Computer-aided design and production of an online learning course
First Claim
23. A system for designing an on-line course to be offered on a deployment server computer to client computers capable of communicating with the deployment server computer via the Internet, comprising:
- an on-line course development server;
one or more course design work stations configured to communicate with the on-line course development server;
a course compiler; and
memory, coupled to the on-line course development server, for storing functional learning object tools useable to construct one or more learning molecules, each learning molecule defining a course topic around which a learning experience is organized, wherein the on-line course development server is accessible by one or more course designers via the one or more course design work stations to assemble a web-based, on-line course using one or more clusters of learning object tools defining one or more learning molecules, wherein the on-line course development server is configured to establish a web page for each learning object in the defined one or more learning molecules, and wherein the course compiler is configured to compile the web pages into a finished web-based, on-line course.
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Abstract
A computer-aided method for deigning and producing an online course is described. An electronic online course structure is generated using one or more clusters of learning objects corresponding to learning molecules. Each learning molecule defines a course topic around which a learning experience is organized. An XML course structure document is generated from an electronic online course overview. During an initial phase of development, one or more directories of placeholder course web pages are automatically generated to mirror the course structure defined in the course structure document. Each placeholder course web page corresponds to one of the learning objects associated with each learning molecule. During a second phase of development, course content is produced for each learning object, and learning objects are embedded into the placeholder web pages. Web page properties are defined for each course web page. Navigational hyperlinks are created between the course web pages based on the hierarchy described in the course structure document. The web pages are compiled into a finished web-based online course and provided as a software product or sent to an online course deployment server.
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38 Claims
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23. A system for designing an on-line course to be offered on a deployment server computer to client computers capable of communicating with the deployment server computer via the Internet, comprising:
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an on-line course development server;
one or more course design work stations configured to communicate with the on-line course development server;
a course compiler; and
memory, coupled to the on-line course development server, for storing functional learning object tools useable to construct one or more learning molecules, each learning molecule defining a course topic around which a learning experience is organized, wherein the on-line course development server is accessible by one or more course designers via the one or more course design work stations to assemble a web-based, on-line course using one or more clusters of learning object tools defining one or more learning molecules, wherein the on-line course development server is configured to establish a web page for each learning object in the defined one or more learning molecules, and wherein the course compiler is configured to compile the web pages into a finished web-based, on-line course. - View Dependent Claims (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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24-1. The system in claim 23, wherein the on-line course development server is configured to provide the finished web-based, on-line course to the deployment server for access by the client computers.
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31. A software product including memory storing a web-based, online course, comprising:
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a communications software module for communicating with one or more client computers associated with persons taking the web-based, online course, and a presentation software module for storing course web page files, at least one of the web page files including;
a first data structure including a course module comprising learning molecules, each learning molecule defining a course topic around which a learning experience is organized and including one or more learning objects, wherein each learning molecule has an associated hyperlink and each learning object has an associated hyperlink, and a second data structure including display information corresponding to a selected learning molecule or learning object. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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