Machine Learning Model for Course Content Optimization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current course content creation tools lack the ability to recognize user behavioral patterns and provide recommendations for optimizing course content structures, resulting in suboptimal learner performance and limited guidance for content creators on effective content design.

Innovation Solution

The system collects and analyzes user behavior data from interactions with course content, converting it into parameters for a machine learning model that generates reports, predictions, and recommendations for improving user performance by identifying effective content structures and templates.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If course content creation tools are used, then content can be created and delivered to learners, but the tools lack the ability to recognize user behavioral patterns and provide optimization recommendations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser behavioral patternsVSAvoidcontent creation tool functionality
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A machine learning model serves as an intermediary between user behavior data and content creation tools. The model analyzes behavioral patterns from interaction data and translates them into actionable recommendations for optimizing course content structures, templates, and designs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a feedback loop where user interaction data is continuously collected, analyzed by the machine learning model to identify behavioral patterns, and used to generate recommendations that improve subsequent course content delivery and learner outcomes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If traditional content creation approaches are used, then content can be delivered, but learner performance optimization is limited due to lack of data-driven insights

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelearner performanceVSAvoiduser interaction patterns
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by automatically collecting user interaction data, analyzing behavioral patterns through machine learning, and generating optimization recommendations without requiring manual analysis, allowing content creators to continuously improve their courses based on automated insights.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The machine learning model analyzes changes in user interaction parameters (time spent, interaction frequency, completion rates) to identify behavioral patterns and determine how modifications to content structures and templates can optimize learner performance and engagement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If user behavior data is collected and analyzed through machine learning, then recommendations for improving learner performance can be generated, but data processing and analysis complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebehavioral pattern recognitionVSAvoiddata analysis system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the most relevant features and patterns from large volumes of user interaction data using the machine learning model, focusing on key behavioral indicators that directly impact learner performance while filtering out noise and irrelevant information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS20220358376A1Course content data analysis and prediction
Publication Date: 2022.11.10 PEARSON EDUCATION INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods of the present invention provide for receiving, from a content activity agent on a first client device, a content usage data; input, into a machine learning model, at least one content activity parameter, translated from the content usage data; generating, using an output from the machine learning model, a graphical user interface (GUI), displayed on a second client device, and including a report of: the output, a recommendation for an update to a course content, and a prediction of an increase to an average assessment score associated with the course content if the updated content is used.