to a student an interactive digital learning activity based on a structure representing a molecular digital learning object which comprises one or more atomic digital learning objects, wherein at least one action within a first of the atomic digital learning objects modifies performance of a second of the atomic digital learning objects. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100255453 | Method and computer system of creating, storing, producing, and distributing examinations - The invention is concerned with a method of creating and producing examinations. The method is closely connected with a computer-based exam creation software that provides the user or instructor with a suite of tools, allowing the design of exam questions and solutions for a particular course. The system allows allow the interaction of various instructors and other participants in the examination creation process. In order to facilitate the educational process, the invention provides the user with a easy-to-use interface to create new examination questions and solutions. The system stores the questions and solutions in a database. Other professors, instructors, or others can use the system to review questions posed by other instructors so as to have peer review. The questions are labeled with various parameters. The instructor can then choose several parameters for the exam which he/she would like to create. The system will then generate an exam in the format desired for the particular class the exam is being created for. The ability of professors to peer review, share exams from a database, and have logic on how to construct the exam improves the educational process. Firstly, it increases the standardization of exams across courses and professors in university, primary or secondary schools, or elsewhere. Secondly, it adds a robustness to exams through peer review. Thirdly, if offers efficiency to professors in terms of exam production. Finally, the sharing of exam questions improves the quality of examinations for students. The system can also be used for other organizations or entities to share and distribute questions and solutions, including publishers, electronic devices, and television shows. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100261148 | System and Method for Educating Using Multimedia Interface - A method of educating using a virtual workstation. The method includes the steps of: providing the virtual workstation; allowing a person to access the virtual workstation to generate multimedia product; and requiring that the person complete at least one educational project to continue accessing the virtual workstation to generate multimedia product. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100266999 | USER-DIRECTED, CONTEXT-BASED LEARNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A user-directed, machine-implemented learning system may include at least one processor, a memory including instructions for the processor, and a bus for providing communication between the processor and the memory. The memory may further include instructions for the processor, including instructions for presenting a plurality of selectable categories to a user, receiving an input from a user selecting one of the plurality of categories, and retrieving at least one data item with a learning target used in context in the data item. The data item corresponds to the selected category, and the use context explains the learning target, but the learning target is independent of the category. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100273138 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF PERSONALIZED LEARNING AND DIAGNOSTIC EXERCISES - A computer-implemented method for automatically generating learning exercises, including determining a target learning item in response to an event, obtaining a knowledge level of a learner in relation to the target learning item based on a model of the learner as produced by an automated learner model, associating a level of difficulty with the obtained knowledge level of the learner, retrieving a learning exercise pattern from an exercise pattern database, automatically generating a learning exercise relating to the retrieved learning exercise pattern based on the model of the learner and the associated level of difficulty; and presenting the learning exercise to the learner via an exercise interface. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100279264 | HOLISTIC ACADEMIC SYSTEM - The holistic academic system that improves communication and interactions between users, such as administrators, teachers, parents, and/or students, by providing different perspectives—an administrator perspective, a teacher perspective, a parent perspective, and a student perspective—of a single representation of shared data without requiring users to learn how to use multiple tools or requiring that the data be converted or synchronized between multiple tools. The holistic academic system mobilizes information electronically across administrators, teachers, parents, and/or students, seamlessly producing a concise collection of shared information. Additionally, by providing different perspectives of the same information (e.g., a schedule, a grade sheet, etc.), the holistic academic system reduces user input errors and eliminates data conversion and synchronization errors. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100291527 | Kit and process for diagnosing multiple intelligences profile - A kit and process of using for diagnosing multiple intelligences profile of an individual with verbal communication limitations from observational behavior. The kit includes a diagnostic device ( | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100297596 | Automated Essay Scoring - To automatically evaluate an essay, the essay is applied to a plurality of trait models and a plurality of trait scores are determined based on the plurality of trait models. Each of these trait scores having been generated from a respective trait model. In addition, a score is determined based on the plurality of trait scores. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100304348 | EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING TOOL USING MATCHING TECHNIQUES AND METHOD OF DEVELOPING AND UTILIZING THE SAME - A training and education tool in the form of a game. The game is facilitated by software and computer means. A personal computer, including a processor, display and interface device (e.g., mouse, touch screen, haptic device, etc.), is used to implement the education and training tool. A game creation tool allows a user to create a game matrix having game positions filled with text, symbols, colors and/or static or video images. Once the game is created, a game play tool utilizes recognition, association and repetition whereby a player must align two or more matching game matrix positions by switching the position of at least two game matrix positions within the game matrix. Each successful alignment results in an award of points and/or time. Difficulty increases as a player successfully advances through timed game levels. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110027768 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR RESOLVING CONFLICT - Apparatus and methods for resolving a decision conflict without the assistance of moderator are described herein. A representative method comprises providing a party to the decision conflict with a token that represents the first option to resolve the next decision conflict. When two parties are faced with a decision having only one reasonable outcome and the parties want different outcomes, the party with the token can either make the decision and pass the token to the other party, or the party with the token can retain the token and allow the other party to make the decision. In some cases, there is no limit to the number of times the token can be passed each day or how long a party can retain the token. In some cases, the methods and apparatus are modified to allow more than two parties to resolve a decision conflict without moderator intervention. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110039243 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CHANGE IN TEST RESULTS - An apparatus for determining a change in test results includes a storage module, a pre-test module, a post-test module, a grading module and a summary creation module. The storage module stores a plurality of questions and a correct answer to each question. The pre-test module submits a group of pre-test questions to a user and receives answers to the pre-test questions from the user (“pre-test answers”). The post-test module, in response to the user being exposed to educational material related to the pre-test questions, submits a group of post-test questions to the user and receives answers to the post-test questions from the user (“post-test answers”). The grading module compares the pre-test answers and the post-test answers. The summary creation module creates a session summary including a comparison between the pre-test answers and the post test answers. The questions and answers are submitted and received over a computer network. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110059427 | Method for the computer-assisted learning of a control and/or a feedback control of a technical system - A method of computer-assisted learning of control and/or feedback control of a technical system is provided. A statistical uncertainty of training data used during learning is suitably taken into account when learning control of the technical system. The statistical uncertainty of a quality function, which models an optimal operation of the technical system, is determined by uncertainty propagation and is incorporated during learning of an action-selecting rule. The uncertainty propagation uses a covariance matrix in which non-diagonal elements are ignored. The method can be used for learning control or feedback control of any desired technical systems. In a variant, the method is used for control or feedback control of an operation of a gas turbine. In another variant, the method is used for control or feedback control of a wind power plant. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110065081 | Electrically erasable writable educational flash card - The invention provides an electrically erasable writable educational flash card comprising electronic display that displays prescribed patterns such as text characters of a language, Arabic numbers, and graphics pictures of a learning subject. Two or more of such cards comprise a youth oriented subject learning educational flash card set. Such card has a look of conventional paper flash card but with advantages: user can erase and write the displaying contents—making the learning activities more enjoyable and effective; the card is ergonomically fitful for young children to play with; and the card does not consume conventional paper, which is made from plant, trees in particular, and therefore conserves forest and environment. The invention further provides an electronic card writer for user to electrically erase and write the contents on the card's display. Alternatively, a commercially available computer or an electronic paper printer can be adapted as an electronic card writer. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110070572 | INTERACTIVE EDUCATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A digitally-based, multi-media learning center is provided for an interactive learning experience. An expert-guided digital presentation of relevant evidence-based information is provided, such as relating to medical conditions. In addition to digitally-based information, live peer-to-peer, and interpersonal interaction, including with live patients, is preferably supported to supplement the learning experience. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110081639 | Daisy Oracle of Love - An artificial daisy flower with the petals | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110111383 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT - The present invention relates to a system used for competency assessment of candidates. More particularly the present invention relates to an automated system for talent acquisition in an enterprise to identify talented candidates who meet the qualification standards specified by enterprise using a secured and light weight method of providing content including questions and responses in a distributed architecture. The data centre server of the system may connect to Knowledge centre server to receive the secure test content. The test content is transferred to one or more exam centre servers from the data centre server. The exam centre servers assess the competency of candidates connected to them via candidate console devices (computational devices), by generating unique and standardized test content for each candidate. The system enables less effort, time and consequently money, that multiple test administrators may spend traveling to different test locations to support the system infrastructure. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110123973 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUAL TEST AUTHORING AND AUTOMATION - A method of a visual test authoring and automation solution framework for an enterprise comprising supporting the creation of a test case for a visual application. First, the framework allows a user to assign a user-defined name to a test element, and select an action to be performed on the test element from a menu of actions. Second, the framework stores a mapping of the user-defined name assigned to the test element to a coded name in a corresponding language of an automated testing tool. Lastly, the system uses the mapping and the action selected to create the test case in the corresponding language of the automated testing tool. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110129808 | Self-Managed Intelligent Learning System - The present invention relates to a 360° learning system wherein the system is creating the next-generation education system, a self-managed learning ecosystem, a personalized learning context for each learner, by enabling a uniquely integrated and comprehensive digital content and process platform that has 360° span of association with respect to individual users, institutional users, domain, enablements, access, benefits and hardware (including a dedicated ‘PDA’ optimized for learning purposes to be an optional access device for students). | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110136092 | EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS - Systems, methods and apparatus for organising and monitoring education of one or more students are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a topic planner for the student comprising at least one topic category to be studied by the student and a student tracker linked to the topic planner for tracking progress by the student in studying the at least one topic category. Embodiments include a master sheet linked to the topic planner for each student, the master sheet identifying each student, a subject and one or more subject topics, and a class tracker linked to one or more of the topic planner, the master sheet and/or the student tracker for tracking progress by each student in studying each topic and each topic category. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110151422 | INTEGRATED INSTRUCTIONAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for generating a lesson plan for a course is provided that includes associating a plurality of standard objectives with the course. A plurality of learning activities are provided for selection. Each learning activity is associated with at least one standard objective for the course. A selection of at least a subset of the learning activities is received. The lesson plan is generated based on the selected learning activities. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110159472 | DELIVERY METHODS FOR REMOTE LEARNING SYSTEM COURSES - In general, the present disclosure includes delivery methods for remote learning system courses. In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting, to a remote learning management system, a request for a course associated with a course type. The remote learning management system is operable to provide a plurality of courses based on the request. Information associated with the course is transmitted to or received from the remote learning management system. The information included a delivery method. The course catalog is automatically updated based, at least in part, on the delivery method of the course. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110171621 | System and Method for Managing and Delivering Course Content to Mobile Devices - A system and method of providing an electronic course to a mobile device, comprising: capturing at least an attribute of a student for a student registration; correlating the attribute to at least a first set of course content related to that student; Providing the first set of course content related to the student; Measuring a component of the students interaction related to the first set of course content; and Delivering at least a second set of course content to the student based on the component of the students measured interaction. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110177482 | FACILITATING TARGETED INTERACTION IN A NETWORKED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT - A method and apparatus for facilitating interaction in a learning environment is provided. Based on the subject matter that a student is working on, another student is selected for interaction with the student. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110177483 | 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. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110177484 | 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. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110189643 | Programmed classroom instruction - A computer-implemented method of overseeing and adjusting the instruction and evaluation of a student with respect to one or more topics of study within a classroom. The subject matter of an academic course is studied and broken down into a plurality of discretely defined behavioral performances designed to be readily and objectively recognized as being mastered or not by a student. One or more of the discretely defined behavioral performances are then selected, with the aid of a first computerized database system, as learning objectives for the week. At the end of the week, a student is subsequently evaluated on these objectives. Results of the evaluation are then transferred to a second computerized database system, which organizes the collected data into an interactive learning management report that can be configured by a reviewer in real time to display a variety of levels of detail. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110200978 | ONLINE INSTRUCTIONAL DIALOG BOOKS - A computer implemented instructional management system enables educators to organize and integrate Internet-based or other digital content with planning, assessment, and intervention information. Interactive instructional dialog files, or simply “dialogs,” offer a flexible alternative to traditional printed textbooks in the education environment. Dialogs are assembled into a larger electronic, interactive instructional content presentation, or “Dialog Book.” Thus dialog books are comprised of instructional resource content comprising individual instructional dialogs aligned to standards for inclusion in a book chapter; and links to websites, and various other digital media content. Flexible online creation and editing of dialog books supports dynamically (a) Aligning instructional materials directly to pacing calendars; (b) Adapting instructional materials to accommodate changing educational standards and advances in knowledge within the educational materials; (c) Constructing intervention portfolios that document intervention implementation and outcomes; and other benefits. These resources can be shared electronically across classrooms, teachers, districts and even states. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110212430 | TEACHING AND LEARNING SYSTEM - A teaching and learning system includes a data store and a server computing device. The server computing device is programmed to retrieve digital data from the data store and to generate and transfer digital data across a network to user computing devices associated with users. The digital data is configured to be interpreted by the user computing devices to display to the users an interactive web site, the web site including a plurality of learning packets. Each learning packet includes a title and multiple content sections. The title includes a text description of a topic associated with an academic topic. The multiple content sections include at least one content window, where each content window includes content having a content type selected by the author of the learning packet from a plurality of different available content types. The content of each content section includes information to teach the user about the topic identified in the title. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110223574 | Directed Collaboration Platform for Online Virtual Coaching and Training - A directed collaboration virtual coach includes a repository of participant and coach profile information, enrollment records, activity records, and reports. A course campaign manager governs communication between participants, coaches, and a virtual coach. The virtual coach works alongside assigned human coaches to assist participants by auto-scaling involvement and direct contact with participants to complement optional human coaching activity and contact on a per assignment basis. A learning content management system contains online course materials and extended participant and coach profiles, collects participant activity, and provides usage reports. Courses comprise a sequence of prescribed assignments that are executed to achieve learning objectives and are organized into participant campaigns and coach campaigns. Each campaign comprises a collection of sequenced dynamic messages, including any of announcements, assignments, advices, and course materials. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110236870 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEARNING - A collaborative learning system and method, which allows a user to create and organize at least one learning path and to find consolidated content on particular subjects is provided. Also provided is a computer-readable storage medium containing a program, which when executed by a computer, performs an operation. The method includes creating one or more study items and storing electronically the one or more study items. The method also includes adding the one or more study items to a learning path, wherein the learning path is electronically stored, and wherein each of the one or more study items has an associated designation. The method further includes arranging the one or more study items within the learning path in a logical order, wherein the learning path incrementally provides information regarding a particular topic as the learning path is traversed. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236871 | Recombinant Knowledge Assimilation - In certain embodiments, a method includes accessing one or more content that each satisfy one or more parameters of a search request. The method further includes determining a plurality of knowledge components associated with the received one or more content objects, the plurality of content objects including a first knowledge component comprising a first discrete portion of information extracted from the one or more content objects and a second knowledge component comprising a second discrete portion of information extracted from the one or more content objects. The method further includes receiving first and second importance factors indicating the relative importance of the first and second knowledge components, respectively. The method further includes determining, based on the first and second importance factors, an association factor indicating the degree to which the first and second knowledge components are related to one another. The method further includes storing the first knowledge component, the second knowledge component, and the determined association as a new content object. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110256520 | SHORT IMAGERY TASK (SIT) RESEARCH METHOD - The present invention relates to biologically and behaviorally based methods of measuring audience response to a short stimulus. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110275046 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING CONTENT - The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and techniques for evaluating content, such as audio and video content. The content is presented to a respondent for evaluation. Feedback is collected from the respondent using a feedback collection device that presents different kinds of reactions to the respondent for selection during presentation of the content. Feedback is collected using a collection server and stored in a collection database. The feedback can be analyzed and summarized in a report to a pollster. Beneficially, the described methods, systems, and techniques allow for real-time collection of multiple respondent reactions, which facilitates accurate, efficient, and quick evaluation of the content. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110294105 | Contiunuity of instruction during a socially distancing event - A method wherein live, in-person academic coursework that is cancelled for extended periods due to an exigency, for example a natural disaster, pandemic, or other socially distancing event, can be quickly, efficiently, gracefully, and cost-effectively transitioned into an online environment in order to ensure academic continuity by identifying a triggering event whereby in-person academic coursework is cancelled, initiating an academic continuity process, querying a student information system for data, interfacing this student information system data with a learning management system to populate the learning management system, simultaneously scaling the learning management system utilizing a cloud computing infrastructure, and transitioning the cancelled in-person academic coursework to an online environment. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110294106 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTION, AGGREGATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FREE-TEXT INFORMATION - An interactive computer system and method collects, aggregates and distributes information derived from free-text responses to questions. The system and method collect free-text responses from a subject user and aggregates them with free-text responses from other users. The system and method then uses these free-text responses in learning methodologies (such as temporal spacing) and styles to facilitate long-term learning and knowledge retention. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110306027 | OPEN AND INTERACTIVE E-LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method are described that provide nearly universal and simple access by learners everywhere to content developed by authors everywhere to produce an e-learning marketplace. Content is stored and updated centrally and current content is distributed to local content servers via a content delivery network (CDN). A proprietary server enables interfaces and a loadable seed to a user server connected with one or more learning management systems (LMSs). Training managers subscribe to content, the author obtains payment, and the learners ‘attend’ one or more courses, the completion status and grade of which are reportable to the one or more LMSs. Security is provided as is interaction among various users of the invented e-learning system and method. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110306028 | EDUCATIONAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A decision support system and method for facilitating achievement of an educational or career-related goal is provided. The system is comprised of a decision support server and at least one client device. The system facilitates decision-making with regard to education or career goals by performing data analysis between a user-provided profile and a benchmark profile, identifying variances between parameters included in the user profile and the performance metrics included in the benchmark profile, and using a rules engine to select a recommended resource, action or series of actions. The decision server may compile the recommendations into an education guide that is made available to the user and periodically updated. In another aspect, the decision support system provides automated and advisor-assisted monitoring of a user's progress. In another aspect, the system facilitates the public viewing of parameters included in user profiles. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110318722 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAREER INTEGRATED ONLINE LEARNING - An online system enrolls students and manpower resources and connects to a suitable careers based on their back-ground, skills and choices and provides appropriate learning with appropriate assessments to connect/map suitable careers to the student while learning. Allows clients to provide requirements along with related position specifications to compare, check, and engage resources for a position. Provides automated learning content with metrics including interactive automated assessments to train resources to make them ready for the particular job and engaged, should there be a requirement to undergo training as part of the requirement. Education centers having multimedia based PCs are connected to a centralized system having a database and application that connects a student, requirements, and client to impart learning before the resource is allocated to the position. Secured network is deployed with a centralized software to seamlessly deliver training, job engagement and allocation, fee based registration and enrollment, and assessments. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120034589 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EDUCATING AND INFLUENCING AN INDIVIDUAL - A method and apparatus for influencing a person to develop, accept and/or understand a concept, position or idea using questioning, including a technique sometimes known as the Socratic Method. A universe of question and answer subsets comprising questions and respective multiple choice answers to each question designed in advance, arranged and inter-connected on a stand-alone computer, a computer on a local area network or computer network, or any computer network and displayed in such a way as to allow the participant to follow the individual's own path by selecting answers he accepts, which tend to logically lead the individual toward agreement and or understanding on the subject. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120045744 | Collaborative University Placement Exam - An exemplary proficiency examination system includes a collaborative system allowing multiple administrators across multiple educational institutions to add questions to a bank of questions from which an administrator at a single educational institution may select for a proficiency examination. The questions may be used in a placement examination for placing students into a class of an appropriate skill level. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120077173 | SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING ASSESSMENT WITHOUT TESTING - A system for educational assessment without testing is provided that includes one or more client systems that are connected to a network allowing students or school officials to communicate with an education framework that performs and manages educational assessment. The one or more client systems issue a message to the education framework requesting a task to be performed. The educational assessment is administered independent of one or more educators so as to avoid interruption of instruction time. A server system receives the message and the education framework proceeds to process the contents of the message. The education framework includes a plurality of programming modules being executed on the server system that provides to educators specific information used for the educational assessment based on the contents of the message. The programming modules assist in calculating and determining one or more parameters for the educational assessment of the students as well as providing specific reports to educators as to the progress of the students. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120077174 | COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT TOOL - Core competencies of a participant, such as an employee, is assessed using a competency assessment tool. A developer defines core competencies for any of a variety of topics and develops questions and demonstrative tasks for respective learning objectives under the core competencies. Participants, in turn, perform the demonstrative tasks that are evaluated by an observer and provide responds to the questions. A score is calculated based on the evaluation and response to determine how well the participant exhibits the learning objectives and the competency of the participant is assessed, which is communicated to the participant. A recommendation is made to an administrator to create a development plan when the participant's score falls below a predetermined threshold. In certain embodiments, the participant is a subject matter expert that validates a nexus between the learning objectives and the questions and demonstrative tasks. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120077175 | TIME-INDEXED DISCUSSION ENABLED VIDEO EDUCATION - A computer-implemented system and method for presenting video with time-indexed discussion comprising program instructions stored in memory. The program instructions are executable by a computer processor to store a video on a video server, and store at least one discussion on a database, each discussion being associated with a video time index. The video is streamed from the video server to a user device. At least one discussion is transmitted for display on the user's device when the video time is within a pre-specified range of the video time index for the discussion to be displayed. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120088216 | Systems and Methods for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Treatment - A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a system are provided. A plurality of multi-level cognitive exercises are provided to an individual. Each of the multi-level cognitive exercises includes at least one task to perform. The individual is requested to respond to a cognitive exercise in the plurality of cognitive exercises by performing the at least one task contained in the cognitive exercise. A response provided by the individual to the cognitive exercise is monitored. Based on the monitoring, a determination is made whether the individual performed the at least one task at a predetermined performance level, wherein the performance level is defined by the at least one task contained in the cognitive exercise. Based on the determining, the individual is requested to perform at least another task. At least one activity for the individual to perform is generated. The at least one activity is based on responses to the multi-level cognitive exercises by the individual. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120094264 | Method for Loss Prevention with a Specialty in MIDI by Means of an Online Learning and Training Academy - The present invention educates about loss prevention through a learning and teaching program that certifies trainees in teaching English, MIDI, and loss prevention. Through learning English and MIDI, a trainee can help a safer community by increasing driver safety awareness and reducing crime by gaining knowledge about civil rights. The present invention also allows trainees to learn through one-on-one apprenticeships with working professionals and therefore obtain job training much earlier than traditional schooling. Also, the academy helps trainees learn self-control and self-expression through their various learning and educating techniques. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120107786 | METHOD OF CREATING A FOUNDATIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN MODEL FOR SHAREABLE CONTENT OBJECTS - A method is provided for creating a foundational instructional design model for shareable content object (SCO) by pre-defining a semantically structured reusable learning type (RLT), and joining individual or repeated RLT's with sequence or choice indicators to form an instructional design model. The instructional design model is itself a semantically structured document that can be used and reused to create SCOs. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120107787 | ADVISORY SERVICES NETWORK AND ARCHITECTURE - Systems and methods are provided to implement an advisory services network that enables organizations to identify complex business problems from apparent business problems, immerse a diverse group of people in the businesses of the organizations, and promote collaboration to develop viable solutions to the complex business problems. An enterprise organization can supply case studies of real-life scenarios, data, ethnographic interviews to convey multiple views of problematic areas, etc., to enable members of the diverse group of people to immerse themselves into the problem space, participate in creative communications, such as discussions, and brainstorm potential solutions. Further, the advisory services network can include a gaming platform on which instances of serious games can be developed and deployed. The serious games enables sharing of ideas among players, discussions among players, and other player interactions to facilitate compounding of perspectives and solutions among a diverse group while providing an entertaining and through-provoking environment. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120122067 | ONLINE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM WITH MENTOR GUIDED LEARNING - An educational system assembling platform comprising a digital processing device connected to a computer network and a computer program, provided to said digital processing device via said network. The digital processing device comprises an operating system configured to perform executable instructions, a central processing unit, a memory device, a display, an input device, and a sound output device. The computer program includes executable instructions that create an educational environment. The educational environment comprises at least one area of skill, interest, or expertise, a plurality of learning activities associated with each area of skill, interest, or expertise, and a mentor guided learning mode. The mentor guided learning mode comprises a software module, adapted for a mentor, for selecting one or more learners, a software module, adapted for a mentor, for selecting learning activities from among said population of activities to create one or more subpopulations of activities to be completed by a learner, and a software module, adapted for a learner, for displaying and providing access to one or more subpopulations of learning activities to be completed by a learner. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120129143 | System and method for generating a plot of a digital print - There is provided a system and method for generating a plot of a digital print. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method includes presenting a micro event of the digital print, the digital print having a plurality of micro events, each micro event having a plurality of outcomes and polling for user input for the micro event while presenting the micro event. The method further includes determining an outcome of the micro event based on the polling for user input and selecting a scenario from a scenario map based on the outcome of said micro event. Finally, the method includes generating a storyline of the plot based on the scenario selected from the scenario map. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120129144 | Computer Aided Apparatus and Method of Learning - A learning device for students of all classes consisting of a virtual tutor. It comprises of hardware and software system with inbuilt internet. The tutor application is a software instructions executed in the central processing unit that reads the course contents stored in the hardware storage and gives the audio visual output to the learner. The device acts as an educational tool and provides assistance for assimilating the subject material. The device or system consists of inbuilt internet facility with internet browser and tracks user's activities. The user's activities get analyzed and user's profiling is generated for records and sent to parents. The device or system consists of search filter to prevent accessing of foul or irrelevant contents. Attachable Solar panels help operate the device when there is no electricity or in rural and remote regions where there is no electricity. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120148996 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING THE IDENTIFICATION OF SUITABLE OBJECT-WIPING MATERIAL AND DISPENSER THEREFOR - A method for facilitating the identification of suitable object-wiping material and dispenser ( | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120148997 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CUSTOMIZING EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS - The invention provides a method, system, and program product for preparing customized educational materials. The invention may include, for example, receiving input from a user regarding the user's preferences for educational materials, retrieving core educational materials from a repository, accepting dynamic educational materials, and assembling the customized educational materials using the core educational materials, the dynamic educational materials, and the user's preferences. The invention may further include scheduling the delivery of the customized educational materials to a user. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120171654 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRESENTING TOPIC-SPECIFIC BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION OF A USER - A question-and-answer application that displays topic-specific biographical information about users when presenting certain content elements is described. The topic-specific biographical information for a user may be displayed in various contexts, such as with an answer to a question on a question page for the question, or with information identifying a user who is following a question or a topic. With some embodiments, a user's topic-specific biographical information may be provided by the user, provided or suggested by another user, or obtained from an external data source. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120196261 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A COMPUTERIZED LEARNING SYSTEM - There is a computerized learning system and method which updates a conditional estimate of a user signal representing a characteristic of a user based on observations including observations of user behavior. The conditional estimate may be updated using a non-linear filter. Learning tools may be generated using the computerized learning system based on distributions of desired characteristics of the learning tools. The learning tools may include educational items and assessment items. The learning tools may be requested by a user or automatically generated based on estimates of the user's characteristics. Permissions may be associated with the learning tools which may only allow delegation of permissions to other users of lower levels. The learning system includes a method for annotating learning tools and publishing those annotations. In-line text editors of scientific text allow users to edit and revised previously published documents. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120196262 | Methods and Systems for Obtaining Profile Information from Individuals Using Automation - Methods and systems obtain profile information from individuals using automation to select and provide the questions that are given to the individual. The answers the individuals provide to the questions can then be used to generate the profile information. Subsequent questions are selected and presented according to analysis of the previous answers. The exchange of the questions and answers occurs over a communications network and may take the form of emails, web page interfaces, wireless data messages, or verbal communication over a voiced call. The answers are analyzed to determine certain characteristics, such as the personality type, mood, and gender of the individual. The subsequent questions are selected based on the characteristics that are found from the answers to facilitate the information exchange between the automated system and the individual. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120202183 | Controlled Release Survey and Methods Thereof - The present disclosure pertains to a computer-implemented method for presenting a survey session to survey respondents, the method having: triggering a start event, obtaining session information, storing the session information, transmitting the session information to a host server, determining whether a survey associated with the session information has been previously created, selecting a question set to present to the respondent, incorporating a question set into a question panel, presenting the question panel to the respondent in a controlled manner, selecting an answer to the question, creating an answered question, and storing the answered question as a survey result. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120202184 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SELECTING EXERCISES - To provide a fast and systematic selection of exercises for a training plan of a user, the invention proposes a method and device for selecting exercises, each of a plurality of exercises (E | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120208163 | COLLABORATIVE INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD AND SYSTEM - A system and method for comprehensive, fully or partially automated instructional plan creation, management, and tracking is provided. Variations of the system may include specialized computer systems, specialized applications, or web-based server-side solutions. Variations of the method may include generation of integrated or course-based instructional plans based on a relationship between standards and indicators of educational success and an academic schedule divided into schedule units. Instructional plans may be populated with learning and teaching resources from a content repository. Such population may be automated, customized, based on user settings, and otherwise configurable on a per-instructor basis. Instructors may also load content into the repository, associate content with one or more identifying parameters, and collaborate with each-other based on teaching style and resource choices. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120219938 | Process for Analyzing Effectiveness of a Course of Study - A method for analyzing the student's performance in a course for an individual student and/or for a group of students' to identify a plurality of learning objectives, designing a plurality of course requirements and determining student's achievement. The learning objectives, course requirements and student achievements are then combined and may be compared with prior or subsequent courses. During this analysis the learning objectives are identified based on knowledge and skills that a student will gain as achievements, while the performance of the student based on students achievements are measured and calculated | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120244505 | 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. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120244506 | 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. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120258434 | CONTROL OF SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR LEARNER RESPONSE SYSTEM - There is disclosed a method, in a learner-response system comprising a computer system and a plurality of user terminals adapted to communicate with the computer system, the method comprising: providing a presentation application adapted for displaying a set of questions associated with a learner-response session via a user interface of the presentation application; providing a learner-response application adapted to be responsive to inputs received from the plurality of user terminals; wherein the method further comprises: forwarding inputs detected by the presentation application as being associated with a learner-response session to the learner-response application; processing such inputs at the learner-response application. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120264098 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSOLIDATING AND SEARCHING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - An application for a method and system providing educational seekers a search tool that finds education opportunities across a large number of educational/training providers. The search tool finds courses and/or programs of interest such as certifications, vocational programs, two-year programs, four-year programs, MBA programs, certain financial aide features, specific course offerings, specific sports programs, placement success, etc, The system includes educational software robots called edu bots that visit educational program hosting web sites of the various educational/training providers, extracting information regarding the programs, courses, faculty, financial assistance, sports programs, location, extra-curricular activities, etc. The information is then stored in a common, searchable database for later searching by the educational seeker. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120270199 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSESSING LATENT TRAITS USING PROBABILISTIC SCORING - A method and system for assessing a latent trait such as a psychiatric disorder in a test subject. The method includes receiving a test subject's responses to test items that are administered to the test subject to elicit the responses from the test subject. An initial first sub-region probability of the test subject lying within a first sub-region of a first latent trait is determined from the test subject's response to the initial first test item. A subsequent first sub-region probability of the test subject lying within the first sub-region of the first latent trait is then determined using the test subject's response to the subsequent first test item to ascertain a conditional response probability, and using the initial first sub-region probability as a prior first sub-region probability. The method and system can be used to more accurately and/or more rapidly assess one or more latent traits in a test subject. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120270200 | Electronic Flash Card Device and Method of Use Thereof for Passive Learning - The electronic flash card device is an apparatus that allows a user to complete a learning objective without a conscious effort. A plurality of such apparatuses is positioned throughout the areas that the user occupies daily. The user then passively views, remembers, and learns a plurality of teaching points that are displayed on the apparatus. Each teaching point has an initial portion, which is shown first, and has associated portion, which is shown second along with the initial portion. For example, if the user knows English and wants to learn Spanish, then the initial portion would be a word in English and the associated portion would be the same word in Spanish. The apparatus can also be used to learn simple arithmetic by first showing the arithmetic problem and then showing the arithmetic problem with its answer. The apparatus continuously displays the plurality of teaching points in a timed sequence. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120322043 | ADAPTIVELY-SPACED REPETITION LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD - An adaptively-spaced repetition learning system and method facilitate the learning of material over time through the presentation of the material at ever-increasing intervals. Embodiments of the system and method present a stimulus-response pair to a student to obtain a binary response that is either correct or incorrect. The token is next presented to the student based on the student's response. If the response is correct, then the token is presented to the student based on the initial repetition interval without modification. If the response is incorrect, then the learnedness value is reset and the progression through the repetition intervals is restarted. In some embodiments, the initial repetition intervals are dynamically adjusted based on the student's response to obtain revised repetition intervals. This is achieved by manipulating the exponent of the mathematical term representing the curve of the repetition intervals. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120329025 | METHODS FOR RECORDING AND DETERMINING A CHILD'S DEVELOPMENTAL SITUATION THROUGH USE OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR MOBILE DEVICES - Systems and methods for measuring and improving a young child's mental abilities on a tablet computer. A user of the tablet computer is prompted for the child's age and, based on the age, the expected performance or abilities of the child are provided. The child can be assessed using a number of activities whereby the child identifies and/or matches various objects. The assessment can be done by timing the activity to completion, determining how many errors/tries were needed to complete the activity, or any other number of assessment techniques. The child's performance is then compared against expected metrics for children of a similar age. The activities can range from games that involve identifying everyday objects to the introduction of mathematical concepts and numbers to identifying and/or matching animals. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120329026 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING LEARNERS WITH AN ALTERNATIVE TO A TEXTBOOK OR SIMILAR EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL - System and method for providing new educational material to one or more learners comprising analyzing the words or images used in one or more items of original educational material to determine the topics covered in the original educational material, identifying the topics covered in the original educational material, identifying the order in which the topics are presented in the original educational material, creating a list of the topics covered in the original educational material and the order in which they are presented, searching available databases and publically known sources for content on the topics covered in the original educational material, compiling the content on the topics covered in the original educational material to create a new educational material that covers the topics of the original educational material and providing or providing access to the new educational material to one or more learners. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20120329027 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A LEARNER INTERACTION PROCESS - System and method for a learner interaction process comprising receiving information regarding one or more learners, receiving information regarding the educational material that the one or more learners would like to learn, presenting more than one question regarding the educational material prior to presenting the educational material to the one or more learners, receiving answers to the more than one questions presented to the one or more learners, presenting the educational material to the one or more learners, identifying the amount of time the one or more learns reviewed the educational material, presenting and receiving answers to more than one question regarding the educational material that the one or more learners has reviewed after the educational material has been presented to the one or more learners, and determining whether the one or more learners learned the educational material presented based on the one or more learners answers to the questions. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130004928 | REACTION TRAINING APPARATUS AND METHODS OF USE - The present invention includes a reactive training apparatus and methods of training designed to utilize special physical-preparation means to develop and/or enhance a sport-specific or task-specific motor ability. The reactive training apparatus includes a display which displays target objects and clutter objects. A trainee reacts to these objects in various ways, and these reactions may be recorded and analyzed to improve the trainee's reactions. The present invention may be used to enhance the biomechanical efficiency, reaction time, and accuracy of a trainee. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130017522 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING A LEARNING SESSIONAANM Nguyen; ChrisAACI BaltimoreAAST MDAACO USAAGP Nguyen; Chris Baltimore MD USAANM Hoehn-Saric; ChrisAACI MiamiAAST FLAACO USAAGP Hoehn-Saric; Chris Miami FL USAANM Clinton; LeeAACI BaltimoreAAST MDAACO USAAGP Clinton; Lee Baltimore MD US - A learning system includes at least one student workstation in a first learning environment which holds a learning session for a student. The system generates and displays primary instructional material to the student in accordance with student profile data for the student. The system causes supplemental material or content to be generated and displayed to the student at the student workstation when a downtime interval is triggered. The system generates the instructional material in accordance with the student profile data for the student. The system allows the student to seamlessly continue the learning session in a second, different learning environment. The system further allows the student to seamlessly complete the learning session in a third, different learning environment. The disclosed system thus enables students to work in various different learning environments and reduce the impact of interruptions in the learning experience. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130017523 | UTILIZING FAILURES IN QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEM RESPONSES TO ENHANCE THE ACCURACY OF QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEMS - A method of enhancing the accuracy of a question-answer system. Missing information from a corpus of data is identified. The missing information is any information that improves a confidence for a candidate answer to a question. A follow-on inquiry is generated. The follow-on inquiry prompts for the missing information to be provided. The follow-on inquiry is output to an external source. A response to the follow-on inquiry is received from the external source. The response is added to the corpus of data. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130017524 | UTILIZING FAILURES IN QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEM RESPONSES TO ENHANCE THE ACCURACY OF QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEMS - A computerized device for enhancing the accuracy of a question-answer system. The computerized device comprises a question-answer system comprising software for performing a plurality of question answering processes. A receiver receives a question into the question-answer system. A processor that generates a plurality of candidate answers to the question is connected to the question-answer system. The processor determines a confidence score for each of the plurality of candidate answers. The processor evaluates sources of evidence used to generate the plurality of candidate answers. The processor identifies missing information from a corpus of data. The missing information comprises any information that improves a confidence score for a candidate answer. The processor generates at least one follow-on inquiry based on the missing information. A network interface outputs the at least one follow-on inquiry to external sources separate from the question-answer system. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130022953 | METHOD AND PLATFORM FOR OPTIMIZING LEARNING AND LEARNING RESOURCE AVAILABILITY - A platform and method for improving learning within a learning model uses a mathematical optimization algorithm to maximize learning gains through efficient resource allocation that accounts for practical constraints, such as teacher or other resource availability, and probability of success for individual learners on learning nodes given learner profile and resource and instructional configurations. One practical output from this platform and method is a schedule that contains an assignment of learners to learning nodes and teaching resources by learning session over the course of several days. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130022954 | CONVERSATIONAL QUESTION AND ANSWER - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facilitating online conversation. In one aspect, a method includes determining that a user has submitted a question to be viewed by trusted participants of an online conversation, wherein the trusted participants include the user, one or more advertisers and one or more social network friends of the user, obtaining a reply to the question from one of the trusted participants, and providing the reply to the trusted participants. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130029306 | Active learning system and method for game based learning and training - An active learning system for use by at least one participant comprises a plurality of learning modules whose contents together make up a predetermined corpus of knowledge to be learned, a corresponding plurality of sets of training modules, each of the training module relating to a corresponding one of the learning modules, and rules prescribing a sequence of events constituting an editing session. The events comprise, for the or each participant, selecting at least some of said learning modules individually and successively, for each selected learning module selecting one of the set of related questions for the participant to answer, and recording progress of said at least one participant from a learning session start towards a learning session finish according to whether or not said at least one participant answers the selected ones of the set of related questions correctly. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130029307 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER QUESTION-ANSWERING - A method and system for computer question-answering. The method includes: receiving a plurality of the questions to be trained, and obtaining a candidate answer set for each question; determining part of the questions to which the candidate answer sets include correct answers, and using first feature sets of the candidate; obtaining a first mathematical model, which is used to compute a first confidence degree that the candidate answer is a correct answer; computing first confidence degrees of the candidate answers of all the questions to be trained, and for each question, extracting a second feature set related to the first confidence degrees and the first feature set; and obtaining a second mathematic model, which is used to compute a second confidence degree that the candidate answer is a correct answer based on the second feature set. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130040275 | Method for Educational Instruction - A method for education is provided. The method includes providing content about an educational subject and technology skills to a learner via a computer network with feedback and assistance available as the learner acquires knowledge. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130059282 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING, CERTIFYING OR MONITORING HUMAN CLINICAL RATERS - A method and system are disclosed for computerized training, monitoring, certification or re-certification of human raters in clinical trials. The invention provides an interactive computerized interview that can be compared scores obtained by human raters to monitor and train clinical raters on a continuing basis in order to reduce rater drift and variance during clinical trials. Remediation can be automatically flagged or provided to improve a deviating rater's performance. Computerized assessment of symptom severity is provided without the need for human clinical raters. The system and method enable screening of prospective patients for inclusion or exclusion from a clinical trial by automatically obtaining computerized ratings of symptom severity. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130084552 | WAGER GAMING VOTING LEADERBOARD - Disclosed herein are techniques and equipment for providing a voting point leaderboard system. Players playing wagering games may be awarded voting points for use in a poll with a plurality of candidates in exchange for game-play related activity. Players voting for the winning candidate in the poll may be given an award. Polls may include candidates which may be involved in a real-world contest. Players may be rewarded for voting for the candidate which wins the real-world contest. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130089847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING eLEARNING SYSTEM DATA AND GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS - According to one aspect, an online learning system comprising a processor adapted to provide a monitoring module, a recommendation module and a communication module. The monitoring module is operable to monitor system data about one or more components of the online learning environment wherein the system data is indicative of behavior of one or more users of the learning environment. The recommendation module is operable to determine whether the system data for a given component meets one or more defined thresholds, each threshold being indicative of undesirable behavior associated with that component, and if one of the given thresholds is met, determine at least one remedial action associated with that threshold which may be employed to address the undesirable behavior. The communication module is operable to communicate information about the at least one remedial action to at least one user. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130095461 | COURSE SKELETON FOR ADAPTIVE LEARNING - A method and apparatus for utilizing a course skeleton for adaptive learning is provided. Based on student profile information and course goal information, a query is generated to dynamically determine which learning items should be presented to the student. The query, which is based on a particular learning goal, may differ from student to student, and therefore different students may be presented with different learning items to achieve the same learning goal. In addition, as new learning items is added to the learning item repository, the learning items returned by the query for a particular learning goal may change, even if the query used for the goal does not. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130095462 | UNIVERSAL TEST AND QUESTIONNAIRE SYSTEMS - Examples of systems and methods for creating, managing, and administering test, questionnaires, or both, are described. Described systems and methods may also provide for reporting and profile analysis. Language support may be provided such that tests or questionnaires may be administered in different languages, and reports may be generated in a same or different language as the language used to administer the test or questionnaires. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130095463 | CONTENT AUTHORING APPLICATION - This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for authoring content for e-learning courses, such as network-enabled (e.g., Web-based) education courses. Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) provide an instructor with user interface elements to manage online course content. Using the GUIs, the instructor can create in-session and self-paced courses that can be delivered over a network to any number of student operated client devices. The instructor is provided a suite of editing tools that can be used to create and edit pages of content for a course, including adding links and multimedia, information pages, posts and course materials. The GUI can include a side bar that can display descriptors that can be used by the instructor to navigate pages of the course. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130095464 | ELECTRONIC LEARNING APPLICATION - Systems, methods, and computer program products for accessing e-learning courses from an online resource are disclosed. Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) allow students to enroll in online courses or collections of other media (e.g., video files, presentations). The courses can include in-session and self-paced courses. The courses can be delivered over a network to any number and types of student operated devices. An e-learning application running on the student-operated device provides various user interface elements that allow the student to browse, select, enroll and interact with online courses. In some implementations, the GUIs provide a display object (e.g., a virtual spiral-bound notebook) that includes tabs that can be selected by the student to navigate pages of an online course to access information, materials, posts and notes. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130122479 | PARENT COLLABORATION PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY - A method of aiding in the educational success of a student includes conducting a first meeting with parent(s) or guardian(s) of the student and a predetermined team of teachers. A communication encouraging the same stakeholders to attend a series of recurring meetings includes nonthreatening community type words. A school administrator synchronizes the schedules of at least the team of teachers with the recurring meeting schedule. The method includes conducting each of the recurring meetings at the predetermined location in an informal way in order to encourage building a collaborative relationship between the team of teachers and the parent(s) or guardian(s), wherein the recurring set of meetings at the beginning of the school year include discussions which focus on expectations, various course assignments, and grading, and wherein the recurring set of meetings as the school year progresses includes discussions focused on student achievement. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130122480 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF APPLYING INTERMITENT REINFORCEMENT TO STUDENT DURING INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY - A method and system for instructive reinforcement for a learner. The method comprises the steps of a) identifying a learner requiring external reinforcement for maintaining focus on an instructional activity; b) determining a reinforcement for the learner for use as an intermittent reinforcement during an instructional activity; c) defining at least one of a frequency and a duration of the intermittent reinforcement to be utilized during the instructional activity; d) performing the instructional activity; e) periodically interrupting the instructional activity, with the intermittent reinforcement, to refocus the learner back to the instructional activity; f) continuing performance of the instructional activity; and g) repeating steps e) and f) until the instructional activity is completed. A system incorporating the method is also disclosed. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130157242 | GENERATING AND EVALUATING LEARNING ACTIVITIES FOR AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT - An educational activity system allows a teacher to specify activity parameters, such as subject, grade level, and template format that define an activity for one or more students to complete on a computer. The system then uses the selected activity parameters to determine appropriate subject matter from a content asset database and generates an activity incorporating the determined appropriate subject matter. After a student completed the activity via a computer, the system evaluates the completed activity for correctness and stores the results of each student in a student performance database. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130157243 | Systems and Methods for Obtaining Prioritized User Input - According to the invention, a system for receiving input from a user or users, the input indicating the relative priorities of different concerns is disclosed. The system may include at least two interfaces. The first interface may display a plurality of categories of concerns and receive a selection of one of the categories and then display a plurality of concerns associated with the selected category. Selection and prioritization of these concerns may be received for each category. A second interface may display the top priority concern of each category and allow selection from these top priority concerns an overall top priority concern. The second interface may allow the user to then select a second overall top priority concern from the remaining top priority concern of each category. The process may repeat to produce an overall priority of any number of concerns across all categories. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130171604 | ASSESSMENT TOOL AND GRADED ACTIVITY FOR FINE-GROSS MOTOR SKILLS, VISUAL AND COGNITIVE PROCESSING - A timed assessment and graded activity, allows professional staff, occupational therapist, school psychologist, physician (neurologist and pediatrician), and the like, to assess their patients in various areas. The assessment and graded activity can be used for motor skills, including fine-gross motor coordination and hand speed. The assessment and graded activity can also be used for assessing vision, including color, eye-hand coordination, crossing midline, left or right side neglect, and eye movements, crossing midline and left-right side neglect. Furthermore, the assessment and graded activity can be used for determining cognitive skills, including processing, concentration, attention deficit, problem solving, and ability to follow instructions. The 21-piece challenge as an assessment and graded activity designed to use a set of wooden dowels with its respective board. The 21 pieces of wood dowels contains five pieces of a first color, four pieces of three other colors, and two pieces of two other colors. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130177893 | Method and Apparatus for Responding to an Inquiry - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for responding to an inquiry from a client via a network. The method and apparatus receive the inquiry from a client via a network. Based on the inquiry, question-answer pairs retrieved from the network are analyzed to determine a response to the inquiry. The QA pairs are not predefined. As a result, the QA pairs have to be analyzed in order to determine whether they are responsive to a particular inquiry. Questions of the QA pairs may be repetitive and, without more, will not be useful in determining whether their corresponding answer responds to an inquiry. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130183649 | METHOD FOR GENERATING VISUAL MAPPING OF KNOWLEDGE INFORMATION FROM PARSING OF TEXT INPUTS FOR SUBJECTS AND PREDICATES - A method for performing relational analysis of parsed input is employed to create a visual map of knowledge information. A title, header or subject line for an input item of information is parsed into syntactical components of at least a subject component and any predicate component(s) relationally linked as topic and subtopics. A search of topics and subtopics is carried out for each parsed component. If a match is found, then the parsed component is taken as a chosen topic/subtopic label. If no match is found, then the parsed component is formatted as a new entry in the knowledge map. A translation function for translating topics and subtopics from an original language into one or more target languages is enabled by user request or indicated user preference for display on a generated visual map of knowledge information. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130196305 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING QUESTIONS - A computer-implemented method and apparatus for generating questions. The method comprises receiving a rule; dynamically generating a graph representing a question, the graph comprising one or more nodes, each node associated with a rule having one or more variables; sampling a value from the value domain for the variable; and synthesizing a textual representation of the graph. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130203034 | Computer System and Method for Training, Certifying or Monitoring Human Clinical Raters - A method and system are disclosed for computerized training, monitoring, certification or re-certification of human raters in clinical trials. The invention provides an interactive computerized interview that can be compared scores obtained by human raters to monitor and train clinical raters on a continuing basis in order to reduce rater drift and variance during clinical trials. Remediation can be automatically flagged or provided to improve a deviating rater's performance. Computerized assessment of symptom severity is provided without the need for human clinical raters. The system and method enable screening of prospective patients for inclusion or exclusion from a clinical trial by automatically obtaining computerized ratings of symptom severity. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130224713 | ENHANCING KNOWLEDGE BASES USING RICH SOCIAL MEDIA - Methods and arrangements for developing knowledge bases from social media. A question is obtained from social media. Social media are consulted, and a legitimacy of the question is ascertained. All the answers to the question are harvested from the social media including the rich media that is associated with these answers, and the question is filtered out if determined not to be legitimate. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130224714 | ENHANCING KNOWLEDGE BASES USING RICH SOCIAL MEDIA - Methods and arrangements for developing knowledge bases from social media. A question is obtained from social media. Social media are consulted, and a legitimacy of the question is ascertained. All the answers to the question are harvested from the social media including the rich media that is associated with these answers, and the question is filtered out if determined not to be legitimate. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130224715 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING LEARNING BY CORRELATING STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING TECHNIQUES WITH PHYSICAL METAPHORS IN AN EDUCATIONAL COMPUTER GAME - A system and method for optimizing learning and retention of items learned over time maps bodies of knowledge to physical metaphors in an education computer game or simulation. Entire structured curricula or curriculum frameworks are mapped to isomorphic physical metaphor hierarchies. Recommended sequences through subject matter are mapped to sequences in the physical metaphor of the game or simulation. Various algorithms for computing the Ebbinghaus “spacing effect” for reviewing items about to be forgotten by a student to optimize retention of subject matter are mapped to physical metaphors in the game or simulation. The use of a “predator-prey” computer algorithm to find students' subject matter knowledge weak points is mapped to a physical metaphor. Similarly, devices to enhance the student's learning curve, such as to induce perseverance, or raise motivation via competition, or via praise from an authority figure, are mapped to physical metaphors in the game or simulation. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130230840 | LEARNING SYSTEM ACCESSORY USING PORTABLE HANDHELD DEVICES - In view of the foregoing, an embodiment herein provides a learning system accessory (herein referred as LSA) which can be integrated with a portable handheld device and use the resultant system as a learning tool for kids. In an embodiment, a keypad including plurality of keys is provided in the LSA. The keys can be divided into a number of categories depending on their function. Further, an “Apps” key is provided to segregate the LSA-supported Apps from the other Apps available on the portable handheld device. The keys in the keypad the can be mapped according to the user's need, such that the pressing of a certain key would launch a specific App. In addition, LED indicators provided on the LSA can be customized to respond in a certain manner, as decided by the learning application running on the portable handheld device. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130230841 | Respondent Selection for Surveys - Exemplary embodiments are directed to respondent selection approaches for surveys, such as online surveys. The respondent selection approaches can be provide a selection process that is source independent to select individual respondents based on characteristics of the individual respondents, rather than based on characteristics of the source (e.g., group) with which the respondent is associated. Exemplary embodiments can advantageously use an estimate of a propensity score to select respondents for a survey before the survey is conducted. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130230842 | EDUCATION ORGANIZATION ANALYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT SYSTEM - Methods and systems for school analysis and improvement are disclosed. A computerized system is provided that is accessible to remote parties through a computer network and that are controlled by a managing entity. An option is presented to the administrator to administer surveys and diagnostics via the computerized system. The surveys and diagnostics request data regarding performance of the school as well as data responsive to the surveys and diagnostics. The data responsive to the surveys and diagnostics and the performance data are stored into a database managed by the managing entity. An administrator of the school is presented the responsive data and the performance data, and thereafter, data is received from the administrator describing one or more desired objectives for the school. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130236875 | CHOICE GENERATION METHOD FOR NUMERICAL MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION - A choice generation method for a numerical multiple choice question comprises steps: establishing a numerical multiple choice question, and obtaining a correct numerical answer of the numerical multiple choice question; determining the number of numerical choices for the numerical multiple choice question; and generating a plurality of the numerical choices either greater or smaller than the correct numerical answer according to a choice-answer relationship. The present invention applies to generate numerical choices for a numerical multiple choice question, and the generated numerical choices are different from the numerical correct answer. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130236876 | Generating Visually Enhanced Question Topic Repetition Learning Content - A method performed by one or more processing devices, comprises: displaying, through a graphical user interface, test information in a layered structure; wherein a first layer in the layered structure is configured to display the test information following selection of a control in the graphical user interface; wherein a second layer in the layered structure is configured to display the test information following a display of the test information in the first layer; receiving, through the graphical user interface, one or more answers to one or more questions received in the test information; and generating, in response to receiving, information indicative of a test score. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130244215 | OPERATING DEVICE AND GUIDING LEARNING METHOD FOR EARLY EDUCATION - An operating device for early education is provided. The operating device includes an operating console comprising a plurality of various keyboards around an edge of the operating console used for receiving keystrokes, a data transceiver used for transmitting encoding information corresponding to keystrokes to a portable device and receiving activation controlling information from the portable device used for activating a keyboard, and a plurality of controlling keys used for receiving selection controlling information and transmitting the selection controlling information to the portable device by the data transceiver. Advantageously, the operating device includes a plurality of various keyboards that is independent of the portable device, which is convenient for children's operation/input. Additionally, a plurality of various keyboards are provided, advantageously, more learning content interacted by means of the various keyboards can be provided by the application programs via the portable devices. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130244216 | Pop-up Content for Figurative Expressions and Complementary Related Trivia - An educational and fun computer process in which a user selects a figurative expression displayed on a screen. The figurative expressions are, for example, metaphors, allusions, puns, double entendres, anagrams, cropped terms, and other nonliteral terms. A pop-up space instantly appears that presents educational content about the figurative expression. A complementary related trivia is presented in various possible formats to enliven the learning experience. The complementary trivia can be related to the figurative expression, or the associated information displayed on the screen, or the educational content, or the trivia itself. The educational content can be, for example, meanings, reference materials, literary reviews, interpretations, and images or moving images. The reference materials are, for example, dictionary entries like definitions, senses, parts of speech, antonyms, and etymologies. The educational features are options used to help a person learn about figurative expressions, and the entertaining trivia is there to be enjoyed. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130260351 | CALENDAR-DRIVEN SEQUENCING OF ACADEMIC LESSONS - A system that delivers a sequence of learning objectives to a student in accordance with one or more target dates. The target dates may be set by an academic institution, a teacher, or a parent of the student. The system adjusts the sequence of learning objectives based on the target dates assigned to one or more of the learning objectives. The system estimates how long it will take for the student to progress through a sequence of learning objectives and notifies an administrator if the student is behind schedule. The notification to the administrator may include recommendations for remedial actions. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130295544 | COMPUTER-BASED MATCHING AND SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR EDUCATORS OF BLENDED LEARNING PROGRAMS - A computer-based matching system for educators based on specific criteria related to blended instructional practices. The system promotes collaboration around blended learning initiatives and the use of digital/online resources to support instruction. Subscribers wishing to be matched with other educators may complete a questionnaire about courses that they have taught or are currently teaching. Matching criteria may include course information and the current use of digital resources and technology. The information from the questionnaire will be entered into a database. The subscriber will be able to view system-generated matches, or other educators who have implemented/are implementing the same or similar type of instructional model with the same or similar restraints, such as the number of devices (computers/tablets) available in the classroom and the current instructional delivery model. Once subscribers have been matched, they will be able to view their matches' profiles, invite matches to of their Professional Learning Community, and message matches directly through the system. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130302772 | ELECTRONIC LEARNING SYSTEM - A question item comprising: textual, visual or auditory subject matter; a query or instruction pertaining to the subject matter; and a representation of a response mechanism for receiving a user response to the query or instruction, may be retrieved from a data store. The subject matter, query or instruction and response mechanism may be presented in a presentation sequence, wherein a presentation duration of each of the subject matter, query or instruction and response mechanism is controlled by user input. Based on the user input, a presentation duration of each of the subject matter, query or instruction, and response mechanism may be determined. Each of the three presentation durations may be stored. A completion time may be determined based on one or more of the presentation durations and may be stored along with response accuracy, for use in calculating a user competency measure for the question item. An algorithm for advancing through an electronic learning curriculum comprising multiple question items may also be provided. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130323704 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSMENT OF FLUID INTELLIGENCE - A computing device determines a matrix reasoning assessment (MRA) to assess fluid intelligence of a user operating a client computer/device. The MRA includes a matrix having designs in design spaces, where the designs form one or more patterns. The matrix has one or more design spaces in the matrix that are missing a design. Examples of a design include, without limitation, a number, a letter, a symbol. a shape, a picture, an image, a photograph, an icon, an animation, a video, audio, or any other symbol, character, or representation that can be used in a pattern. In one embodiment, the computing device transmits the matrix to the client device. The user responds with a design for the “empty” design space (i.e., the design space previously missing a design) and the computing device receives this design selection. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130330703 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING SURVEYS - A method, a system, and a computer program product for creating and conducting a survey are disclosed. While creating the survey, one or more answer formats corresponding to each of the one or more questions are defined. Then, answering mediums corresponding to each of the one or more answer formats are defined. The survey is then created based on at least one of the questions, the answer formats, and the answering mediums. The survey is then available to the associated users. While conducting the survey, the system receives answers for the questions in the survey through the answering mediums in their associated answer format, and compiles a survey report. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130337428 | LEARNING CONCEPT ORGANIZER - The present invention is a learning organizer for assisting a learner. The learning organizer comprises a sheet having a front portion and a rear portion, the sheet folded substantially along a central line to form a first half and a second half, a plurality of flaps located on the first half, a plurality of holes provided along and proximate to the central line and punched through the first half and the second half, a plurality of lines on the rear portion and a plurality of fill-in-blanks pre-printed on the second half to write details of the learner. Each of the plurality of flaps includes a plurality of perforations and a plurality of scorings. The plurality of lines is provided for neat writing. The learning organizer allows the learner to write down learning information into each of the plurality of flaps so as to present, organize, learn and memorize learning concepts. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130344468 | Obtaining Structured Data From Freeform Textual Answers in a Research Poll - A research polling system obtains structured data from freeform text answers in a research poll. The system includes a database of objects that may represent answers to a research poll. The system presents a research poll to a user, where the research poll includes at least one freeform text field among the answers in the poll. A user answering the poll provides a partial user input to a research poll question in the text field. In response, the system searches for objects in the database that match the user's input, and optionally also based on the question. If one or more matching objects are found, the system presents the matching objects in a listing interface, from which the user may select an object for the answer to the poll question. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140004495 | ENHANCING POSTED CONTENT IN DISCUSSION FORUMS | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140004496 | DYNAMIC EVOLVING VIRTUAL CLASSROOM | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140017652 | MEMORIZING MECHANISM FOR ENHANCING AND IMPROVING A PRESENTATION BY A SPEAKER, PROFESSIONAL PERFORMER, OR STUDENT - This application is a one-person learning device to facilitate memorization in a series of reward features, hints, and personalized choices that might be color-coded by level of difficulty, a rate-limiting timer feature, and/or a wireless teleprompter-like feature. It removes assistance of a second person in the method of prompting actors, speakers, orators, performers, and students for a word. It may highlight and/or auto-reveal publicly available text or personally inputted text word by word. A portion of the dictation to be received by the subscriber can be predetermined, time-limited, list-defined, and color-coded, described in the embodiments above or any combination of the Memorizing© game, with additional feature to improve and/or enhance the memorizing prompting experience. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140030686 | CURRICULUM ASSESSMENT - One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for curriculum assessment are provided herein. One or more assessments can be generated. For example, an assessment can be generated based on one or more forms. In this way, assessments can be created in a structured manner and distributed accordingly. One or more of the assessments may be administered. After one or more students or test takers take the assessments, one or more of the assessments can be analyzed or aggregated. Analysis can include statistical analysis related to one or more similar, related, or associated assessments. In this manner, curriculum assessment can be provided, thereby enhancing teaching efficiency and productivity, etc. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140045162 | Device of Structuring Learning Contents, Learning-Content Selection Support System and Support Method Using the Device - A device of structuring learning contents includes a lesson state data acquisition unit acquiring data of a state of a lesson given by displaying the learning content using an electronic blackboard and a server connected to the electronic blackboard, the lesson state data acquisition unit and a database through a network, in which the server has a lesson state data analysis unit extracting a feature amount of the lesson from the lesson state data, a type classification unit analyzing the feature amount of the lesson and classifying the lesson as a lesson type and an attitude type, a content evaluation unit evaluating the learning content from the feature amount of the lesson, and a content-tag data generation unit giving a content tag including content tag data based on the analysis/evaluation result to the learning content to structure the learning contents. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140057239 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FACILITATING ONLINE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERS - Methods and systems for facilitating online knowledge transfers. The methods and systems may include receiving content, including learning opportunities and learning information from a plurality of sources and transforming the source format of the received content into a common system format when the source format of the content does not match the system format. In addition, the methods and systems include filtering and indexing the content and populating a data repository with the indexed content in the system format. The methods and systems include transmitting a content feed with the content in the system format for generation on an output mechanism. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140065590 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING EDUCATION SERVICE BASED ON KNOWLEDGE UNITS - According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for providing education service based on knowledge units is provided, comprising the steps of: (a) generating a curriculum based on a user's achievement for at least one knowledge unit, said curriculum including at least one problem composed based on said at least one knowledge unit; and (b) providing said at least one problem to said user. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140093856 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A USER WITH ADVISORY INFORMATION - According to embodiments, a method for providing a user with information includes storing one or more pieces of advisory information and identification information of each of the advisory information, recognizing a request for advisory information from the user, forming, on a sheet, the advisory information requested by the user, an image corresponding to the identification information of the requested advisory information, and an input region in which feedback from the user can be provided, scanning the image formed on the sheet and the input region in which the user has provided the feedback, and storing the feedback in association with the corresponding advisory information. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140120510 | METHODS and SYSTEMS for ENCOURAGING END-OF-LIFE PLANNING - A method for encouraging end-of-life planning. The method includes accessing a computer server having a computer-readable storage medium. The method further includes retrieving a plurality of web documents from the computer server. Each web document includes at least one question directed to end-of-life issues. The method further includes entering data into the web documents. The data is configured to be at least one answer to at least one of the questions. The method further includes incorporating the at least one answer into a template configured to be easily understood. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140134588 | EDUCATIONAL TESTING NETWORK - Systems and methods are disclosed for serving fresh media content while minimizing Internet traffic by periodically checking content freshness between a local server and a remote server; if a stale content exists on the local server, replacing the stale content with a fresh content from the remote server; and serving the fresh content from the local server. The system also tests the student by adaptively modifying the predetermined testing level based on the diagnosis of each testing group and repeating tests at the adaptively modified predetermined testing level for a plurality of sub-tests. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140141399 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FEATURE MERGING FOR OPEN DOMAIN QUESTION ANSWERING - Methods/systems receive a question and automatically search sources of data containing passages to produce candidate answers to the question. The searching identifies passages that support each of the candidate answers based on scoring features that indicate whether the candidate answers are correct answers to the question. These methods/systems automatically create a scoring feature-specific matrix for each scoring feature. Each scoring feature-specific matrix has a score field for each different combination of text passage and question term (vector), and each score field holds a score value (vector value) indicating how each different combination of text passage and question term supports the candidate answers as being a correct answer to the question. Next, such methods/systems automatically combine multiple such vectors to produce a combined vector score for each of the candidate answers, and then rank the candidate answers based on the combined scores. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140162235 | DETERMINING INDIVIDUALS FOR ONLINE GROUPS - The disclosed subject matter relates to encouraging an individual to assume a leadership role associated with an online group relating to a subject matter. In one innovative aspect, the disclosed subject matter can be embodied in a method. The method includes determining a leadership score corresponding to an individual. The leadership score corresponds to a level of correlation between the individual and a leadership role associated with an online group relating to a subject matter. The method further includes providing, based on the leadership score, an invitation to be sent to the individual, inviting the user to assume a leadership role associated with the online group. The method further includes receiving an indication of an acceptance of the invitation. The method further includes assigning to the individual, based on the received indication of the acceptance, the leadership role associated with the online group relating to the subject matter. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140193790 | Early Alert System and Method for Identifying and Assessing Students in Need at an Educational Institution - The present invention relates generally to the field of increasing retention rates in an educational institution while significantly improving the educational experience of its students. More particularly, the present invention provides means for proactively identifying students in need, whether the need is emotional, physical, spiritual, or scholastic, and providing an avenue to assist those students. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140205985 | Method and Apparatus for Responding to an Inquiry - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for responding to an inquiry from a client via a network. The method and apparatus receive the inquiry from a client via a network. Based on the inquiry, question-answer pairs retrieved from the network are analyzed to determine a response to the inquiry. The QA pairs are not predefined. As a result, the QA pairs have to be analyzed in order to determine whether they are responsive to a particular inquiry. Questions of the QA pairs may be repetitive and, without more, will not be useful in determining whether their corresponding answer responds to an inquiry. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140272884 | Reward Based Ranker Array for Question Answer System - Mechanisms are provided for configuring a ranker array of a question and answer (QA) system. An initial configuration of a ranker array of the QA system is generated which comprises a plurality of rankers with each ranker applying a statistical classification function to candidate answers generated by the QA system. A training question is input to the QA system to generate a training candidate answer set and the ranker array is applied to the training candidate answer set to generate, for each ranker in the ranker array, a ranked listing of candidate answers. For each ranker in the ranker array, a correctness of a corresponding ranked listing of candidate answers is determined and the ranker array is reconfigured based on results of the determined correctness of the corresponding ranked listing of candidate answers for each ranker in the ranker array. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140272885 | LEARNING MODEL FOR DYNAMIC COMPONENT UTILIZATION IN A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM - Mechanisms are provided in a data processing system for utilizing algorithms based on categories in a question answering system. The mechanisms capture a history of performance and correctness metrics for identifying efficiency of respective algorithms for finding answers to questions in respective question categories in a question answering system. The mechanisms determine sets of algorithms to use for respective question categories according to efficiency and correctness analysis. The mechanisms determine a question category of a given input question and execute a set of algorithms corresponding to the question category of the given input question that meet an efficiency threshold to contribute to finding a correct answer for the given input question. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140287396 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSOLIDATING AND SEARCHING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES - An application for a method and system providing educational seekers a search tool that finds education opportunities across a large number of educational/training providers. The search tool finds courses and/or programs of interest such as certifications, vocational programs, two-year programs, four-year programs, MBA programs, certain financial aide features, specific course offerings, specific sports programs, placement success, etc, The system includes educational software robots called edu bots that visit educational program hosting web sites of the various educational/training providers, extracting information regarding the programs, courses, faculty, financial assistance, sports programs, location, extra-curricular activities, etc. The information is then stored in a common, searchable database for later searching by the educational seeker. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140322692 | METHODS FOR ONLINE EDUCATION - The present invention is generally directed to a variety of tools, programs and methods for presenting or enhancing an online learning environment for a student viewing or participating in an online learning session. One embodiment is directed to a method of matching instructors and students by utilizing commonalities (or lack thereof) with a social media site and by having the student take a personality test to determine how the student learns most efficiently. Another embodiment is directed to a method of certifying instructors that want to teach an online course. And yet another embodiment is directed to a method presenting an online learning session to students using and toggling between varieties of viewing formats. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140329218 | Computer-Based Tutoring Method and System - Disclosed are a computer-based tutoring method and system in which an animated tutor, an animated avatar, and at least one animated group member selected by a user are displayed on a screen. A tutorial is presented by the animated tutor. During the tutorial, an interactive question is presented. An answer is received from the user. If the answer is correct, the tutorial continues. If the answer is incorrect, a second tutorial is presented. The second tutorial is based on the incorrect answer received from the user. Dialogue between the animated tutor, the animated avatar, and the animated group members may be held. Dialogue among animated group members may be held. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140342339 | PERSONALIZED TESTING OF LEARNING APPLICATION PERFORMANCE IN A MODULAR LEARNING SYSTEM - A modular learning system is provided for providing learning users a plurality of learning applications. On occasion, learning users may wish to develop personalized testing systems to determine the learning user's progress. In the modular learning system, individual learning applications are selected by the learning users. The learning applications include learning content and are provided to the user with a learning facility, tutoring user, and other learning services. The personalized testing systems allows learning users to construct personalized testing for the user comprised of particular learning applications for performance by the learning user. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140349269 | SIGNALING DEVICE FOR TEACHING LEARNING DEVICES - Various embodiments for conducting proxy teaching for learning devices within a decentralized system, including an embodiment method with operations for obtaining, by a teacher signaling device, objectives data related to activities of one or more of the learning devices, generating, by the teacher signaling device, teaching routines based on the obtained objectives data, and broadcasting, by the teacher signaling device, teaching signals configured to teach one or more of the learning devices based on the generated teaching routines. Other embodiments may obtain objectives data by requesting reflex information from the learning devices or intercepting event report messages transmitted by the learning devices. Other embodiments may include broadcasting discovery signals to identify nearby learning devices and modifying teaching routines when objectives of the generated teaching routines cannot be achieved. Other embodiments may include transmitting an authorization request to a user device to determine whether to broadcast teaching signals. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140356837 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN INTERACTIVE LEARNING MAP ON LEARNING MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - Disclosed is a system and method for enabling a student to achieve a proficiency level in a first learning grade on a learning management platform. A learning map generator is configured to generate an interactive learning map comprising a plurality of nodes on the learning management platform. The learning map generator is configured to form a layer comprising a first content object and a first assessment object on a first node of the plurality of nodes. Further, the learning map generator is configured to selectively embed on the first layer a plurality of content objects and a plurality of assessment objects from a Data Store using a recommendation engine. A visualization engine is configured to display the interactive learning map to the student and an instructor. The instructor evaluates the performance of the student accessing and attempting the plurality of content objects and the plurality of assessment objects respectively on the interactive learning map. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140370479 | Enhancing Cognition in the Presence of Distraction and/or Interruption - The present disclosure relates to methods and tools for enhancing cognition and improving well being in an individual. The methods involve presenting to an individual a task to be performed, presenting to the individual an interference, and receiving inputs from the individual. Where the interference is a distraction, the individual is to ignore the interference. Where the interference is an interruptor, the individual is instructed to respond to the interruptor as a secondary task and is said to be multi-tasking. Inputs are then also received from the individual pertaining to this secondary task. The methods encompass iterations of these presentating steps and receiving of the input, and generation of analysis and/or feedback to the individual. The methods can further include conducting an analysis and/or generating feedback to the individual. The analysis can include a comparison of the performances with or without each type of interference. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140370480 | STORAGE MEDIUM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING - A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for information processing includes evaluating plural learning models; displaying an evaluation result of the evaluation; selecting a first learning model from the displayed plural learning models; estimating attribute information to be applied to document information, in accordance with the first learning model; and executing learning by using at least one of the plural learning models while the document information with the estimated attribute information applied serves as an input. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140377732 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING VIDEO PATHWAYS WITHIN AN ONLINE COURSE - An online school provides video courses to students that are made up of an unordered group of video segments. The path sequence and quantity of the video segments from the group displayed to each student may be different and are determined by various factors including the student's previous knowledge, style of learning and course criteria. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150050633 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS - Systems, methods, and computer program products for displaying multiple applications on a graphical user interface (“GUI”) are provided. An application control system (“ACS”) may determine which applications should be displayed, and ACS may determine an optimal layout for the application on the GUI. ACS may move and/or resize the applications and automatically determine an optimal layout such that the applications substantially fill a portion of the GUI. Additionally, ACS may facilitate communication between the applications using an application programming interface (“API”). An application may obtain information from any other application on the GUI by transmitting requests via the API. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150056594 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING EDUCATIONAL INPUTS - A computer-implemented method for measuring educational inputs is described. A plurality of educational inputs are obtained. The inputs may include at least one formal educational input and at least one informal educational input. A value for each educational input is determined. Each determined value is normalized with respect to other determined values. An educational achievement is determined based on at least one of the determined values. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150056595 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS - A device for diagnosing and treating psychiatric disorders is described. The device may be configured to provide a graphical user interface that enables a user to select at least one of: entering information related to a diagnosis of the psychiatric disorder and alleviating symptoms caused by the psychiatric disorder. Upon a user selecting entering information related to the diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder, the device may receive information related to the diagnosis of the psychiatric disorder. The device may determine the severity of a user's condition based at least in part on the received information. The device may provide a treatment based on the determined severity of the user's condition. A treatment may include providing feedback to a user. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150072331 | SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL SERVICES - A system and computer program product for providing educational services. The system includes a plurality of remote computers, a central server, a network interface in communication with the central server and the plurality of remote computers over a network, a shared database in communication with the central server. The network interface is configured to provide educational services. The central server is configured to receive and store educational information in the shared database. The educational information includes a plurality of outlines and a plurality of animation data. The outlines include one or more topics. Each topic has one or more elements, and the one or more elements are linked to one or more of the plurality of animation data. The central server is further configured to load the linked one or more animation data from the shared database when the user selects at least one of the one or more elements corresponding to the linked one or more animation data, and play the loaded one or more one or more animation data on at least one of the plurality of remote computers. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150072332 | TESTING SYSTEM - A testing system includes apparatus and methods of testing a subject according to a forced-choice scheme. The scheme is based on Thurstonian Item-Response. Theory and is particularly relevant to personality assessment. The invention provides dynamic test generation and scoring for efficient testing of subjects using unique tests. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150086960 | GUIDING CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF ASSESSMENT ITEMS - A method for guiding a user in a construction of an assessment item includes identifying a requirement of the assessment item, filtering a plurality of documents in accordance with the requirement to produce a set of relevant documents, presenting a workflow for use in constructing the assessment item, wherein the workflow is based on the set of relevant documents, and presenting a set of questions for use in validating, by the user, that a proposed assessment item meets the requirement. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150099254 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing device including a content analysis unit configured to analyze a group of content by setting individual pieces of content included in the group of content as nodes of a graph structure and a link between the pieces of the content as a link of the graph structure, and a learning support information generation unit configured to generate learning support information that supports learning of knowledge provided as at least a part of the group of content based on a result of the analysis. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150104777 | CONTEXT-SENSITIVE AND LOCATION-AWARE ADAPTIVE LEARNING TO IMPROVE TEST EFFECTIVENESS - A context-sensitive and location-aware adaptive method and device. The method includes determining user's information relating at least one of context or location, adaptively altering at least one of data and image based on the determined user's information, and presenting the altered information. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150111191 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING EDUCATION SERVICE BASED ON KNOWLEDGE UNITS - A method for providing education service based on knowledge units includes generating a curriculum based on a user's achievement for at least one knowledge unit when the curriculum includes at least one problem composed based on the at least one knowledge unit, and providing the at least one problem to the user. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150125842 | MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS, ONLINE EDUCATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EDUCATION CONTENT THEREOF - A multimedia apparatus and a method for providing content thereof are provided. In the method for providing content of the multimedia apparatus, user private information corresponding to authentication information of a user is acquired when the authentication information of the user for execution of content is received, a state of the user using at least one sensor is detected during reproduction of the content, a parameter of the content is changed according to the acquired private information and the state of the user, and the content is reproduced with the changed parameter. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150140540 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PORTABLE TERMINAL, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - There is provided an information processing apparatus that readily supports to provide hardware resources for implementing ICT education in the field of education. The information processing apparatus includes a device information receiver that receives, via a network, device information for identifying a device connected to a portable terminal, an education application selector that selects, based on the device information, an education application to be provided to the device, and an education application provider that provides the education application to the device via the network and the portable terminal. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150147740 | ENTROPY-BASED SEQUENCES OF EDUCATIONAL MODULES - Techniques disclosed herein can determine sequences for educational units by evaluating entropies of multiple potential sequences and biasing selection of next units towards those associated with high sequence entropies. Further, an analysis can determine which units are under-represented (relative to a target proportion) in a past sequence and bias towards inclusion of an under-represented unit in the sequence. The available units that are considered for potential selection can include those matched to a learner's skill (e.g., such that all pre-requisite units have been mastered but the unit itself has not been mastered). Thus, techniques can generate sequences of units that promote unit variation and nonetheless conform to relative unit frequencies and skill level appropriateness. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150310754 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION INCORPORATING REINFORCEMENT-BASED LEARNING AND FEEDBACK - Systems and methods are provided for feedback-driven provision of information in relation to a plurality of information resources. Some such methods involve: accessing information resources from one or more information resource repositories to establish a mapping between each information resource and each of the other information resources; maintaining a state table comprising a plurality of state-table records, each state-table record attributing a value to a state-action pair, the state-action pair comprising an indication of a series of one or more actions in relation to the information resources; monitoring actions of a first user in relation to the information resources; receiving a feedback metric related to interaction of the first user with the information resources; using the feedback metric as a basis for updating the values of a subset of the state-table records, the subset of the state-table records comprising state-action pairs which correspond to the monitored actions of the first user in relation to the information resources; and providing output information related to the information resources based at least in part on the updated values of the state-table records. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150325133 | INTELLIGENT DELIVERY OF EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES - A computer-implemented method for generating educational materials for a user includes a computer receiving a user data item representative of educational interests of the user. The computer extracts a plurality of words from the user data item, classifies the user data item into a related knowledge domain, and determines a frequency score for each of the plurality of words. The computer uses frequency score determined for each of the plurality of words to select a plurality of educational material items associated with the related knowledge domain. Next, the computer determines a similarity score for each of the plurality of educational material items indicative of each respective educational material item's similarity to the user data item. The computer uses the similarity score for each of the plurality of educational material items to select a subset of the plurality of educational material items. The computer presents the subset of the plurality of educational material items in a graphical user interface. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150325138 | TEST PREPARATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The present invention relates to systems and methods for improved test preparation and learning, including improving test-taking and time management skills for any test or performance on a test. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention are configured to provide users with pace analysis and tracking, adaptive real-time pacing feedback, and adaptive real-time exam tutoring, for both question content and test-taking strategies. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150364050 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED CONTENT REPOSITORY AND DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR ONLINE LEARNING - A computer-implemented content repository and delivery system for online learning comprises an authoring module, a learner database, and a runtime engine. The authoring module stores in the content repository learning content and assessment definition data received from an author for a course unit of an online course. The learner database stores assessment responses that determine a learner's level of achievement in course units. Responsive to a learning request for a particular learner and online course, the runtime engine retrieves from the learner database assessment responses, selects in the content repository for the learner's level of achievement a course unit of the requested online course, and delivers the learning content to the learner. Using the assessment definition data, the runtime engine performs an assessment of the learner's level of achievement in the course unit and updates the learner database. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150364051 | GENERATING A COMPREHENSION INDICATOR THAT INDICATES HOW WELL AN INDIVIDUAL UNDERSTOOD THE SUBJECT MATTER COVERED BY A TEST - A method and system are provided for generating a comprehension indicator that indicates how well an individual understood the subject matter covered by a test. In one implementation, a question-level comprehension indicator is generated for each of the questions on the test. The question-level comprehension indicators may be generated based upon one or more question-level factors, which may include behavioral aspects of the individual while taking the test. After the question-level comprehension indicators are generated, they may be used to generate a first test-level comprehension indicator. A second test-level comprehension indicator may also be generated. Unlike the first test-level comprehension indicator, the second test-level comprehension indicator is generated based upon test level rather than question level factors. After the first and second test-level comprehension indicators are generated, they may be used to derive an overall comprehension indicator for the individual for that test. The overall comprehension indicator may then be used in addition to or in lieu of a test score to determine how well the individual understood the subject matter covered by the test, as well as other purposes. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150364056 | VIRTUAL CLASS-BASED GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP INCUBATING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided are a virtual class-based global citizenship incubating system and method. The system and method allow participants all over the world to perform global educational exchange among participants and instructors, among the participants, and among participant groups through a platform supporting one of a web, mobile network, social network services (SNS), cloud, and a combination thereof while overcoming a spatio-temporal limitation and include processes of matching, exchange, problem-solving, homework, evaluation, and certification. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150379629 | INTERACTIVE WEB-ENABLED COMPUTER APPLICATION AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION TO AND VERIFYING INFORMATION FROM A LOAN APPLICANT - The present disclosure provides an interactive web-enabled computer application, and method of using the computer application, that (1) serves as a tool to educate loan applicants about relevant facts regarding their particular type of loan; (2) makes the applicants aware of their payment obligations and approximate residual income; (3) educates applicants about the consequences of missing payments; (4) requires the applicants to confirm personal information including, but not limited to, income and other debt obligations; and (5) documents that the applicants have been educated as described above, and that the applicants have verified their personal information. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160012741 | EDUTAINMENT SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING LINKAGE OF ELECTRONIC BOOK AND GAME | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160019804 | Determining Comprehensiveness of Question Paper Given Syllabus - A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for determining comprehensiveness of a question paper given a syllabus of topics. An answer and evidence generator of a question answering system executing on the data processing system finds one or more answers based on the syllabus of topics for each question in the question paper. The answer and evidence generator identifies evidence for the one or more answers in the syllabus for each question in the question paper. A concept identifier of the question answering system identifies a set of concepts in the syllabus corresponding to the evidence for each question in the question paper to form a plurality of sets of concepts. The mechanism determines a value for a comprehensiveness metric for the question paper with respect to the syllabus of topics based on the plurality of sets of concepts. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160019805 | Learning Model for Dynamic Component Utilization in a Question Answering System - Mechanisms are provided in a data processing system for utilizing algorithms based on categories in a question answering system. The mechanisms capture a history of performance and correctness metrics for identifying efficiency of respective algorithms for finding answers to questions in respective question categories in a question answering system. The mechanisms determine sets of algorithms to use for respective question categories according to efficiency and correctness analysis. The mechanisms determine a question category of a given input question and execute a set of algorithms corresponding to the question category of the given input question that meet an efficiency threshold to contribute to finding a correct answer for the given input question. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160019812 | QUESTION GENERATOR - A computer implemented method, a computerized system and a computer program product for generating questions. The computer implemented method comprising obtaining a question, wherein the question comprises one or more elements that define an answer for the question. The method further comprising obtaining the answer. The method further comprises automatically generating, by a processor, a new question based on the question and the answer. The automatic generation comprises determining a variant of the one or more elements, wherein the variant defines the answer, wherein the new question comprises the variant. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160062959 | Method and Apparatus for Responding to an Inquiry - Disclosed is a method and apparatus for responding to an inquiry from a client via a network. The method and apparatus receive the inquiry from a client via a network. Based on the inquiry, question-answer pairs retrieved from the network are analyzed to determine a response to the inquiry. The QA pairs are not predefined. As a result, the QA pairs have to be analyzed in order to determine whether they are responsive to a particular inquiry. Questions of the QA pairs may be repetitive and, without more, will not be useful in determining whether their corresponding answer responds to an inquiry. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160063878 | COURSE CUSTOMIZER - Techniques for providing customized learning material for a particular course so that each student can learn efficiently and effectively based on their own skills and depth of knowledge in the particular subject. The system allows customization of a path through the course material by setting waypoints. Each waypoint corresponds to a particular position within the course material. By setting multiple waypoints, a user can create a customized path through the course material. The user can further specify, for each waypoint, the level of detail of the course material presented to the user. By following the sequence of waypoints, the system can automatically present the course material via a course player to the user in the order the user prefers. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160063879 | GENERATING HIGH-LEVEL QUESTIONS FROM SENTENCES - Questions about a passage of text that includes a sequence of two or more sentences are generated. Each question covers the content of a plurality of sentences in the passage, and includes a context portion of the passage and a question statement that is contextually related to the context portion of the passage. A user is also provided with questions about a passage of text they are reading. Each question is presented to the user, where this presentation includes displaying the context portion of the passage and the question statement that is contextually related to the context portion of the passage. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160078772 | AUTOMATIC DATA INTERPRETATION AND ANSWERING ANALYTICAL QUESTIONS WITH TABLES AND CHARTS - A method providing an answer to at least one analytical question containing at least one table or at least one chart is provided. The method may include receiving an input question. The method may also include extracting a plurality of information from the input question based on a natural language analysis. The method may further include forming a well-defined sentence. The method may include extracting at least one table or at least one chart associated with the input question. The method may include forming at least one mathematical equation. The method may also include solving the at least one mathematical equation. The method may include determining the answer to the input question in natural language based on the solved at least one mathematical equation. The method may further include narrating the determined answer to the input question in natural language. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160086498 | Recommending a Set of Learning Activities Based on Dynamic Learning Goal Adaptation - Methods, systems, and computer program products for recommending a set of learning activities are provided herein. A method includes determining a set of learning goals for a student based on an existing knowledge state and identified interests; calculating a probability value of the student succeeding in each of the learning goals in the set; selecting learning goals from the set for the student based on the existing knowledge state, a learning style associated with the student, historical data pertaining to additional students, the probability values, and an exploration threshold; outputting a first recommendation comprising a first sequence of learning activities corresponding to said selected learning goals; monitoring performance of the student; updating the existing knowledge state, learning style, identified interests, and exploration threshold; using the updated parameters to modify the learning goals; and outputting a second recommendation comprising a second sequence of learning activities corresponding to said modified learning goals. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160098938 | METHOD, SERVER, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING LEARNING SERVICE - A method, a server, and a system for providing a learning service are provided. A learning service method may include the steps, which are executed by a server, of: receiving a first question from a first terminal; transmitting the first question to a second terminal; and receiving a first solution from the second terminal. The learning service method can provide a way to solve the problem through a direct mutual cooperation between users. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160098939 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPRESENTING AND UPDATING A TEST-TAKER STATUS BY REMOTE POLLING - An online test platform facilitates representing a test taker with an interactive test taker icon. The platform may include administrator interfaces, test proctor interfaces, and test taker interfaces to allow each participant to view, navigate, and interact with aspects of the online test platform that are intended to meet their needs. The test platform allows representation of test takers via an interactive test taker icon. An icon represents the test taker on a display available to a teacher or proctor to monitor the status of the test taker while an online test is being administered. The display and the test taker icon may be used to represent a status of the test taker and may also be used to update the test taker status. In one example, the status of the test taker may be updated by remote polling of the test taker's station via a remote server. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160125749 | USER INTERFACE FOR A/B TESTING - Techniques for conducting A/B testing are described. According to various embodiments, a user request to configure an A/B test is received, and a targeting user interface is displayed. The targeting user interface includes a group of one or more windows, each of the windows being configured to display one or more user-specified targeting criteria statements that identify members of an online social networking service based on member attributes of the members. Thereafter, a user specification of one or more targeting criteria statements is received in conjunction with one or more of the windows. Targeting criteria information defining a set of members of the online social networking service to be targeted for the A/B test is then generated, the targeting criteria information indicating that all members satisfying all the targeting criteria statements for any window in the group of windows are to be targeted for the A/B test. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160125750 | ANSWER SEQUENCE EVALUATION - Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward evaluating an answer sequence. Aspects are directed toward receiving a set of answer sequences including a first answer sequence. The first answer sequence may have a first set of answers. Aspects are also directed toward identifying a set of scores coupled with the first set of answers. Aspects are also directed toward determining, based on a subject matter corresponding to the first answer sequence, a set of evaluation rules. Aspects are also directed toward generating, based on the set of scores and the set of evaluation rules, a sequence evaluation score for the first answer sequence. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160125751 | ANSWER MANAGEMENT IN A QUESTION-ANSWERING ENVIRONMENT - Managing answers in a question-answering environment is disclosed. Managing answers in the question-answering environment can include sorting, based on a set of answer categories for a subject matter, a first set of answers into a first answer category and a second set of answers into a second answer category. Managing answers in the question-answering environment can include determining, using the subject matter, a first category sequence including the first answer category and the second answer category, and establishing, based on the first category sequence, a first answer sequence established from a portion of the first set of answers from the first answer category and a portion of the second set of answers from the second answer category. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160133146 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR QUESTION AND ANSWER - A display apparatus and a method for questions and answers includes a display unit includes an input unit configured to receive user's speech voice; a communication unit configured to perform data communication with an answer server; and a processor configured to create and display one or more question sentences using the speech voice in response to the speech voice being a word speech, create a question language corresponding to the question sentence selected from among the displayed one or more question sentences, transmit the created question language to the answer server via the communication unit, and, in response to one or more answer results related to the question language being received from the answer server, display the received one or more answer results. Accordingly, the display apparatus may provide an answer result appropriate to a user's question intention although a non-sentence speech is input. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160170968 | Determining Relevant Feedback Based on Alignment of Feedback with Performance Objectives | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160171900 | Determining the Correct Answer in a Forum Thread | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160180724 | Customized Online Media Segment Sequencing | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160180725 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING LEARNING OR TRAINING PROGRESS | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160180726 | MANAGING A QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEM | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160379515 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING LOGICAL THINKING IN CURATION LEARNING - A method of enhancing logical thinking in a curation learning system. The method comprises receiving an original curation and an existing curation, newly-added curation, or clipped items of content, analyzing content in the original curation, additional curation and clipped items, comprising an existing curation, newly-added curation, or clipped items to identify a plurality of key topics, identifying an opinion orientation of the content of the original curation and the additional curation, creating a visualization of the opinion orientation of the plurality of content of the original curation and the additional curation and clipped items with respect to the key topics, matching the identified opinion orientation and key topics of the original curation and the additional curation and clipped items, generating a notification of the matched opinion orientation and key topics of the original curation, newly-added curation, existing curation and clipped items, and presenting the user with a guidance display. | 12-29-2016 |
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