System and method for content management in a distributed learning system

• US 20060068367A1
• Filed: 08/22/2005
• Published: 03/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Helen Meriwether Parke, Jeffrey Scott Wojnar, Rodney J. Hing, Sherman Q. Mohler
• Original Assignee: Helen Meriwether Parke, Jeffrey Scott Wojnar, Rodney J. Hing, Sherman Q. Mohler
• Inventors: Mohler, Sherman Q., Hing, Rodney J., Parke, Helen Meriwether, Wojnar, Jeffrey Scott
• Application Number:
  US11/209,196
• Publication Number:
  US 20060068367A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/362
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

An online learning system for teaching students is described. One feature of the system is the capability of linking course content that was created for a first course into the content of a second course. Authors of course material can thereby use material that was already created, and is being updated, by a different author within their own courses.

Claims

1. An online teaching system, comprising:

a first online course, wherein said course comprises first data objects comprising first course material to be taught to a first student; and

a second online course, wherein said course comprises second data objects comprising second course material to be taught to a second student, and wherein said second online course further comprises a data link to one or more of said first data objects.

2. The online teaching system of claim 1, wherein said online teaching system is an Internet based online teaching system.

3. The online teaching system of claim 1, wherein said first data objects are Extensible Markup Language (XML) data objects.

4. The online teaching system of claim 1, wherein said second data objects are Extensible Markup Language (XML) data objects.

5. The online teaching system of claim 1, wherein said data link comprises a data pointer.

6. The online teaching system of claim 1, wherein said data link comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

7. The online teaching system of claim 1, wherein said online teaching system dynamically renders said first course material to said first student.

8. The online teaching system of claim 1, wherein said online teaching system dynamically renders said second course material to said second student.

9. The online teaching system of claim 1, wherein said first and second data objects comprise data links to electronic photographs, text, videos or graphical images.

10. The online teaching system of claim 1, wherein said first and second data objects comprise electronic photographs, text, videos or graphical images.

11. A method of presenting course material to a student, comprising:

providing a first teaching course to a first student, wherein said first teaching course comprises first data objects comprising course material; and

providing a second teaching course to a second student, wherein said second teaching course comprises second data objects comprising course material, and wherein said second teaching course further comprises a data link to said first data objects.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said providing a first teaching course comprises dynamically rendering course material to a browser on said first student'"'"'s computer.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein said providing a second teaching course comprises dynamically rendering course material to a browser on said second student'"'"'s computer.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein said first data objects and said second data objects comprise data links to electronic photographs, videos, text or graphical images.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein said first data objects and said second data objects comprise electronic photographs, videos, text or graphical images.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein said first data objects comprise Extensible Markup Language (XML) data objects.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein said second data objects comprise Extensible Markup Language (XML) data objects.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein said data link comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

19. An online teaching system configured to allow cross course linking between courses, comprising:

means for providing a first teaching course to a first student, wherein said first teaching course comprises first data objects comprising course material; and

means for providing a second teaching course to a second student, wherein said second teaching course comprises second data objects comprising course material, and wherein said second teaching course further comprises a data link to said first data objects.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein said means for providing a first teaching course comprises a dynamic delivery system configured to dynamically render said first teaching course to a browser on said first student'"'"'s computer.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein said means for providing a second teaching course comprises a dynamic delivery system configured to dynamically render said second teaching course to a browser on said second student'"'"'s computer.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein said data link comprises a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).