System and method for recording teacher notes during a learning session

• US 6,795,684 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2003
• Issued: 09/21/2004
• 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:
  US10/354,993
• Publication Number:
  US 20030194688A1
• Time in Patent Office: 599 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, 434/710, 434/1
• US Class Current: 434/362
• 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 conducting a learning session between a teacher and student over a network comprising:

creating a learning session between a teacher and a student that has a student profile within the network;

generating a teacher workbook at a teacher workstation; and

using the teacher workbook for storing teacher notes taken during the learning session, said teacher notes being stored and associated with the student profile for use at a later time.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying an instructional material to a student using a student workbook.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the teacher workbook and the student workbook have corresponding interfaces used by the teacher and student, respectively, to interact with each other during the learning session.

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

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the teacher workbook is generated based on a student profile comprising at least one of a student input, an assessed data, a collected student input and a skill gap.

6. The method of claim 2 further comprising concurrently displaying an instructional material on the teacher workbook and the student workbook.

7. The method of claim 2 further comprising forwarding an instructional material to the student workbook in response to a teacher command.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the student workbook is used for at least one of accessing an instructional material, delivering an instructional material to the student workstation, storing a student input, retrieving a student input, forwarding a student input to the teacher workbook and forwarding a student input to a central station.

9. The method of claim 2, 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.

10. The method of claim 2 further comprising concurrently displaying an instructional material on the teacher workbook and the student workbook.

11. A method for conducting a learning session comprising:

establishing a learning session between a teacher and a student that has a student profile within the network;

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

displaying the teacher workbook on a teacher workstation, said teacher workbook having a note section; and

storing teacher notes entered in the note section during the learning session, said teacher notes being associated with the student profile.