Continuity of instruction during a socially distancing event

• US 20140201099A1
• Filed: 03/10/2014
• Published: 07/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Louis Harrison
• Original Assignee: Louis Harrison
• Inventors: Harrison, Louis
• Application Number:
  US13/999,576
• Publication Number:
  US 20140201099A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/326
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/20 Education
• 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 method wherein live, in-person academic coursework that is cancelled for extended periods due to an exigency, for example a natural disaster, pandemic, or other socially distancing event, can be quickly, efficiently, gracefully, and cost-effectively transitioned into an online environment in order to ensure academic continuity by identifying a triggering event whereby in-person academic coursework is cancelled, initiating an academic continuity process, querying a student information system for data, interfacing this student information system data with a learning management system to populate the learning management system, simultaneously scaling the learning management system utilizing a cloud computing infrastructure, and transitioning the cancelled in-person academic coursework to an online environment.

Claims

1. A method for ensuring academic continuity comprising the steps of:

identifying a triggering event whereby in-person academic coursework is cancelled;

initiating an academic continuity process;

querying a student information system for data;

utilizing said student information system data with regard to dynamically provisioning resources and populating a learning management system;

transitioning essentially all of an institution'"'"'s said in-person academic coursework to an online environment facilitated by said learning management system;

authenticating participants; and

,

facilitating access to said online environment by said authenticated participants.

3. A method for ensuring academic continuity as claimed in claim 1 wherein said data from said student information system is data necessary to transition cancelled in-person academic coursework to an online environment further comprising class name, class number, department identification, class time, class daily schedule, class instructor, students enrolled, and e-mail addresses for everyone associated with said class.

4. A method for ensuring academic continuity as claimed in claim 1 wherein said learning management system is a synchronous learning management system.

5. A method for ensuring academic continuity as claimed in claim 1 wherein said learning management system is an asynchronous learning management system.

6. A method for ensuring academic continuity as claimed in claim 1 wherein said learning management system is a scalable learning management system whereby additional loads are accommodated utilizing cloud computing infrastructure means.

7. A method for ensuring academic continuity as claimed in claim 1 wherein said learning management system is a scalable learning management system whereby additional loads are accommodated utilizing distributed computing infrastructure means.

8. A method for ensuring academic continuity as claimed in claim 1 wherein said learning management system is a scalable learning management system whereby additional loads are accommodated utilizing cluster computing infrastructure means.

2. (canceled)

9. A method for ensuring academic continuity under exigent circumstances comprising the steps of:

identifying a triggering event whereby in-person academic coursework is cancelled;

initiating an academic continuity process;

querying a student information system for data;

interfacing said student information system data and a learning management system to populate said learning management system;

simultaneously dynamically provisioning resources and scaling said learning management system utilizing cloud computing infrastructure means;

transitioning essentially all of an institution'"'"'s said in-person academic coursework to an online environment

authenticating participants; and

facilitating access to said online environment by said authenticated participants.

11. A method for ensuring academic continuity under exigent circumstances as claimed in claim 9 wherein said data from said student information system is data necessary to transition cancelled in-person academic coursework to an online environment further comprising class name, class number, department identification, class time, class daily schedule, class instructor, students enrolled, and e-mail addresses for everyone associated with said class.

12. A method for ensuring academic continuity under exigent circumstances as claimed in claim 9 wherein said learning management system is a synchronous learning management system.

13. A method for ensuring academic continuity under exigent circumstances as claimed in claim 9 wherein said learning management system is an asynchronous learning management system.

10. (canceled)

14. A method for ensuring academic continuity under exigent circumstances comprising the steps of:

identifying a triggering event whereby in-person academic coursework is cancelled;

initiating an academic continuity process;

querying a student information system for data;

interfacing said student information system data and a learning management system to populate said learning management system;

simultaneously dynamically provisioning resources and scaling said learning management system utilizing cluster computing infrastructure means; and

,

transitioning essentially all of an institution'"'"'s said in-person academic coursework to an online environment.

15. A method for ensuring academic continuity under exigent circumstances as claimed in claim 14 wherein said data from said student information system is data necessary to transition cancelled in-person academic coursework to an online environment further comprising class name, class number, department identification, class time, class daily schedule, class instructor, students enrolled, and e-mail addresses for everyone associated with said class.

16. A method for ensuring academic continuity under exigent circumstances as claimed in claim 14 wherein said learning management system is a synchronous learning management system.

17. A method for ensuring academic continuity under exigent circumstances as claimed in claim 14 wherein said learning management system is an asynchronous learning management system.

18. A method for ensuring academic continuity under exigent circumstances comprising the steps of identifying a triggering event whereby in-person academic coursework is cancelled;

initiating an academic continuity process;

querying a student information system for data;

interfacing said student information system data and a learning management system to populate said learning management system;

simultaneously dynamically provisioning resources and scaling said learning management system utilizing a cloud computing infrastructure means; and

,

transitioning entire institutional curricula to an online environment.

19. A method for ensuring academic continuity under exigent circumstances as claimed in claim 18 wherein said data from said student information system is data necessary to transition cancelled in-person academic coursework to an online environment further comprising class name, class number, department identification, class time, class daily schedule, class instructor, students enrolled, and e-mail addresses for everyone associated with said class.

20. (canceled)

21. (canceled)