Instructional support platform for interactive learning environments
First Claim
1. A method of identifying and summarizing subject matter for improving discussions in connection with an educational resource provided to students over network-connected devices, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) distributing an interactive educational resource over a network to a plurality of student devices, the student devices being associated with students currently enrolled in a class utilizing the educational resource;
(b) hosting, at a discussion server, an online discussion for receiving and making visible, to student devices assigned to a discussion group, annotations concerning the educational resource received by the discussion server from the student devices assigned to the discussion group;
(c) computationally analyzing annotations to identify high-quality annotations likely to generate responses and stimulate discussion threads;
(d) computationally identifying clusters of high-quality annotations relating to the same portion or related portions of the educational resource;
(e) for each cluster, extracting and summarizing text from the annotations indicative of a topic to which the annotations relate; and
(f) combining, in an electronically represented document, the extracted and summarized text and (i) at least some of the annotations and the portion or portions of the educational resource or (ii) clickable links thereto.
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Abstract
In various embodiments, subject matter for improving discussions in connection with an educational resource is identified and summarized by analyzing annotations made by students assigned to a discussion group to identify high-quality annotations likely to generate responses and stimulate discussion threads, identifying clusters of high-quality annotations relating to the same portion or related portions of the educational resource, extracting and summarizing text from the annotations, and combining, in an electronically represented document, the extracted and summarized text and (i) at least some of the annotations and the portion or portions of the educational resource or (ii) clickable links thereto.
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23 Claims
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1. A method of identifying and summarizing subject matter for improving discussions in connection with an educational resource provided to students over network-connected devices, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) distributing an interactive educational resource over a network to a plurality of student devices, the student devices being associated with students currently enrolled in a class utilizing the educational resource; (b) hosting, at a discussion server, an online discussion for receiving and making visible, to student devices assigned to a discussion group, annotations concerning the educational resource received by the discussion server from the student devices assigned to the discussion group; (c) computationally analyzing annotations to identify high-quality annotations likely to generate responses and stimulate discussion threads; (d) computationally identifying clusters of high-quality annotations relating to the same portion or related portions of the educational resource; (e) for each cluster, extracting and summarizing text from the annotations indicative of a topic to which the annotations relate; and (f) combining, in an electronically represented document, the extracted and summarized text and (i) at least some of the annotations and the portion or portions of the educational resource or (ii) clickable links thereto. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An educational system comprising:
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a plurality of student devices for executing an interactive educational resource received over a network, the student devices being configured to receive student annotations associated with the educational resource and transmit at least some of the annotations to a discussion server; a student database; a resource server in electronic communication with the student devices, the resource server comprising a communication module and being configured to make the resource available to student devices associated with students enrolled in a class; a discussion server, in electronic communication with the student devices, for receiving and making visible, to student devices assigned to a discussion group in the student database, annotations concerning the educational resource received from the student devices assigned to the discussion group; and an analysis module configured to (i) computationally analyze annotations to identify high-quality annotations likely to generate responses and stimulate discussion threads, (ii) computationally identify clusters of high-quality annotations relating to the same portion or related portions of the educational resource, (iii) for each cluster, extract and summarize text from the annotations indicative of a topic to which the annotations relate, and (iv) combine, in an electronically represented document, the extracted and summarized text and (a) at least some of the annotations and the portion or portions of the educational resource or (b) clickable links thereto. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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