42 results about "Education environment" patented technology

System and method for providing an interactive collaborative display for sharing electronic data in an educational environment. The system and method include a large format collaboration display that is capable of simultaneously displaying multiple documents and simultaneously accepting multiple inputs from multiple students. The system and method support multiple user simultaneous input through stylus input devices and offers a paper-like interface for edit electronic data. The system and method also offers real-time communications and collaboration tools and is also capable of running a variety of curriculum management tools and resources.

A computer-implemented method provides an educational environment in a virtual reality setting. Individuals navigate a virtual reality campus by using an avatar to interact with other users and to engage in learning experiences in the virtual setting. Individuals complete projects in virtual reality by accessing educational materials in electronic format and communicating with one another via text-based chats and real time audio. The virtual reality campus emulates a physical campus by providing meeting spaces and work areas where students spontaneously share information and complete pre-planned tasks. An electronic database tracks biographical and educational information about each user, that user's progress in achieving study goals, and the deliverables that the student produces to fulfill requirements of virtual instruction. The database also links to other systems, such as a registration database, so that the student's entire learning experience on both a physical campus and in virtual reality can be conveniently accessed electronically.

The invention provides a system and method for efficiently measuring and reporting performance relative to established learning outcomes for students, professors, classes, courses and programs. The invention provides an evidence-based approach to measuring student achievement and increasing educator accountability. Using associations between learning content, assessment content, and learning outcomes, the invention facilitates measurement of student achievement, content effectiveness, and teaching effectiveness, through reporting of student, class, teacher, course, and institution performance relative to set outcomes in an on-line educational environment.

A communication network includes an instructor wireless communication device and a plurality of student wireless communication devices, which may be conventional smartphones. The student devices do not communicate with the wireless service provider, but communicate with the instructor device in the classroom via a short-range communication network established between the student devices and the instructor device directly or via an access point. In one embodiment, communication with the cellphone network service provider is cut off by disabling the network transceiver in each student device. The instructor device can exchange question and answer data with the student devices. The system can be configured to provide security in student responses to prevent potential cheating. Student answers may be automatically collected, collated, and graded. The answers are accompanied by an ID that uniquely identifies each student. The system may further provide for automatic classroom attendance and participation by logging nonresponsive student devices.

The present invention is directed at a software system for use in an online educational environment. In one embodiment, a software system combines and allows communication between a student management system, a learning management system, and various other portals are interconnected and communicate with one another to allow for an completely integrated online educational institution that allows patents, students, and educators to plan and monitor a student's progress.

A communication system for communicating with students in an education environment includes a plurality of remote units, a base station that receives messages from the remote units, a processor, a memory, and a display simultaneously visible to all users of the remote units. The base station receives a response to a current question from a remote unit. The processor determines whether the current response is a valid response, and uses the display to visually indicate to a user of the remote unit whether the response is valid.

An immersive and interactive educational system for a child aged about 1 to about 10 years, comprising a digital processing device that is connected to the Internet and visual and audio content that creates an immersive and interactive educational environment for the child. The educational environment is characterized by comprising at least three subjects appropriate for the child, wherein each subject comprises a plurality of levels of learning; a plurality of learning activities associated with each subject; a software module for monitoring the progress of the child in each of the subjects; a software module for rewarding the child for completing an activity; and a software module for creating an avatar to represent the child. The plurality of activities associated with each subject teaches toward one or more educational objectives in a subject, is substantially free of activities not teaching toward one or more educational objectives in a subject, includes a book and at least one additional activity appropriate for the child, and includes one or more activities comprising a plurality of skill levels.

A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for providing feedback using networked devices. Initially, a plurality of response types are displayed on a plurality of networked devices. Further, a plurality of presented concepts are depicted on the networked devices. As such, users of a group are permitted to select at least one of the response types and at least one of the presented concepts. Further, the selected response type and the presented concepts are transmitted to a head of the group for providing feedback regarding material being presented by the head of the group.

An improved system, method, service method, and data structure that facilitates collaboration with, communication of, and access to information, particularly in an education environment is disclosed. The invention includes a database having one or more records. Each record defines a logical connection between one or more querents and one or more respondents. Each logical connection has a strength value indicating the value of the logical connection. Some embodiments of the invention include a selecting process that selects one or more of the respondents to respond to one or more queries from a querent. Alternative embodiments of the invention include processes that mine the database and / or provide services to users.

The present invention discloses a method and system for providing an education decision support library to enable user access to information, over a processor based network. The information assists the user in making an administrative decision. The method includes the steps of loading operational data from one or more sources into a database; providing one or more analytical tools that enable a user to manipulate the operational data; and accessing the one or more analytical tools over the processor based network to assist in an educational environment.

Various implementations of the present invention are provided as a network computer system configured to allow for creating, rating, tracking, monitoring, and disseminating user-created and user-customizable messages. The network computer system provides a user interface that allows a user to create templates for message creation, messages from the templates, ratings for messages (message “bias”), databases for storing templates and messages (message queue), and ratings, as well as storage for information related to the monitoring and tracking of messages as they are delivered to the intended recipients. The ability to create multiple messages, with disparate content, intended for disparate audiences, with batch sorting and sending, is also provided. Messages can be provided via commercial messaging services such as email, snail mail, telephone, SMS, facsimile, social media networking sites (e.g. Facebook® messages, Twitter®“tweets”, etc.). In some implementations of the invention, a computer-implemented method of messaging for an educational environment is provided.

The invention provides a system and method for efficiently measuring and reporting performance relative to established learning outcomes for students, professors, classes, courses and programs. The invention provides an evidence-based approach to measuring student achievement and increasing educator accountability. Using associations between learning content, assessment content, and learning outcomes, the invention facilitates measurement of student achievement, content effectiveness, and teaching effectiveness, through reporting of student, class, teacher, course, and institution performance relative to set outcomes in an on-line educational environment.

A personal locator device includes a housing that has a processor being coupled to a bus and a memory being coupled to the bus in the housing. The personal locator device also has a global positioning system comprising a receiver and a transmitter being coupled to the bus. The memory comprises an identification code. The personal locator device also has a mobile communication unit being coupled to the bus and a user interface comprising at least two inputs disposed on the housing. The personal locator device also has a power source. The transmitter is adapted to be controlled by the processor to provide a distress signal to a remote entity identifying the personal locator device by the identification code that a user associated with the personal locator device is in distress and the mobile communication unit is adapted to be programmable to at least two destinations to initiate communication to at least two individuals with each individual associated with one of the at least two inputs being preset in the memory. The personal locator device is adapted to not include a keypad for entering destination information individuals other than the at least two inputs being preset in the memory so the personal locator device qualifies to be carried in an setting that prohibits mobile telephones.

A system and processes for using the system to create a survey of a population for improvement in performance around a select set of categories is described. In the preferred embodiment, the process and questions are shown as applied to an educational environment. The system uses past data to refine the questions included in a survey and activities selected to have an impact in changing survey results in subsequent survey. The system includes a computerized database of survey questions and activities that are sorted through predictive equations to be most effective as a function of the demographics of the surveyed population.

A modular imager or camera system is selectively communicatively coupleable to a portable computing device. The camera system may include interchangeable lenses, and coupling structure to physically removably couple to other device, for instance microscopes. The camera system may also have the capability to connect, receive input from, or provide output to one or more input devices or output devices, which may be connected either in addition to or in place of an image sensor. The portable computing device may run one or more apps which receive and / or process images or other data from the camera system, control the camera system, and / or share images and other information between multiple portable computing devices and / or camera systems. Such is particularly useful in educational settings, allowing students or groups of students to operate respective camera systems and share images, for example under control of a teacher or facilitator.

The invention provides a dedicated cloud desktop for education based on cloud services. A user logs in the user access cloud desktop by using different terminals, then identity information and authority are authenticated, a cloud server pushes a service catalog to login equipment after the identity authentication passes, and the service catalog is pushed at the login terminal to display cloud desktop services. Various education resources are integrated together by the cloud server, and then users select the resources via different authorities, so that normal operation of the cloud server is guaranteed; in addition, an adaptive plug-in module adapts to different login equipment, thereby solving the problem that the traditional cloud desktop can only adapt to one display screen; moreover, different resources are reasonably utilized by displaying the cloud desktop services, thereby solving the problem that the traditional education resources are influenced by regions and education environments.

An educational restaurant and travel game system and method of use include a plurality of educational games each having a plurality of game pieces disposed in a game container. The game container is adapted to house the plurality of educational games and has a size and shape so that the game container is adapted for portability. A game book setting forth rules for each of the educational games, age ranges, number of players, list of items needed, a stated educational objective, and an educational goal is included within the container. Reading, math, fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, memory enhancement and retention, and social skills games are included within the compact travel container. Playing the games of the educational restaurant and travel game system fosters an educational environment, while at the same time offers entertainment and quality family interaction. The game system finds use during travel and during moments of idle time for children, such as doctor's office and restaurant visits. Its entertaining and educational features further commend it for use in a home or school environment.

A student assessment software system that utilizes digital capture technologies to allow students to combine video recordings of computer activities they as they appear on a computer display with explanations that take the form of a narrated voice track. The invention allows the transmission of these screencast files to occur in a safe, secure, and highly efficient network environment conducive for educational settings where various levels of hierarchical management are assigned to roles to include but not be limited to students, teachers, parents and administrators.

In a computer-implemented educational environment, four particular features are provided, which may be used separately or in combination, to drive the instruction of a particular curriculum, e.g. the instruction of fractions. In another implementation, educators and authors may use permutations and combinations of such features to construct in a graphical user interface a progression of interactive elements which help guide a student from visual concepts to procedures, such as equations and formulas. In a particular implementation, by using these features carefully, a curriculum author may design instructional sequences that provide careful, step-by-step sequences that help students progress from understanding the visual concepts, e.g. of fractions, to mastering procedures, e.g. fractions equations.

A set of rules are applied to information relating to student activity in online courses, to form a set of progress indicators. Each morning, dashboards are generated for instructors showing the set of progress indicators, so that the instructors have the latest pertinent information to ensure students are progressing properly. By proactively focusing on the progress indicators, instructors are able to ensure student success.

Embodiments of the present invention comprise an interactive educational environment including educational games deployed in a computing environment, where the games provide a life-like simulation of a concept about which a student has recently been instructed. The games provide different scenarios and the tools that would be utilized in the real-world situation, allowing the user to make life-like decisions without the real-world risk associated with the decisions. The educational games may be adaptable to a particular student such that the games reinforce teaching and learning in a way that is suitable and most effective to the particular student. Learning may be reinforced by the use of a morale indicator that is configured to indicate the overall morale resulting from a particular user's decision. The educational games may be configured to reside in an overall approach to teaching and learning that comprises sets of central and peripheral nodes, where each peripheral node becomes the central node for a subsequent set of peripheral nodes.

The present invention comprises a system and method for monitoring participants in an educational environment and comprises: obtaining a set of predefined parameters, obtaining a first data set and a second data set, wherein the first data set comprises standardized summary data relating to the educational environment and the second data set comprises non-standardized granular data relating to the educational environment, converting the second data set into a standardized data set (a third data set) by identifying relationships between a value in the first data set and a value in the second data set, storing the standardized data sets in a consolidated data set on a memory resource, and generating a notification when the data in the consolidated data set satisfies the set of predefined parameters.

A system for evaluating a student's education value and proposing method of improving said value. The system receives public and private information about a student's education. The system obtains comparative education value by comparing attributes and rankings among students of different populations. The system offers estimates of education value change for a student by modifying various attributes of a student.

The invention discloses an immersive interactive CAVE classroom for preschool education. The immersive interactive CAVE classroom comprises a hardware standardization system, a software standardization system and an interactive teaching aid system which are connected with one another, wherein the hardware standardization system comprises CAVE multi-projection environment systems which are connected with one another and are used for establishing a VR education environment capable of achieving interactive experience, a multi-point touch interaction system which is used for establishing an immersive interaction environment which can be participated by a plurality of persons in a cooperative manner, a ground positioning interaction system which is used for establishing an immersive interactionenvironment for collaborative participation of multiple persons, and an entity teaching aid interaction system which is used for constructing a tool for constructing a virtual world and a real world.The immersive interaction CAVE classroom for preschool education has the advantages of being low in price cost, high in immersion, more suitable for natural man-machine interaction of children, convenient to use, free of dizziness or low in dizziness, low in space requirement and capable of meeting the requirement for multi-user interaction, and being more suitable for natural man-machine interaction of children.

The invention provides an intelligent education system and method based on virtual reality, and the system comprises a data collection module which is used for collecting data which comprises the characteristics and behavior data of a user; a processing module used for processing the data; a portrait module used for performing user personality feature induction and extraction according to the datato form a user portrait of each user; a virtual reality module used for providing an immersive teaching environment according to the data. According to the invention, by obtaining the data generatedby various informatization systems in the education environment, various intelligent hardware devices and the Internet, and using big data intelligent analysis and immersive virtual reality teaching,a personalized student portrait is formed, students are helped to carry out learning planning and learning diagnosis, the final target of intelligent education can be achieved more quickly, the real individualized education is achieved, and the education related personnel are assisted to make relevant decisions.

A communication network includes an instructor wireless communication device and a plurality of student wireless communication devices, which may be conventional smartphones. The student devices do not communicate with the wireless service provider, but communicate with the instructor device in the classroom via a short-range communication network established between the student devices and the instructor device directly or via an access point. In one embodiment, communication with the cellphone network service provider is cut off by disabling the network transceiver in each student device. The instructor device can exchange question and answer data with the student devices. The system can be configured to provide security in student responses to prevent potential cheating. Student answers may be automatically collected, collated, and graded. The answers are accompanied by an ID that uniquely identifies each student. The system may further provide for automatic classroom attendance and participation by logging nonresponsive student devices.

A personal locator device includes a housing that has a processor being coupled to a bus and a memory being coupled to the bus in the housing. The personal locator device also has a global positioning system comprising a receiver and a transmitter being coupled to the bus. The memory comprises an identification code. The personal locator device also has a mobile communication unit being coupled to the bus and a user interface comprising at least two inputs disposed on the housing. The personal locator device also has a power source. The transmitter is adapted to be controlled by the processor to provide a distress signal to a remote entity identifying the personal locator device by the identification code that a user associated with the personal locator device is in distress and the mobile communication unit is adapted to be programmable to at least two destinations to initiate communication to at least two individuals with each individual associated with one of the at least two inputs being preset in the memory. The personal locator device is adapted to not include a keypad for entering destination information individuals other than the at least two inputs being preset in the memory so the personal locator device qualifies to be carried in an setting that prohibits mobile telephones.