1644 results about "Coursework" patented technology

A system and methods for implementing education online by providing institutions with the means for allowing the creation of courses to be taken by students online, the courses including assignments, announcements, course materials, chat and whiteboard facilities, and the like, all of which are available to the students over a network such as the Internet. Various levels of functionality are provided through a three-tiered licensing program that suits the needs of the institution offering the program. In addition, an open platform system is provided such that anyone with access to the Internet can create, manage, and offer a course to anyone else with access to the Internet without the need for an affiliation with an institution, thus enabling the virtual classroom to extend worldwide.

A multimedia authoring system uses a graphic interface display which is implemented as a part of a flow editor and is used to create and to program interactive multimedia presentations and coursework. The authoring system also includes other editors (e.g., a database editor, an expression editor, and an object editor) used to perform other editing functions required to create presentations. The system also includes control systems (e.g., an applications mover, a videodisc controller, and a help system) which also enable the user to create, program, execute and manipulate interactive multimedia presentations. Finally, the system includes an evaluator which evaluates a programmed presentation and implements the presentation. A process of creating and evaluating a presentation using selectable icons from an icon menu area of the display screen and a grid area of the display screen includes receiving an input selecting an icon from the icon menu area, storing in the memory a data structure associated with the selected icon, displaying a new icon corresponding to the data structure on the grid area, and performing an action represented by an action identifier included in the data structure.

A computer system is configured to administer a psychological profiling test to a participant in a driver education program, or receive such profile from another source; to determine the participant's psychological profile. The system then selects a driver education program for the participant based on the profile. The system also selects a method of delivering the curriculum to the participant based on the profile. The system further selects a method of testing the participant's comprehension and retention of the curriculum material, also based on the profile. The system delivers the selected curriculum to the participant using the selected delivery method, verifies attendance or participation, and tests the participant's comprehension and retention of the curriculum material using the selected testing method.

The purpose of the present invention is to offer distance-learning courses to students around the world by using the Internet. The courses offered will contain audio and/or video feeds showing the teachers teaching in a classroom setting, transmit the notes being made by teachers on a regular computer using a pen mouse or a tablet PC or on an electronic whiteboard as they teach, and also conduct quizzes for students. The students will be able to use the system interactively, including submitting responses to the quizzes and assignments, as well as accessing previously “broadcast” lectures of the courses.

The present invention provides a learning system wherein students are provided with course content via the Internet and perform learning activities online. The students can be paired with teachers and other students as needed for learning. The system provides monitoring of students' activities with the learning material, and provides ranking of student abilities and needs, teacher abilities and weakness, and content effectiveness, and can match teachers and students based on student needs and teacher abilities to meet those needs. The system allows for dynamic updating of content, and provides suggested content based on effectiveness. Video conferencing with teachers can be scheduled.

A method for advertising for sale classroom materials and services such as textbooks, laboratory tools, class notes and tutoring over a communication network. The classroom materials and services are linked to specific courses or classes offered by a particular school. Students would then be able to sell their used textbooks, lab tools, class notes and tutoring service to fellow students at the same school allowing for quicker transactions.

A system and methods of virtual schooling, which provide an Internet-based elementary and secondary school that is committed to offering a complete and comprehensive education to all pupils. The curriculum used in the system and methods is Web-deployed and database-driven. Its subjects include, but are not necessarily limited to History/Civics/Geography, Language Arts, Math, Music, Science, and Visual Arts. Preferably, lessons should integrate on-line and off-line instructional materials for a well-rounded learning experience.

Computer method and apparatus enable customization of lesson plans per student. The invention method and apparatus include a curriculum data store holding a plurality of curriculum records, a student record data store and a processor routine coupled to the student record data store and the curriculum data store. Each curriculum record indicates a respective teaching activity and implementation details of the activity as part of a lesson plan. There are different activities for different domains. The processor routine enables, for a given student, educator-user selection of a curriculum record with its respective activity, as a function of assessed skill level in a subject domain and/or learning profile of the student. The processor routine generates a custom lesson plan, for the given student, that includes the activity of the user-selected curriculum record. The processor routine may suspend or otherwise hold the custom lesson plan pending supervisory review at various times.

A computer-implemented method for teaching basal math and science may include: testing a student with a computerized test to produce a completed test; scoring the completed test on a computer to produce a score; determining a grade level for the student based on the score; generating a weak areas assessment for the student based on the completed test; and generating a computer-based individualized learning plan based on the determined grade level, a curriculum, and the weak areas assessment. The method may further include providing computerized coursework to a student based on the individualized learning plan.

The invention relates to a remote streaming media on-line teachering method which supports ordering program and live program functions of a network information technic field. By B/S communication and interactive implementation, a server runs Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and provides Internet Information Service and Windows Media Service, a client performs on-line courses, on-line examinations, real-time disabusing and message leaving disabusing via an Internet Explorer page. The invention is capable of vividly representing course content, largely improving teaching quality. At the same time, functions of on-line examinations, real-time disabusing and message leaving disabusing can be realized, a teaching circumstance in which teachers and students are interactive is fully simulated in a network. The invention has complete functions, operates stably and reliably, reacts on effect of network remote teaching.

The invention provides a lesson content real-time live broadcasting method and system. Operation instructions are separated from audio and video stream data through a scrip mode, the bandwidth requirement is effectively lowered, and the smoothness and the screen suitability of playing are improved. The method comprises the following steps that configuration data of a service side are obtained, and client sides are initialized, wherein the client sides comprise the teaching client side and the student client sides; the starting time of a lesson is obtained, and live broadcasting is conducted on the lesson; display data of the teacher client side are obtained and synchronized to the other student client sides; obtaining of audio and video data is started or stopped according to the request of the teacher client side or the authorized student client side; the obtained audio and video data are transmitted to other client sides in real time; operation data of the teacher client side and the operation data of the authorized student client sides are obtained and transmitted to other client sides in real time; chat record data input by the client side are obtained and transmitted to other client sides in real time; the ending time of the lesson is obtained, and the live broadcasting of the lesson is ended.

A method and an apparatus for teaching through assessment-directed individualized instruction using a series of interrelated interactive and linear lessons on a computer or computer network. In an embodiment, subject matter is broken into dependent and independent skills and concepts. Students are presented the skills and concepts in skill/sub-skill teaching cycles that incorporate concept-teaching activities, guided practices, independent practices, and assessments. The progress of the student is tracked in a knowledge base. The teaching of each student is customized based upon the level of understanding of each skill and concept. In an embodiment, the student is allowed to proceed even though the student has not achieved a predetermined level of understanding of past skills and concepts as these concepts will be re-introduced over time based upon evaluations of the knowledge base as needed until mastery is developed.

The invention discloses a teaching system based on an internet, facial expression recognition and speech recognition and a realizing method of the teaching system. The realizing method comprises the following steps: S1, playing contents of teaching courses by a first terminal; S2, acquiring video data information, speech data information of a user and user operation in the playing process; S3, transmitting the information and the user operation to a main control processor; S4, extracting facial features and pronunciation features of the user into an analysis processor by the main control processor; S5, respectively comparing the facial features and the pronunciation features with standard templates by the analysis processor; S6, dynamically adjusting the played contents of the teaching courses or/and teaching procedures by the main control processor according to current operation of the user and feedback of the analysis processor, or transmitting a comparison result to a second terminal by a cloud platform in real time. The teaching system disclosed by the invention is teaching software with the characteristics of mobility, entertainment, sociability and the like and can provide a chance for students to study independently outside class at any time and any place; by means of an online teaching mode for assisting real persons, a traditional mode for teaching Chinese as a foreign language is improved.

A data mining system extracts job opening information and derives, for a given job, relevant competencies and derives, for a given candidate, relevant competencies, for the candidate. In some embodiments, the data mining performs authentication of relevant competencies before performing matching. The matching outputs can be used to provide data to a candidate indicating possible future competencies to obtain, to provide data to a teaching organization indicating possible future competencies to cover in their coursework, and to provide data to employers related to what those teaching organizations are covering.

The invention provides a lesson content video recoding and replaying method and system. Operation instructions are separated from audio and video stream data through a script mode, the bandwidth requirement is effectively lowered, and the smoothness and the screen suitability of playing are improved. The method comprises a video recoding process and a replaying process. The video recoding process comprises the steps of obtaining configuration data of a server side, and initializing client sides; obtaining the starting time of a lesson, and starting video recording; obtaining display data of the teacher client side; starting or stopping obtaining of audio or video data according to the request of the teacher client side of the authorized student client side; recording the operation data of the teacher client side and the operation data of the authorized student client side; recording all chat record data in the lesson; obtaining the ending time of the lesson, and stopping video recording; transmitting all the data of the lesson to a data storage end, adding a lesson ID to the data, and then saving the data. The replaying process comprises the steps that the client sides extract the data of the lesson from the data storage end according to the ID of the lesson; the client sides analyze the data of the lesson and replay the data through a playing module.

A location based system for conducting learning sessions comprises a geolocation server that is configured to access location information for students and/or teachers. Geo-location information as used herein comprises student or teacher location information or relative proximity of students to each other, teacher to students as well as teacher or students relative to a place of interest. An enrollment module is configured to enroll the students in courses that are taught by teachers. A learning session management module is configured to manage learning sessions associated with the courses based on student location information and/or teacher location information.

The invention discloses a course recommendation method based on students' attributes. The course recommendation method comprises the following steps: S1, calculating the similarity between target students and other students according to the students' attributes and finding out a 'neighbor' student collection similar to the target students in elective hobby; S2, finding out courses which are not elected by the target students but elected by 'neighbor' students to recommend. According to the course recommendation method, based on students' attribute data, more accurate course recommendation can be realized, and meanwhile, higher recall rate and coverage rate are obtained.

The invention discloses a classroom teaching effect evaluation system based on facial expression recognition. According to the invention, videos in a classroom are analyzed in real time; the facial expressions of students in class are extracted, and the understanding degree, the activity degree, the doubtful degree and the activity time index information of the students in class are counted and analyzed, so that teachers can know the psychological states of the students and the mastery degree of the students on the knowledge points, the teachers can adopt corresponding teaching regulation andcontrol means, and the teaching quality of the class is improved; The classroom expression state of the teacher is automatically analyzed, the classroom expression index of the teacher is counted, andthe classroom emotion basis is provided for teaching management personnel to examine the teacher. The classroom expressions of teachers and students are recorded, the classroom expression indexes ofthe teachers and the students are obtained through statistical analysis, and the indexes serve as reference indexes for classroom teaching evaluation and have comprehensiveness and objectivity. the classroom teaching effect of the target course in each school for course reform is counted as a reference. Through the technical scheme of the invention, teachers and teaching management personnel can better accomplish the teaching concept taking students as the main part.

A method and system for online education that includes an educator provider system and at least one student system connected via a network means so that at least one lesson can be transmitted from the provider system to the student system. One embodiment of the present invention uses an interactive lesson with at least one audio file that controls the pace of the presentation of the lesson. The present invention can further comprise a mechanism for generating a lesson completion record after a student has completed the lesson. The lesson completion record is immediately transmitted upon completion of the lesson to a student and/or an education authority in order to certify that the student has completed the lesson and has spent the requisite minimum time period on that lesson.

The invention relates to a learning system based on a multi-platform terminal and a cloud service and an operation method thereof. The learning system comprises the multi-platform terminal, a communication network and a cloud service platform. The multi-platform terminal is connected with the cloud service platform through the communication network. When the learning system is utilized for learning, a user can interact with the course anytime and anywhere. After completion of learning, analytic statistics is performed on big data based on cloud computing so that the learning effect is easy to assess and the whole learning process can be optimized. The teaching mode of watching the video course and periodic online teaching of the conventional online teaching system can be thoroughly changed so that real interactive learning can be realized.