Learning Management System Activity Stream Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional Learning Management Systems (LMS) struggle to effectively integrate new technologies and features, such as social networking, into their existing platforms, leading to high development costs and limitations in providing a dynamic, engaging learning experience for diverse student populations across different cultural backgrounds.
Innovation Solution
A learning management system that authenticates student entries and selectively displays activity streams from associated contacts, allowing for personalized and concurrent delivery of instructional materials and social networking features, enabling students to engage with a wide range of activity streams tailored to their learning sessions and courses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional LMS integrate new technologies and features such as social networking into existing platforms, then functionality and student engagement are improved, but development costs and system complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the LMS into modular components: core learning management functions remain separate from social networking features. Activity streams and contact management are implemented as independent modules that can be selectively enabled, allowing the system to provide enhanced functionality without increasing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The activity stream mechanism serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays contact information, delivers course notifications, enables social interaction, and provides learning resources. This multi-functional approach allows the system to achieve versatility without adding separate dedicated systems for each function.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional LMS integrate social networking features, then student engagement is improved, but development costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an activity stream as an intermediary layer between the LMS core and social networking features. This mediator handles contact management, activity display, and notification delivery without requiring deep integration into the core LMS architecture, thereby reducing development costs while maintaining student engagement capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements activity streams that replicate social networking functionality within the LMS environment. Rather than integrating external social networking platforms, the patent creates internal copies of these features using the activity stream mechanism, reducing dependency on external systems and associated development costs.
3Loss of information
If activity streams from all contacts are displayed concurrently, then information completeness is improved, but information overload and student distraction increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic filtering of activity streams based on student context. The system automatically adjusts which contact activity streams are displayed according to the current course context, student preferences, and timing, ensuring information completeness while preventing overload through adaptive control.
Solution Approach 2:
Different activity streams are assigned different levels of visibility and priority based on their relevance to the current learning context. Course-related contacts receive higher priority display, while less relevant contacts are subdued or hidden, creating local quality variations in information presentation that prevent overwhelming the student.
4Ease of operation
If the system provides personalized activity streams for each learning session, then relevance and engagement are improved, but system complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary organization of contacts and activity streams during course setup and student enrollment. Contact lists are pre-filtered and categorized by course relevance, and activity stream templates are pre-configured. This preliminary action reduces the processing burden during actual learning sessions while maintaining personalization.
Solution Approach 2:
Students are empowered to self-manage their activity stream preferences, contact selections, and visibility settings. The system provides automated recommendations based on course context, but allows students to independently adjust their information flow without requiring complex system-wide reconfiguration, thereby reducing processing requirements while maintaining personalization.
Data Source
AI summary
A learning management system and method delivers an instructional material to a student workstation after authenticating an student's entry into a learning session that is associated with a plurality of contacts. Stored electronic addresses in a database include a first electronic address that is associated with a first contact and a second electronic address that is associated with a second contact. The first contact is associated with the learning session and the second contact is not associated with the learning session. A first activity stream associated with the first contact and a second activity stream associated with the second contact is selectively displayed to the student such that upon detection of student's entry into the learning session, the first activity stream is displayed without displaying the second activity stream and the second activity stream is displayed upon detection of student's exit from the learning session either with displaying the first activity stream or without displaying the first activity stream.