Teacher assignment based on student/teacher ratios

• US 20080064018A1
• Filed: 04/02/2007
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Educate Online Technology LLC
• Original Assignee: Educate Online Technology LLC
• Inventors: Griffin, Royia
• Granted Patent: US 8,170,465 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/322
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063112 Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/102 Bill distribution or payments
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/14 specially adapted for billing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/20 Education
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/08 providing for individual presentation of information to a plurality of student stations
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F

Abstract

A system for assigning one or more teachers for teaching in one or more learning sessions comprises an online learning system having one or more nodes that creates one or more online learning sessions having corresponding student/teacher ratios. A scheduling node schedules the one or more teachers for teaching the one or more online learning sessions. A database stores teacher qualification parameters associated with the student/teacher ratio of one or more learning sessions. A processing node adjusts a teacher qualification parameter associated with a teacher based on the number of scheduled learning sessions and corresponding student/teacher ratio of such learning sessions associated with the teacher. The scheduling node schedules the teacher for one or more online learning sessions having a student/teacher ratio that corresponds to the adjusted qualification parameter of the teacher.

Claims

1. A system for assigning one or more teachers for teaching in one or more learning sessions, comprising:

an online learning system having one or more nodes that creates one or more online learning sessions having corresponding student/teacher ratios;

a scheduling node that schedules one or more teachers for teaching one or more online learning sessions;

a database that stores teacher qualification parameters associated with the student/teacher ratio of one or more learning sessions; and

a processing node that adjusts a teacher qualification parameter associated with a teacher based on the number of scheduled learning sessions and corresponding student/teacher ratio of such learning sessions associated with the teacher, wherein the scheduling node schedules the teacher for one or more online learning sessions having a student/teacher ratio that corresponds to the adjusted qualification parameter of the teacher.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the teacher qualification parameter is related to qualitative or qualitative teacher qualification measure.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the quantitative qualification measure related to at least one of learning sessions taught by the teacher or a test score associated with teaching skills.

4. The system of claim 3, the qualitative teacher qualification measure relates to teacher certification or peer review.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein each student/teacher ratio is associated with a corresponding qualification score and wherein the qualification score is associated with a qualification rule for teaching a learning session with a corresponding student/teacher ratio.