Automated Tutoring Model for Adaptive Educational Content Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional tutoring methods often fail to provide individualized instruction, struggling to adapt to unique learning needs and styles of students.

Innovation Solution

An automated tutoring model that uses a processor and memory to deliver adaptive educational content by receiving user prompts, extracting linguistic data, classifying users into learner groups, and selecting relevant educational data from a database to present to the user.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional one-size-fits-all tutoring approaches are used, then the tutoring system is simple to implement, but it fails to provide individualized instruction and adapt to unique learning needs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to individual learning needsVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments users into different learner groups based on their characteristics and learning needs extracted from prompts. This segmentation enables tailored educational content delivery to different user types while maintaining a unified system architecture, resolving the contradiction between personalization and system simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes parameters such as educational data selection, response style, and content format based on extracted linguistic data and user classification. This allows the system to adapt to individual learning needs without requiring complete system redesign, balancing adaptability with implementation feasibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Measurement precision

If automated tutoring model with user classification is implemented, then personalized educational content is provided, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprecision of educational content matchingVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary classification of users into learner groups based on their prompts before delivering educational content. This pre-processing step enables faster content retrieval and delivery while maintaining high precision in matching educational material to user needs, reducing overall processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses linguistic data extraction and classification to create simplified representations of user needs and characteristics. These copied features enable rapid matching with educational content without requiring full analysis of every user interaction, thus reducing processing time while maintaining matching precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Loss of information

If comprehensive linguistic data extraction and user classification are performed, then relevant educational data is accurately determined, but the complexity of data processing increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverelevance of educational dataVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential linguistic data and features from user prompts that are relevant for classification and content matching. This selective extraction maintains high relevance of educational data while avoiding unnecessary processing complexity by focusing only on critical information elements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The linguistic data extraction and classification system serves multiple functions simultaneously: user classification, educational content selection, and response style determination. This multi-functionality reduces overall system complexity by consolidating multiple processing tasks into a unified framework rather than requiring separate systems for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12307919B1Apparatus and method for delivering adaptive educational content
Publication Date: 2025.05.20 CENGAGE LEARNING
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AI summary

In a first aspect, an apparatus for delivering adaptive educational content using an automated tutoring model includes a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor is presented. The memory contains instructions configuring the processor to receive a prompt from a user. The processor, extract linguistic data from the prompt through an automated tutoring model. The processor is configured to determine, through the automated tutoring model, relevant educational data for the user based on the linguistic data of the prompt. The automated tutoring model is configured to classify the user to a learner group based on the prompt. The automated tutoring model is in communication with and selects the relevant educational data from an educational database based at least on the learner group. The processor is configured to present the selected relevant educational data to the user through a display device in communication with the processor.