System and method for conducting a learning session using teacher and student workbooks

• US 6,749,434 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2003
• Issued: 06/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Laureate Education Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sylvan Learning
• Inventors: Stuppy, John J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rovnak, John Edmund
• Application Number:
  US10/355,046
• Publication Number:
  US 20030198931A1
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• Field of Search: 434/107, 434/108, 434/109, 434/219, 434/235, 434/236, 434/237, 434/322, 434/323, 434/335, 434/362, 434/350
• US Class Current: 434/322
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• 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 5/14 with provision for individual teacher-student communication
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/04 characterised by modifying the teaching programme in response to a wrong answer, e.g. repeating the question, supplying a further explanation

Abstract

This invention is a computer based system for the assessment, management and instruction of students, and for the delivery of work pages and other instructional materials in the form of electronic student workbooks. The computer based assessment of the student produces a student profile including skill gaps or learning objectives. Teacher (20) and student (22) workstations are networked CPUs with pen-based tablet inputs, and displays network with a central processor (10) and data base. A director workstation may also be networked with the central processor. The central processor generates a teacher workbook either directly or with input from the director workstation. The teacher, or teacher and director together, assemble an electronic student workbook containing instructional materials correlated with the student profile. The system tracks useful data such as instructional material (e.g., textbook pages, work sheets, software, simulations, tests, etc.) delivered to students.

Claims

1. A method for instructing a student comprising:

establishing a learning session between a teacher and a student;

generating a teacher workbook and a student workbook that is different from the teacher workbook,

displaying at least one instructional material on the teacher workbook and the student workbook,

wherein the teacher workbook and the student workbook have corresponding interfaces for use by the teacher and student, respectively, to interact with each other during the learning session.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the learning session uses at least one of a notebook user environment metaphor, a classroom user environment metaphor, and a school house user environment metaphor.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the student workbook is used for at least one of accessing an instructional material, delivering an instructional material to a student workstation, storing a student input, storing a student response, retrieving a student input, forwarding a student input to a teacher workstation and forwarding a student input to a central station.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein an instructional material is displayed concurrently on the teacher workbook and student workbook.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising forwarding an instructional material to the student workbook in response to a teacher command.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein an instructional material is displayed based on a student profile comprising at least one of a stored input, a collected input, a previously assessed data, and a skill gap.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising storing teacher notes taken during the learning session.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising using the teacher workbook to select instructional material during the learning session.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the teacher workbook and the student workbook are generated by running a program supplied from a central station.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein instructional material is supplied from a central database.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising assigning a teacher privilege to the teacher with respect to the student.