Method and system for active learning

• US 10,460,616 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Active Learning Solutions Holding Limited
• Original Assignee: Active Learning Solutions Holding Limited
• Inventors: Wong, Howard Hing Hoi, Mak, Kevin Kam Wo
• Primary Examiner(s): Utama, Robert J
• Application Number:
  US15/389,435
• Publication Number:
  US 20170103664A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,041 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/065 Combinations of audio and video presentations, e.g. videotapes, videodiscs, television systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/07 providing for individual presentation of questions to a plurality of student stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

A method and system for conducting interactive classroom learning that can utilize a plurality of electronic audio and video equipment, mobile computing devices, and processing servers, interconnected via a first network infrastructure in a classroom or presentation hall to deliver seamlessly interactive multimedia contents to each of one or more participants in classroom or presentation hall; wherein the participants comprises one or more lecturers or presenters, and one or more students or audiences. The method and system allow the control and coordination of the electronic audio and video equipment, mobile computing devices, and the processing servers to deliver the interactive multimedia contents to the participants in the classroom or presentation hall simultaneously and to facilitate the information input-output interactions to and from the participants; wherein the interactive multimedia contents can be divided into multiple parts or streams, and each being personalized for each or each subset of the participants.

Claims

1. A system for conducting interactive learning session in a classroom or presentation in a presentation hall, comprising:

a first network infrastructure;

a first processing server connected to the first network infrastructure and configured to serve multimedia lecture or presentation material content data and exchange data from one or more mobile computing devices connected to the first network infrastructure;

the one or more mobile computing devices, each having a computer processor configured for receiving and displaying the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data, facilitating user input, and receiving the input data;

wherein each computer processor of the at least one mobile computing device adapted to be used by a lecturer or presenter is configured to provide a user interface to be used by lecturer or presenter;

and each computer processor of the two or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience is configured to provide a user interface to be used by students or audience;

wherein the first processing server and the one or more mobile computing devices are interconnected via the first network infrastructure;

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to control and monitor display, sound volume, power on/off, sleep mode on/off, interactive multimedia contents playback, access authorization to data in the first processing server, network resource access, network connectivity, volume, storage capacity, battery level, and general device conditions of each of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience;

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to control and monitor the first network infrastructure, adjusting and segmenting connectivity coverage area of the first network infrastructure, enabling and disabling network connections and networked resource accesses of each of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience;

wherein the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience being divided into two or more logical sub-groups of one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience according to user input received by the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter;

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to control real-time delivery of one or more different parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data to each of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience, and to control which one or more parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data being delivered to each of the logical sub-groups;

wherein the one or more different parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data are delivered to the one or more mobile computing devices simultaneously, enabling a real-time synchronized interactive lecture or presentation experience among the students or audience in the classroom or presentation hall;

wherein the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data is divided into the one or more different parts according to a pre-configured setting or user input received by the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter; and

wherein each of the one or more mobile computing devices is further configured in to synchronize playback of content data and user interface action with the other one or more mobile computing devices such that when one of the mobile computing devices is interrupted in the playback of content data or user interface action, playback of content data or user interface action in the other mobile computing devices is stopped until the interruption is resolved.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising

one or more electronic audio and video equipment for receiving and displaying one or more different parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data;

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to control real-time delivery of one or more different parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data to each of the audio and video equipment and to control which one or more parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data being delivered to each of the audio and video equipment; and

wherein the one or more different parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data are delivered to the audio and video equipment simultaneously, enabling a real-time synchronized interactive lecture or presentation experience among the students or audience in the classroom or presentation hall.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a second network infrastructure; and

a second processing server connected to the second network infrastructure and configured to store the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data to be retrieved by the first processing server also connected to the second network infrastructure.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to facilitate group participation or competition in a lecture session on literature composition for the students or audience;

wherein each of the logical sub-groups of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience receives one or more different parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data;

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to control which one or more parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data being delivered to each of the logical sub-groups of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience;

wherein each of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience is further configured in their computer processors to receive input of a text composition, and to simultaneously and in real-time display a combined text composition of one or more input of text compositions received by one or more other the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience within the same logical sub-group; and

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to receive and display the combined text composition of each logical sub-group of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to facilitate participation or competition in a question-and-answer session for the students or audience;

wherein each of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience receives one or more different parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data, wherein each part of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data comprises at least one question;

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to control which one or more parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data being delivered to each of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience;

wherein each of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience is further configured in their computer processors to receive input of one or more answers to the one or more questions within the one or more parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data received and displayed;

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to receive and display the one or more answers received by the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience; and

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to display performance statistics, wherein the performance statistics include a percentage of corrected answers for each question, number of corrected answers received from each of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience, answering time for each question for each of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience, and number of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience from which certain answer selections are received on each of the questions.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the lecturer or presenter, by using the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to facilitate a voting session for the students or audience;

wherein each of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience receives one or more different parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data, wherein each part of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data comprises a series of sets of selectable items;

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to control which one or more parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data being delivered to each of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience;

wherein each of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience is further configured in their computer processors to receive input of item selections for each of the sets of selectable items within the one or more parts of the multimedia lecture or presentation material content data received and displayed;

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to receive and display the item selections for the sets of selectable items received by the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience; and

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to display vote statistics.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to create and configure the logical sub-group division of the one or more mobile computing devices adapted to be used by students or audience.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to create and configure a leader for each of the logical sub-groups.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising one or more location-based beacons each installed at or near a point-of-interest;

wherein the one or more mobile computing devices are further configured to receive data signal transmitted by the location-based beacons.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising one or more wearable beacons each worn by a student or audience;

wherein the mobile computing device adapted to be used by the lecturer or presenter is further configured to receive data signal transmitted by the wearable beacons.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising one or more location-based beacons each installed at or near a point-of-interest;

and one or more wearable beacons each worn by a student or audience;

wherein the location-based beacons are configured to receive data signal transmitted by the wearable beacons.