Multi-sided media viewer and technique for media association

Abstract

Provided is multi-sided media viewer and tTechnique for media association. A system provides a multi-sided media viewer capable of displaying media assets from an electronic archival news and content database. Each side of the media player contains different information regarding the media asset. A primary side 202 of the media asset may display a media asset related to an educational program, such as a course curriculum or the like. The secondary sides of the media viewer may contain additional information regarding that media asset, including personalized information generated by a system user as well as automatically populated information, such as information collected from other external news services or content providers. The system may further provide an educational game in which users are encouraged to find and draw connections between media assets to create an interconnection of related news items. The multi-sided media viewer may be a two-sided cue card, or a multidimensional news or content element having any number of sides depending on the additional information to be displayed with the media asset.

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technical field [0001] The present disclosure relates generally to collecting and displaying content on a computer, and more particularly to collecting and displaying content in a dynamic, user-adjustable manner. Background technique [0002] For years, educators have sought ways to enrich the educational environment by transferring learning to web-based learning. The World Wide Web provides a wealth of information that, if used correctly, can be a valuable learning resource for students. However, in some respects, such efforts have been hampered by the net amount of information available through the World Wide Web and the lack of categorization of such information. Also hampering such efforts is the lack of integration of content providers, the source of the vast amount of media content available on the World Wide Web and potentially useful to students, among course designers and teachers. Additionally, there is a lack of an effective means of presenting information to st...

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Problems solved by technology

However, in some respects the net amount of information available through the World Wide Web and the lack of categorization of this information has hampered such efforts

Also hampering such efforts is the lack of integration among content providers, the source of the vast amount of media content available on the World Wide Web and potentially useful to students, among course designers and teachers

Additionally, there is a lack of an effective means of presenting information to students in a manner that allows them to create mental connections between content available on the World Wide Web

As a result, students have no robust means of aggregating content into one centralized location, nor do they have a way to make connections between that content that would allow students to connect visually to content in a manner that demonstrates a high-level, deep understanding of topics of educational interest

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