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| 705327000 | Education institution selection, admissions, or financial aid | 53 |
| 20100223194 | STUDENT-CENTERED, CROSS-INSTITUTIONAL CURRICULUM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM APPARATUS AND METHOD - A computer apparatus is provided for managing a student's educational curriculum. The apparatus may include a source information module, a mining module, and a planning module. The source information module may create a plurality of institution records, each corresponding uniquely to an educational institution and comprising a catalog and a schedule. The mining module may create a plurality of sets, each set comprising all offered courses contained within the plurality of institutional records that are substantially equivalent to each other in satisfying a degree requirement selected from the degree requirements. The planning module may receive from a user a degree identifier and a constraint reflecting criteria establishing personal priorities of a user. The planning module may further present to the user a list of the required courses corresponding to the selected degree and identifying alternate courses, each alternate course thereof satisfying the constraint and being equivalent to a required course. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110055100 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATED PROFESSIONAL CONTINUING EDUCATION RELATED SERVICES - Systems and techniques are disclosed that provide a comprehensive and integrated professional education and training platform, especially in the areas of tax, financial auditing and reporting, and planning and risk assessment. The systems and techniques allow an administrator to identify a subset of learning courses from a set of available learning courses for association with an educational product, and to assign individuals to each of the subset of learning courses. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110060695 | System and Method for Automated Admissions Process and Yield Rate Management - Admissions processing, management and yield rate improvement is enabled through an automated submission, management, notification, matching and status indication system in accordance with the present invention. The present invention provides an applicant component enabling applicants to submit an application for admission and receive status information about their application. The present invention further provides a management component for personalizing communications, scheduling interviews and on-site visits, and categorizing, assigning and evaluating the application. The present invention further provides a matching component to assist the admissions office personnel in qualifying candidates for admission, determining the most likely candidates from the qualified candidates to accept an offer, and matching prospective students with current students for tours and other applicant services. The present invention further provides a communications component for notifying admissions office personnel of assigned applications and allowing applicants to view the application status. The present invention can integrate with previously established interfaces and databases, and can be customized for specific user needs. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110082808 | MOBILE INTEGRATION OF USER-SPECIFIC INSTITUTIONAL CONTENT - A system for integrating user-specific institutional content for mobile delivery is disclosed. The system includes a communications module configured to receive, from a mobile device, a request for target institutional content based on source institutional content and an identification of a user. The system also includes a processor configured to obtain, from a memory, the target institutional content based on the source institutional content and the identification of the user, and further configured to provide, to the mobile device in response to the request, the generalized institutional content in a format configured for display on the mobile device. Methods and machine-readable mediums are also disclosed. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110082809 | Integrated Institution Application Management System - A computer implemented method and system is provided for allowing an applicant to apply for admission to multiple institutions in an online environment. An application management platform comprising an online interface is provided to an applicant. The application management platform provides a list of institutions to the applicant. The applicant selects one or more institutions listed on the online interface. The application management platform identifies applicant information sought by the selected institutions by parsing application forms associated with the selected institutions. The application management platform generates a universal application form comprising a consolidated set of input fields corresponding to the identified applicant information. The application management platform captures the applicant information filled into the consolidated set of input fields of the dynamically generated universal application form via the online interface. The application management platform selectively transmits the captured applicant information from the filled universal application form to the selected institutions. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110196803 | TECHNIQUES FOR MAPPING COURSES TO PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS - An evaluation of an external course may be based on course-to-requirement mappings that have been previously established for the target institution. As a result of the evaluation, the external course may be mapped to a particular program requirement for a particular student, which allows the external course to fulfill the particular program requirement at the institution for the particular student. The course evaluation may be automatic or may be performed by a human evaluator. Course-to-requirement mappings may be globally-established, and applicable to all students and applicants of the target institution, or may be applicant-specific, and only applicable to the student for which the mapping was established. Information about both globally-established and applicant-specific course-to-requirement mappings that have been previously established for the institution may be used to evaluate an external course for a particular student. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110302101 | Automatic Data Transmission in Response to Content of Electronic Forms Satisfying Criteria - Automatic transmission of information is generated when the content of a posted electronic form matches a predefined criteria. An interface allows the user to create a criterion template to specify the match criterion without requiring the user to have the skills of a professional programmer. The person to be notified and the form and content of the notification can also be defined by the user and can be dependent on the content of the posted form. In one application, individuals associated with an institution of higher learning are automatically notified when a student submits an electronic profile form showing that the student meets a pre-specified criteria. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120030131 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION - A system and method for optimizing the effectiveness of an educational institution. A rules engine receives a request to manage an academic plan of a student from a user access device. The rules engine accesses a datastore and selects data based on the request that are indicative of the standing of the student with the educational institution at a point in time. The rules engine also selecting rules stored in a datastore based on the request. The rules engine applies the selected rules to the selected data to determine whether to grant the request. The data stored in the first memory are updated when the request is granted. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120150763 | Selection of Individuals From a Pool of Candidates in a Competition System - An integrated highly automated competition system allows for selection of one or more competition winners. Documents can be submitted electronically or by hardcopy. Document submissions are checked against databases to determine duplicate existence by a variety of information extracted from the documents. Candidates are filtered by one or more filters requiring candidates meet completeness, qualification, eligibility, and partner/discretionary standards. Candidates are evaluated by one or more readers and scored on a plurality of cognitive and non-cognitive variables. Readers are monitored and corrective action is taken when reader evaluations are determined to require corrective action. Candidates are selected by a two stage process first using raw read scores and then using a successive weighted read score iteration or tie-breaking stage. Winning candidates are subject to progress tracking and re-qualification prior to receiving award payments. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120179618 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING K-12 EDUCATION - The educational model according to aspects of the present invention reengineers fundamental structures of education and provides rigorous, standards-driven, small-group instruction continuously for every student within a school system. The, model uses resources including time, talent and technology more efficiently to achieve better outcomes for faculty and students and systems of schools, and allows teachers more time with fewer students, increases the instructional year for students without increasing the work year for teachers, adding roughly 30% more instructional time for students without increasing the work year for teachers, and in fact includes more than 20 days of professional development into the teachers' regular work year. The model operates to improve education without increasing costs. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179619 | Method for Recouping Tuition Discounts - A tuition advantage program incorporating an award offered to students via a promissory note, and having an original principal balance that replaces a small part of the institutional tuition discount that the institution extends to the student. The principal is a reduction against tuition, and it is not delivered to students in the form of a payment. Extension of the principal therefore results in no direct expense to the institution, as it is merely a transformation of a discount that otherwise would have been granted to the student in the form of institutional aid award. Repayment of the tuition advantage funds is not required until after the student separates from the institution, such as by graduation. Upon separation and timely repayment of the first 75% of the original principal balance, the remaining 25% of the original principal is forgiven, resulting in an effective annual percentage rate of under 1.0%. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120215712 | System and database for education - A method, a system, a computer program product, and a database organization for a multi-language membership website for use by individuals—both members and visitors—, companies, providers, and experts. The product supplies information about education opportunities with a primary intention of directing users to educators. Users can select an occupational goal and the product will direct the users to education providers so the user may advance professionally. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120254056 | INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL AID ANALYSIS - Systems for analytically combining student admissions data, enrollment data, and financial aid data to present relationships therein, are described. One exemplary system includes a processor configured to obtain admissions data, enrollment data, and financial aid data from respective databases in memory, and identify student data shared among any of at least two of them. The processor is further configured to associate each of the identified student data with a unique identifier, receive a first query for a report for a subset of the identified student data, and provide the report. The report is generated by detecting at least two of admissions data, enrollment data, and financial aid data for the subset using the unique identifiers associated with the subset. The report includes a relationship between any of at least two of admissions data, enrollment data, and financial aid data for the subset. Methods and machine-readable media are also described. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20130018812 | System for Regulation of Continuing Education RequirementsAANM Cherner; Eugene H.AACI LombardAAST ILAACO USAAGP Cherner; Eugene H. Lombard IL USAANM Fialko; Steve R.AACI WheelingAAST ILAACO USAAGP Fialko; Steve R. Wheeling IL US - Various embodiments are directed to a Continuing Education Registration and Search System to allow various users of the System to track, search, register, audit and/or manage various aspects of their continuing education requirements. The System may provide a plurality of user interfaces over various computer networks for use by various users where all continuing education information can be exchanged between the various users. The various users in the System may have accounts in the System, search through a variety of classes and providers with user provided feedbacks, and register for and purchase classes within the System. The System may also provide the current status and remaining requirements to the users and update the status and remaining requirements as classes are taken and completed by users. The System may also provide recommendations of classes to the users based at least in part on information stored within the System. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130018813 | Computerized Net Price Calculation Method and System with Total Cost and Affordability CalculationAANM Carroll; Craig V.AACI Double BayAACO AUAAGP Carroll; Craig V. Double Bay AUAANM Childress; David M.AACI SacramentoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Childress; David M. Sacramento CA USAANM McCormack; Eric S.AACI WhitmanAAST MAAACO USAAGP McCormack; Eric S. Whitman MA USAANM Nguyen; Christiane ThyAACI West SacramentoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Nguyen; Christiane Thy West Sacramento CA USAANM Dao; TuongvyAACI West SacramentoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Dao; Tuongvy West Sacramento CA USAANM Lee; MiseeAACI SacramentoAAST CAAACO USAAGP Lee; Misee Sacramento CA US - A computerized method and system for conveying the affordability of an individual's choice of post-secondary educational program by determining the total cost, estimated student aid awards and net price of attending a specific academic institution. The computer system receiving a student's and their family's personal, financial, and academic information and combining that information with specific and individualized cost of attendance information from one or more academic institutions. The computer system then calculates the total cost of attending the school, the estimated net price, and out of pocket expenses based on the information provided by the student. Additionally, the computer system and method provides affordability analysis tools to help student further understand the cost of funding and repaying the cost of an educational program under various scenarios. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130066798 | TRANSCRIPT, COURSE CATALOG AND FINANCIAL AID APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - In one aspect the invention relates to a method of automating an application process. The method includes the steps of collecting student identification information using a graphic user interface; collecting student transcript and student application data; generating a first secure communication channel to transmit a portion of the student transcript and student application data to a first server in response to a valid request; formatting the transcript data such that it is suitable for use by a first database; generating a second secure communication channel to transmit the portion of the student transcript and student application data to the first database, the first database managed by a higher educational institution, and notifying the first server when the transcript data has been received by the database. In one embodiment, the valid request is verified using student identification information. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130080346 | Apparatus and Methods for an Application Process and Data Analysis - One aspect of the invention relates to a method of simplifying an application process. The method includes a series of steps that can be performed in any particular order. The steps include dividing: the application process into a plurality of sub-processes, arranging a portion of the plurality of sub-processes in response to a scheme, collecting user profile data in response to a plurality of queries, the queries selectively presented to the user in response to a branching logical hierarchy, generating a report in response to the profile data; and targeting information to a desired demographic of users in response to user profile data correlations. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130166467 | System and Method for Military Education Benefits Analysis - A computerized method for determining eligibility of military education benefits and calculating an award estimate based on each service member's individual personal, financial, and military background information. Potential students enter information via a user interface of the computer system. In response to the entered information, the computer system presents additional relevant questions based on the previous information entered by the service member. The computer system uses the entered information to provide a detailed and customized calculation of the total estimated aid. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130238520 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MANAGED WEBINAR FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AN ENTITY AND A USER - Embodiments of a system and method are disclosed for providing effective communication between an entity, e.g., college, and users, e.g., prospective students, parents, relatives, guardians, counselors, etc. Embodiments provide a campaign management tool designed to meet the needs of the school admissions officers and other school personnel. An embodiment of the campaign management tool allows a school to create and manage webinar session campaigns to reach prospective students and to convince students offered admission to enroll. Embodiments of the system and method allow a school to create and manage webinar, email, mail and telephone campaigns using the campaign management tool. Embodiments allow a high school/district to utilize a college fair webinar. Embodiments provide unique widgets to be used on the school websites or other websites. The widget provides visitor search engine analytics and allows the students to register for webinars and introduce themselves well before the application process begins. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130290211 | METHOD OF SHARING KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION BETWEEN LEARNING COMMUNITIES - A method of providing an educational social networking service (SNS) which can combine students, teachers and parents together while serving as an auxiliary tool for educational activities which are carried out in actual classes. The educational SNS provides a user interface (UI) page that is suitable to the characteristics of the age group of users, provides a space in which entire generations can communicate with each other by accommodating a variety of generations including students, teachers and parents, and provides a learning management system (LMS) system, or an auxiliary tool for education. In this fashion, Classting, or a powerful tool capable of combining worldwide education, can establish a global social network and support cooperative learning based thereon. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130311390 | Automatic data transmission in response to content of electronic forms satisfying criteria - Automatic transmission of information is generated when the content of a posted electronic form matches a predefined criteria. An interface allows the user to create a criterion template to specify the match criterion without requiring the user to have the skills of a professional programmer. The person to be notified and the form and content of the notification can also be defined by the user and can be dependent on the content of the posted form. In one application, individuals associated with an institution of higher learning are automatically notified when a student submits an electronic profile form showing that the student meets a pre-specified criteria. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20140019375 | COMPUTING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR FACILITATING THE CHOICE OF AN ACADEMIC OFFERING - A computing system and computer-implemented method may be used by prospective students and their influencers to choose an academic offering, such as a college major. The computing system enables its user to query an academic institution's database using exact match terms or intelligent-associated keywords. In response to the query, the computing system may identify an academic offering that most closely matches the search query. In addition, or in the alternative, the computing system may further identify alternative academic offerings. The system and method may further be utilized by academic institutions to tailor academic offerings to prospective students. The collected data may be shared among multiple participating academic institutions, and in some embodiments reports of user data relevant to each academic institution are generated for that institution's consideration and use. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140032437 | TRAVEL APP - A system and method to conduct a search for visits of colleges and/or universities (C/Us) comprising the steps of: entering student data into an input device; entering locating information and a desired radius limitation into the input device; and generating C/Us relevant to the student data and within the radius limitation. Another embodiment comprises the steps of: sending locating information and a desired radius limitation to an input device; generating C/Us within the radius limitation; selecting C/Us of interest; and generating information about selected C/Us. Another embodiment relates to a system and method to conduct a search visit of destinations comprising the steps of: entering destination data into an input device; entering locating information and a desired radius limitation into the input device; and generating destinations relevant to the destination data and within the radius limitation. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140040156 | Computer System for Financial Aid Packaging for Students - A computerized system and method for determining and mitigating risk associated with student lending. The computer system determines a student quality index score, which provides an assessment of how likely the student, such as a student candidate or current student, is to succeed during school and after graduation. Then, based on the student quality index scores of the students, the computer system determines how to structure the financial aid award packages for each individual student to maximize the financial aid provided to the students and enable the academic institutions to be within the mandated lending regulations. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140067707 | METHOD FOR ADMITTING AN ADMISSIONS APPLICANT INTO AN ACADEMIC INSTITUTION - A method for admitting applicants into an academic institution can include the steps of: compiling a list of standardized test takers who have applied for admission to at least one academic institution, but have not received an offer of admission to any one of the at least one academic institutions; conditionally admitting selected ones of the test takers to an abbreviated academic program; subjecting the conditionally admitted test takers to at least one examination during the abbreviated academic program, each conditionally admitted test taker achieving a score on the at least one examination; and, admitting into the academic institution those conditionally admitted test takers who achieve a score on said at least one examination which satisfies an admissions criteria. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140089219 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD THAT PROVIDES PERSONAL, EDUCATIONAL AND CAREER NAVIGATION, VALIDATION, AND ANALYSIS TO USERS - Methods and systems that provide personal, educational, and career analytics for students to navigate the ever increasing educational and career landscape. Instant simulated journeys of success may be created by translating personal, educational, and career data into visual and navigational choices for every student and parent. Users may be allowed instant access to all K1-to-K20 personalized education records in order to continually analyze that data against the labor market, labor data, personal interests, and educational choices and job forecasts in order to produce continual options and validation. Results may be produced that help students and parents more accurately prepare and plan by visually seeing progress, strengths, weaknesses, funding needs, options and statistics on a regular basis. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140101068 | FACILITY-BASED LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems and methods may provide for receiving registration input for a student associated with a first facility, and registering the student in an online course associated with a second facility based on the registration input. In one example, an online presence of the student may be measured, wherein a report can be generated based on the online presence. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140156551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING A UNIVERSITY MODEL GRAPH - An educational institution (also referred as a university) is rich with multiple kinds of data: students, faculty members, departments, divisions, and at university level. Relating and correlating this data at and across various levels help in obtaining a perspective about the educational institution. A structural representation captures the essence of all of the relationships in a unified manner and an important aspect of the relationship is the so-called “influence factor.” This factor indicates influencing effect of an entity over another entity, wherein the entities are a part of the structural representation. A system and method for the construction of such a structural representation of an educational institution based on the educational institution specific information is discussed. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140164274 | Apparatus and Method for Recommending Courses - An apparatus for recommending courses ( | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140172733 | SCHOOL-FINDING TOOL - A technique for providing objective-related information is described. During this analysis technique, profiles of a group of individuals, who have achieved a desired objective of another individual (who is not in the group of individuals), are used to determine values of a set of attributes of these individuals. For example, information in the profiles may specify a social graph that include nodes corresponding to entities (such as the set of attributes) and edges corresponding to connections between the nodes (and, thus, between the entities). The relationships specified or embodied by the social graph may be used to determine the group of individuals and, thus, values of the set of attributes. Then, at least a subset of the values may be presented to the other individual. This information may be used by the other individual to increase the likelihood that they will achieve the objective. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140195450 | Method and System for Course Evaluation - The present disclosure provides a method for receiving enrollment for a course. A method may include receiving course search criteria and providing a list of courses matching the course search criteria. Course details may be provided for each of the courses in the list, and the course details may include identification of an institution offering the course. A request to enroll for a course may be received and enrollment information may be provided to the institution. An indication may be received from the institution that enrollment for the course is complete. Additionally, a method for providing course options to a user is provided. A user selection of a first course offered at a first institution may be received. An equivalent course offered at a second institution that is accepted as an equivalent course at the first institution may be identified and the equivalent course may be presented to the user. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140214712 | METHOD FOR ADMITTING AN ADMISSIONS APPLICANT INTO AN ACADEMIC INSTITUTION - A method for admitting applicants into an academic institution can include the steps of: compiling a list of standardized test takers who have applied for admission to at least one academic institution, but have not received an offer of admission to any one of the at least one academic institutions; conditionally admitting selected ones of the test takers to an abbreviated academic program; subjecting the conditionally admitted test takers to at least one examination during the abbreviated academic program, each conditionally admitted test taker achieving a score on the at least one examination; and, admitting into the academic institution those conditionally admitted test takers who achieve a score on said at least one examination which satisfies an admissions criteria. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140279643 | System and Method for Probabilistic Prediction of an Applicant's Acceptance - Various exemplary embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to providing methods executed on a computer and computer-based apparatus, including computer program products, for probabilistic prediction. Specifically, various exemplary embodiments relate to providing probabilistic prediction of an applicant's acceptance by an institution. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140279644 | Systems and Methods for College Application and Offer Management - A method of matching applicants, such as high school students seeking college admissions, to institutions, such as colleges, includes the creation of applicant profiles for the various applicants and institutional profiles for the various institutions. The profiles can incorporate psychometric, psychographic, demographic, and/or biographical attributes. The attributes of institutions can be matched to those of applicants, thus providing colleges with improved data useful in admissions decisions, as well as providing students with improved data useful in making college application decisions. Social media functionality can also be included. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140304185 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION BORROWER DEBT - A system is disclosed that makes it easy for educational institutions to contact and counsel student loan borrowers to promote successful loan repayment. The system is a web-based tool that automates borrower communication through telephone, letter and email campaigns, using loan information that is obtained through third-party loan servicers by the educational institution and then uploaded into the system. The self-service default prevention tool aggregates loan data form multiple sources in one place to perform borrower outreach, offers targeted communication campaigns to address borrowers in repayment, displays real-time estimated default rate trends, and provides on-demand reports. A dashboard is generated that provides a snapshot of the educational institution's entire portfolio, projected cohort default rates, trending analysis charts, important messages and a history of file imports. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140358813 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SCHOOL ADMISSION INFORMATION, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR THE METHOD - The present invention provides a school admission information providing system and method including: an applicant information database which statistically stores grade information of successful applicants for many years for every school or major; a grade information input unit which receives grade information including at least one of a GPA, a school admission test result, an award winning career, and an extracurricular activity; a grade evaluating unit which compares and analyzes grade information of the student and statistic information of the successful applicants stored in the applicant information database to calculate a level of the student for every item of the grade information and provide information on an acceptable school or major; and a feedback providing unit which provides learning contents or an extracurricular activity program for supplementing an insufficient item among the grade items of the student in accordance with the comparison and analysis result from the grade evaluating unit. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140379602 | SKILL-DRIVEN EDUCATION MARKETPLACE - A method and apparatus for presenting education opportunities, careers, and/or job opportunities to a particular user based, at least in part, on the user's identified skill set. The system produces, based, at least in part, on a person's set of skills, one or more careers and/or job opportunities for which the person is currently qualified and/or for which the person may qualify with the acquisition of one or more additional skills. Further, the system identifies and presents educational courses that would help the user to acquire the skills that the user lacks to qualify for particular desired opportunities. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150019453 | SYSTEM FOR AIDING IN THE APPLICATION TO MULTIPLE COLLEGES - A coordinated college application system provides a means for finding and collecting information and applying to colleges from a single location. Information is easily shared for use in multiple colleges. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150052075 | LEARNING RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A learning relationship management system includes a personal learning plan unit in which a student of an educational institution sets his or her long-range educational and learning goals, and an advising unit that facilitates communications between students and their educational advisors. The learning relationship management system may include a teaching unit that facilitates creating online courses for students and providing them with the online courses. Automatic monitoring of student engagement in and achievement toward goals and activities can provide advisors with notifications of flags for students who fall behind, thereby allowing advisors or others to communicate with and support students at early sign of educational difficulty. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150095253 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS BASED ON AN INDIVIDUAL'S PREFERENCES AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS - A method and system for creating a customized and optimized application portfolio for educational institutions or other selective organizations. The system and method enables users to find a list of educational institutions or other selective organizations to which the user and/or a specified applicant may apply. The portfolio is composed accounting jointly for (1) to applicant attributes, preferences and constraints as well as (2) attributes of the institution or organization that accepts applications. According to certain embodiments, the portfolio is optimized to improve admission outcomes for the applicant and provide a customized set of matches between applicant and the institution or organization. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150106290 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCING STUDENT VISIBILITY DURING RECRUITING - Described herein are methods and systems for a third party to facilitate recruiting of a recruit by a potential recruiter and without acting as an intermediary. A processing device electronically provides recruiting information to a recruit. The recruiting information includes at least one of contact information for one or more potential recruiters or how-to information on preparing recruiting-related information to be sent to the one or more potential recruiters. The processing device provides a mobile application for download by the recruit. The mobile application includes capabilities for providing information regarding which of the one or more potential recruiters have viewed recruiting-related information of the recruit. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150120595 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION IN AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT - A system and associated methods are provided for communication and collaboration in an educational environment. Integrated modules are provided for discussions, document sharing, photo sharing, events and invitations, and sign-ups. The system comprises a database adapted to allow dynamic formation of groups associated with activities or courses and notification of members of those groups regarding posting of information. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150149380 | Method and System for College Matching - The present invention generally related to a system and method for selecting a college wherein student providing individual input such as GPA, SAT, and or ACT scores, further from there it is compared to the average student accepted into a particular college, after compared, the student is given a report based on how their scores match up with all the colleges based on the college ranking model, for the Graduate program SAT and ACT scores will be replaced by GRE, MCAT, GMAT, and LSAT for Engineering/Sciences/Education, Medicine, Business, and Law respectively. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150302352 | KNOWLEDGE PROXIMITY DETECTOR - An online education platform matches users for academic assistance events. The education platform receives offers for academic assistance events from providers, each of whom has accessed one or more textbook solutions documents. The education platform captures a time-sensitive request for an academic assistance event from a seeker. The request is associated with a textbook solutions document. Based on the textbook solutions document associated with the requested event and the textbook solutions documents accessed by the providers, the education platform pairs the requested event to at least one offered event. During a time window of the at least one offered event, the education platform detects proximity of the seeker and the provider and notifies the seeker and provider of the detected proximity. The education platform connects the seeker and provider, enabling communication between the users. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150317758 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING A RESOURCE WITH A COURSE - A method of associating an educational resource with an electronic course. The method includes providing an electronic learning server, the electronic learning server receiving, from an instructor device, information identifying an electronic course that is accessible on the electronic learning environment, the electronic learning server providing the instructor device access to a catalog of educational resources that are usable in conjunction with the electronic course, associating the at least one educational resource with the electronic course; and communicating the association between the at least one educational resource and the electronic course to a content store from which the selected at least one educational resource can be obtained. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20160026689 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS TO FACILITATE COURSE REGISTRATION AND OPTIMAL CLASS SELECTION - The disclosure is directed to online registration systems for education institutions, particularly higher education institutions, provide a registration function for students to register for classes. Registration can be achieved by creating a single record for each individual course in a centrally accessible system; obtaining a selection of one or more courses from a user; generating a list of two or more course schedules without user interaction; and presenting the list of two or more course schedule to the user. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160117790 | REVERSE TRANSFER SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer system linking two-year degree granting institutions (DGI's) with four-year host institutions and with a nationalized database and unified server environment that is designed to communicate with individual students. The participating DGI and host institution must first obtain each student's permission for the system's use of their data. As part of the RT system, students will also be given access to their educational records housed at a centralized data repository. The reverse transfer process implemented by the system will include, for the host school, a file intake process involving the steps of receiving a file via FTPS, performing file edits, and correction of file errors. Once corrected, the host school will approve the file and submit it via a user Interface where the file will then be merged into the centralized database. For that student, the system will then reference a pre-stored authorization matrix in order to identify which DGI's are authorized to view the host school data. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160125561 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR SCHOLARSHIP SEARCHING - A method for providing scholarship information to a student is disclosed. The method includes accessing a scholarship server and downloading scholarship information and storing the scholarship information in a database and then automatically categorizing the scholarship information. The method also includes receiving a request for scholarship matching from a mobile device, wherein the request includes biographical information. The method further includes, determining at least one scholarship match based on the scholarship information stored in the database and the received biographical information and transmitting the determined at least one scholarship match to the mobile device in a format that may be displayed on an app stored on the mobile device. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127429 | APPLICANT ANALYTICS FOR A MULTIUSER SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM - A method and system for conducting applicant analytics for a multiuser social networking system is disclosed. A social networking system stores member qualification data for a plurality of members of a social networking system. The social networking system receives an education institution interest indication. The social networking system receives an analytics data request from the client system, wherein the analytics request indicates a first education institution. The social networking system determines a list of other members of the social networking system that have indicated interest in the first education institution. The social networking system generates comparison data for the first member and the determined list of other members, wherein comparison data compares member qualification data of the first member and the determined list of other members. The social networking system transmits the generated comparison data to the client system. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160140678 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING AN EDUCATIONAL STUDY PATH - A system and method for optimizing a study path based on at least one goal are presented. The method includes receiving the at least one goal and at least one constraint; generating a plurality of potential study paths based on a plurality of courses that are required for the at least one goal and the at least one constraint; determining an optimal study path based on the plurality of potential study paths, the at least one goal, and the at least one constraint, wherein the optimal study path satisfies the at least one constraint, the optimal study path is a combination of courses and their order during a plurality of study terms; and generating at least one optimal schedule based on the optimal study path. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160140679 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A COURSE CATALOG - A system and method for optimizing a course catalog. The method comprises: retrieving, from a database, a plurality of optimal study paths selected by a plurality of students, wherein each of the plurality of optimal study paths is a combination of courses and their order during a plurality of study terms; determining an estimated attendance for each of a plurality of courses designated in the plurality of optimal study paths; assigning class hours to each of the plurality of courses based on the estimated attendance; optimizing the assignment of class hours of the plurality of courses, wherein the optimization maximizes a number students registered to their respective study paths; and generating an optimal course catalog based on the optimized assignment of class hours. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160163008 | SYSTEM FOR THE ACCURACY OF INFORMATION RELATED TO STUDYING ABROAD - A system for ensuring the accuracy of information related to studying abroad of international students includes: a study-abroad candidate terminal that enables a study abroad candidate to proceed with a process to sign up for a membership by accessing the internet and to provide his or her own information necessary for studying abroad or receive external information on studying abroad online; an operating association server that is operated by an operating association in the study-abroad candidate's native land corresponding to an association for generally operating the procedure for studying abroad of the study abroad candidate; an affiliated office server that is operated and managed by an institution for studying abroad determined by the study-abroad candidate as the institution targeted for studying abroad; and a relevant institution server that is linked with the affiliated office server and is operated by the institution for studying abroad targeted by the study-abroad candidate. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160163009 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EDUCATIONAL NETWORKING AND SERVICES - A system, method and computer program product for educational networking, including a computer server coupled to a communications network and configured to provide educational networking and services to users on client devices coupled to the computer server over the communications network, including automating application generation and processing at educational schools for the users on the client devices; searching and displaying on the client devices professors at the schools, schools to apply to, funding resources for attending the schools, and laboratories at the schools; and creating and displaying on the client devices school application portfolios, modifying school application portfolios, and generating and processing applications to selected schools. | 06-09-2016 |
