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System for measuring effectiveness of an interactive online learning system

  • US 10,325,510 B2
  • Filed: 12/15/2016
  • Issued: 06/18/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An interactive system for facilitating interaction between a plurality of users including at least one teacher and at least one student, the interactive system comprising:

  • a plurality of computing devices, wherein each of the plurality of computing devices is accessible to a corresponding user of the plurality of users, and each of the plurality of computing devices includesa user interface for the corresponding user, wherein the user interface is configured to enable the corresponding user to activate an interaction session amongst a selected set of the plurality of users, and the user interface comprises a whiteboard module including a writing area configured to enable the corresponding user to provide written content and view written content provided by other users amongst the selected set of the plurality of users participating in the interaction session, anda plurality of interactive tools coupled to the user interface and configured to enable the corresponding user to communicate with the selected set of the plurality of users via the user interface, wherein the plurality of interactive tools comprises a camera and a microphone configured to capture video data and audio data from the corresponding user during the interaction session;

    a session data module coupled to the plurality of computing devices and configured to acquire session data including the written content, the video data, and the audio data from each of the plurality of computing devices during the interaction session, wherein the session data module comprisesa text capturing module configured to acquire the written content provided via the whiteboard module from the plurality of computing devices engaged in the interaction session,a video data module configured to acquire the video data from the plurality of computing devices engaged in the interaction session, andan audio data module configured to acquire the audio data from the plurality of computing devices engaged in the interaction session;

    a processing engine coupled to the session data module and configured toanalyze the session data including the written content, the video data, and the audio data to determine session parameters including a plurality of writing parameters, a plurality of video parameters, and a plurality of audio parameters for each user,compute an effectiveness score and an engagement score based on the session parameters, wherein the effectiveness score indicates a level of effectiveness of a corresponding teacher and the engagement score indicates a level of engagement of a corresponding student during the interaction session, and the effectiveness score and the engagement score are continuously computed for the corresponding teacher and the corresponding student for a duration of the interaction session, andcompute a quality score for the interaction session, wherein the quality score correlates to the effectiveness score of the corresponding teacher and the engagement score of the corresponding student; and

    a notification module coupled to the plurality of computing devices and configured to transmit the effectiveness score and the engagement score to corresponding computing devices at regular intervals within the duration of the interaction session and at an end of the interaction session, includingtransmitting the effectiveness score to a first computing device of the corresponding teacher, wherein the effectiveness score is displayed to the corresponding teacher via a first score panel of the user interface of the first computing device, andtransmitting the engagement score to the first computing device of the corresponding teacher and to a second computing device of the corresponding student, wherein the engagement score is displayed to the corresponding teacher via the first score panel and to the corresponding student via a second score panel of the user interface of the second computing device.

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