Learner-Generated Question Conversion in Online Education
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional online education platforms are rigid and inflexible, making it difficult for learners and instructors to incorporate changes to course content, as they often require technical expertise beyond their capabilities.
Innovation Solution
An online education platform with an authoring tool that allows learners and instructors to create and convert questions into a compatible format, storing them in an assessment bank, where they can be sorted and selected for assessments, enabling the integration of learner-created content alongside instructor-created content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If conventional online education platforms use rigid and uniform course content delivery, then system stability and ease of management are improved, but adaptability and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The assessment bank is designed to be dynamic, allowing continuous addition, modification, and removal of questions. The system transitions from a static, fixed curriculum to a dynamic content management model where questions can be updated in real-time based on learner performance data and instructor feedback, resolving the contradiction between system stability and adaptability
Solution Approach 2:
The course content is segmented into discrete questions stored in an assessment bank, allowing individual questions to be independently managed, selected, and updated without affecting the entire course structure. This segmentation enables flexible content adaptation while maintaining overall system stability
2Manufacturing precision
If conventional online education platforms require technical expertise for content modification, then manufacturing precision and reliability are improved, but ease of operation and ease of manufacture deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
An automated content conversion service acts as an intermediary between user-submitted content and the assessment bank. The service automatically converts various question formats into the standardized assessment bank format, eliminating the need for users to have technical expertise while maintaining content quality through automated validation and formatting
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service content submission where learners and instructors can directly submit questions through user interfaces. The automated conversion and validation processes handle the technical requirements, allowing users without technical expertise to contribute quality content independently
3Reliability
If conventional online education platforms use standardized assessment questions, then reliability and measurement precision are improved, but adaptability and loss of information deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameters of assessment questions by allowing diverse question types, formats, and difficulty levels in the assessment bank. Questions can vary in structure, subject matter, and complexity while maintaining standardized evaluation criteria, thereby increasing content variety without sacrificing assessment reliability
4Device complexity
If conventional online education platforms lack user-generated content capabilities, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability and productivity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The assessment bank serves multiple functions: storing instructor-created questions, learner-generated questions, and automatically converted questions from various formats. This multi-functional design allows the system to handle diverse content sources without increasing complexity, while significantly improving content creation efficiency through automated processes
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AI summary
According to an implementation, a system includes an online education platform including a content manager configured to provide an authoring tool on a computing device associated with a learner of an online course. The authoring tool is configured to provide at least one user interface for creation of a learner-created question for an assessment for the online course. The content manager includes an education content converter configured to convert the learner-created question from a first format to a second format. The online education platform including an assessment bank configured to store the learner-created question, as well as other learner-created questions and instructor-created questions. The online education platform including a content selector configured to select a plurality of questions from the assessment bank for the assessment for the online course.