SYSTEM FOR MEASURING EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INTERACTIVE ONLINE LEARNING SYSTEM

• US 20180114453A1
• Filed: 12/15/2016
• Published: 04/26/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vedantu Innovations Pvt Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Vedantu Innovations Pvt Ltd.
• Inventors: JAIN, Pulkit, REDDY, Ajith, MALLAR, Pranav Ramaraya, KAUL, Namo Narain, PALAMAKULA, Mehar Chandra
• Granted Patent: US 10,325,510 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/065 Combinations of audio and video presentations, e.g. videotapes, videodiscs, television systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/08 providing for individual presentation of information to a plurality of student stations
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/14 with provision for individual teacher-student communication
• 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 interactive system for facilitating interaction between one or more users is provided. The system includes computing devices accessible to several users, including a user interface to enable the user to activate an interaction session amongst a selected set of users; and a plurality of interactive tools to enable each user to communicate with the selected set of users via the user interface. The interactive system includes a session data module to acquire session data from each computing device. The session data module is to acquire session data from each computing device. The interactive system also includes a processing engine to compute an effectiveness score and an engagement score of the interaction session by analyzing the session data. The effectiveness score and the engagement score is continuously computed for a duration and a quality score is calculated as a function of the engagement score and the effectiveness score.

Claims

1. An interactive system for facilitating interaction between one or more users, the interactive system comprising:

a plurality of computing devices;

wherein each of the plurality of computing devices is accessible to a corresponding user and wherein each of the plurality of computing device includes;

a user interface for each user;

wherein the user interface is configured to enable the user to activate an interaction session amongst a selected set of users, and

a plurality of interactive tools coupled to the user interface and configured to enable each user to communicate with the selected set of users via the user interface;

a session data module coupled to the plurality of computing devices and configured to acquire session data from each of the plurality of computing devices; and

a processing engine coupled to the session data module and configured to compute a quality score, wherein the quality score correlates to an effectiveness score and an engagement score;

wherein the effectiveness score and the engagement score are determined by analysing the session data; and

wherein the effectiveness score and the engagement score are continuously computed for a duration of the interaction session.

2. The interactive system of claim 1, wherein the user interface comprises a whiteboard module configured to enable each user to provide written content;

and wherein the written content is viewable to all the users present in the interaction session.

3. The interactive system of claim 2, wherein the session data module further comprises:

an audio data module configured to capture audio data from the plurality of computing devices engaged in the interaction session;

a text capturing module configured to capture written content from the whiteboard module used by the plurality of users; and

a video data module configured to capture video data from the one or more users engaged in the interaction session.

4. The interactive system of claim 2, wherein the written content includes alpha-numeric text data, graphs, figures and scientific notations.

5. The interactive system of claim 1, further comprising a notification module coupled to the plurality of computers and configured to notify the effectiveness score and the engagement score to the plurality of users at regular intervals within the duration of the interaction session.

6. The interactive system of claim 5, wherein the processing engine is further configured to compute a sentiment score by analyzing the video data, audio data and the written content.

7. The interactive system of claim 1 wherein the one or more users comprises at least one teacher and at least one student.

8. The interactive system of claim 2, wherein the whiteboard module further comprises a writing area and a plurality of formatting tools, wherein the formatting tools are configured to facilitate the user to generate the written content on the writing area.

9. The interactive system of claim 1, wherein the processing engine is configured to analyze the written content by calculating a plurality of qualitative parameters associated with each user.

10. The interactive system of claim 9, wherein the processing engine is configured to determine a plurality of handwriting parameters from the written content.

11. The interactive system of claim 1, wherein the processing engine is configured to analyze the audio data by calculating a plurality of audio parameters associated with each user.

12. A system for providing an interactive educational tool, the system comprising:

one or more computing devices coupled together over a network, each of the one or more computing devices including at least one processor and one memory unit, configured to transmit a set of computer-executable instructions to one or more user devices;

wherein the set of computer executable instructions when executed result in;

a student device simulating a first component of an educational interactive session;

a teacher device simulating a second component of, the educational interactive session;

wherein the at least one memory unit is configured to extract and store audio, video and text data from the first component and the second component of the educational interactive session; and

wherein the at least one processor is configured to calculate a quality score based on an engagement score and an effectiveness score;

wherein the engagement score and the effectiveness score is calculated by analyzing the audio, video and the text data.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the one or more user devices comprises mobile device, tablets and computers.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the audio data, video data and the text data is accessible by the one or more users.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the engagement score and the effectiveness score is made available to the one or more users at periodic intervals.