| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 434433000 | MISCELLANEOUS | 14 |
| 20090017436 | 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. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090029339 | Early Alert System and Method for Identifying and Assisting Students in Need at an Educational Institution - The present invention is a system and method that proactively identifies a student in need at an educational institution. The system allows for the educational institution to connect with the student, gather information, and provide assistance. Student needs that may be addressed are various and include academic, social, emotional, and spiritual. Because student needs are addressed in a timely and effective manner, the present invention may be used as a tool to increase retention rates at the educational institution. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090047653 | METHOD OF INSTRUCTING USING A LEARNING CENTER - A method of instructing a plurality of students using a learning center, comprising providing a learning center, wherein the learning center includes a bench system having a two tier configuration and forming an arc of about ninety degrees. The bench system also includes a plurality of two-tier straight benches and a plurality of two-tier arcuate benches. The learning center further comprises shelves coupled to a back portion of the learning center. The method also includes providing a traditional classroom adjacent the learning center. The method further includes providing learning center rules, wherein the learning center rules include conduct rules and disciplinary rules. The method additionally includes pre-determining a single learning event at the learning center. Furthermore, the method includes holding the single learning event at the learning center following the learning center rules. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090148827 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR EVENT ATTENDANCE PROCESSING AND ATTENDEE IDENTIFICATION AND RELATED DEVICES - A method of tracking attendance of an event includes detecting a presence of at least one mobile attendee device. The mobile attendee device includes personal identification information stored therein for an attendee associated therewith who is registered for the event. An ad hoc wireless data connection is established with the mobile attendee device responsive to detection thereof. An identification request is transmitted to the mobile attendee device via the ad hoc wireless data connection, and the personal identification information for the attendee is received from the mobile attendee device via the ad hoc wireless data connection. The received identification information is displayed on an administrator device. Related systems, devices, and computer program products are also discussed. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090186331 | System and method for correlating curricula - A system and method for correlating learning objectives, curriculum items or elements or competency expectations between multiple curricula, or between a curriculum and established national, industry or governmental standards, includes multiple steps. A first curriculum, including multiple curriculum items, is selected. A second curriculum or standard, containing multiple elements, is selected. A curriculum item from within the first curriculum is selected. A filter is applied to the elements of the second curriculum or standard to produce a visible display of a subset of elements from within the second curriculum. Individual elements, from within the subset of elements, are identified as correlating to the curriculum item. The individual elements that correlate to the curriculum item are tagged, or cross-walked, to create a link between the curricula. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090197239 | Ching-Min Huang Education System - The proposed new education system, C.-M. Huang Education System, is according to the “Education Theory of Ching-Min Huang—General Education and Specialized Learning”. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090305221 | Hybrid E-Learning Course Creation and Syndication - The disclosed invention is directed to a method and system which allows publishers to create hybrid elearning courses and to publish the courses to a variety of environments including to an LMS, a web interface, or a CD-ROM. Through a “syndication” process, the hybrid elearning courses are associated with consuming organizations downstream of the publisher; such consuming organizations and/or roles within such organizations may be allowed to edit or customize those portions of the courses which have been labeled as “consumer editable.” | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100159437 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES - A recommender system and method is provided, including receiving a request to recommend a course of action related to a plurality of current students in accordance with a plurality of constraints and accessing a computer database storing student data that corresponds to the plurality of current students. The student data includes attribute data corresponding to respective students of the plurality of current students for describing at least one attribute related to the respective students. The method further includes clustering in a computer process the plurality of current students into a selected number of clusters based at least on sameness of attribute data corresponding to the respective current students of the plurality of current students and the plurality of constraints, and outputting the results of the clustering to a user. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100159438 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES - A recommender system and method including receiving a request identifying at least one current student for which a recommendation is sought and accessing stored student data including attributes associated with respective students of the current students and a plurality of predecessor students. For the predecessor students the attributes include educational resources. The method includes clustering one of predecessor students and the current students into clusters based on sameness of first selected attributes of their respective associated attributes. The method includes generating a mapping between respective students of the other of the predecessor and current students and one of the clusters based on sameness of second selected attributes associated with the students being mapped. The method then includes recommending for each of the current students the educational resource associated with the predecessor student or cluster of predecessor students that the current student is mapped with. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100291531 | System and method for correlating curricula - A system and method for correlating learning objectives, curriculum items or elements or competency expectations between multiple curricula, or between a curriculum and established national, industry or governmental standards, includes multiple steps. A first curriculum, including multiple curriculum items, is selected. A second curriculum or standard, containing multiple elements, is selected. A curriculum item from within the first curriculum is selected. A filter is applied to the elements of the second curriculum or standard to produce a visible display of a subset of elements from within the second curriculum. Individual elements, from within the subset of elements, are identified as correlating to the curriculum item. The individual elements that correlate to the curriculum item are tagged, or cross-walked, to create a link between the curricula. Such correlations may also extend to achievements of an individual student or to a set of students. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110059428 | MEMORIZATION SYSTEM - A memorization system includes a housing having an open end to form a hollow chamber. A first compartment having an open end is disposed within the housing. A second compartment also is provided having a first aperture and at least one card is slidably and removably received within the second compartment. The card includes first and second columns of printed indicia wherein information in the first column is related and corresponds to information in the second column. In addition, the information in the second column of printed indicia represents information to be memorized. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110070573 | INSTRUCTIONAL CONTENT AND STANDARDS ALIGNMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM - An instructional content and standards alignment processing system is disclosed. The system includes a computer-readable memory configured to store information indicative of instructional content, a first educational standard, and a second educational standard, and configured to store at least one alignment between the instructional content and the first educational standard and at least one mapping between the first educational standard and the second educational standard. The system also includes a processor configured to automatically generate at least one alignment between the instructional content and the second educational standard based on the mapping between the first educational standard and the second educational standard. The computer-readable memory is configured to store the alignment between the instructional content and the second educational standard after the alignment is confirmed by a user. Methods and machine-readable mediums are also disclosed. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110091861 | Practice Gown - A clothing attachment that serves as a practice gown by connecting over the clothing of a wearer such that the clothing attachment is configured with weight, volume, and length markers to simulate the conditions of wearing a complete dress under actual conditions of that dress. In this manner, a wearer can simulate and otherwise practice engaging in activities for a wedding or ballroom dancing without risking damage to the actual dress or gown. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20120244517 | METHOD FOR ENHANCING PRECOCITY AND CREATING CHILD PRODIGIES OR PRODIGIOUS GENIUSES - There is disclosed a method for enhancing precocity in a human subject, and further for creating child prodigies, and prodigious geniuses using synaesthesia. In one embodiment of the present invention, synaesthesia may be inherited or induced artificially. | 09-27-2012 |
