Learning support method that updates and transmits learner understanding levels

• US 7,333,769 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2002
• Issued: 02/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Chida, Keiko, Momose, Ryusuke, Kamikawa, Shunichi, Kuzumaki, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Thai; Xuan M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Saadat; Cameron
• Application Number:
  US10/282,131
• Publication Number:
  US 20030165803A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,939 Days
• Field of Search: 434/118, 434/322, 434/350
• US Class Current: 434/350
• 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

Abstract

A client machine receives Web data including a learning material part from a learning server in an e-Learning center to display it as an Web page. The Web page includes a circle graph that represents the intelligibility of all learners who studied the learning material and a pair of bar graphs that represent the ratio of the achievers in the finishers who could not understand the learning material. A learner can make use of the status information represented by the graphs to his or her learning. After attending the learning material part, a learner clicks an “Understood” button or a “Not Understood” button to inform one'"'"'s intelligibility to the learning server.

Claims

1. A learning support method with an on-line computer that holds learning material contents including a plurality of learning pages, a learning history of said learning material contents and intelligibility information corresponding to said respective learning pages, comprising:

transmitting one learning page of said learning material contents to client machines;

updating said intelligibility information when said on-line computer receives an intelligibility declaration with respect to the learning page of said learning material contents transmitted from one of said client machines; and

transmitting the intelligibility declarations of all learners for first through recent pages transmitted according to said updated intelligibility information and said learning history so that a learner has a knowledge of intelligibility status of other learners who attend the same learning material content;

wherein said on-line computer transmits a ratio of the number of learners who cannot understand said learning material content to the number of learners who completed said learning material content in said transmitting the intelligibility declarations by all learners, said ratio being calculated based on said updated intelligibility information and said learning history.

2. A computer-readable storage storing a learning support program for controlling an on-line computer to execute processes of:

storing learning material contents including a plurality of learning pages in a storage;

storing a learning history of said learning material contents in said storage;

storing intelligibility information corresponding to said respective learning pages stored in said storage;

transmitting one of said learning pages stored to client machines;

updating said intelligibility information corresponding to the learning page when said on-line computer receives an intelligibility declaration with respect to the learning page of said learning material contents transmitted from one of said client machines; and

transmitting said intelligibility declarations of all learners for first through recent pages transmitted according to said undated intelligibility information and said learning history stored so that a learner has a knowledge of intelligibility status of other learners who attend the same learning material content;

wherein said intelligibility declarations by the learners represent that the learners cannot understand said learning material content; and

wherein said on-line computer transmits a ratio of the number of learners who cannot understand said learning material content to the number of learners who completed said learning material content.

3. A learning support method, comprising:

receiving intelligibility declarations of a plurality of learners about learning material content;

updating intelligibility information based on the intelligibility declarations received; and

transmitting said updated intelligibility information to a plurality of client machines so that a learner has a knowledge of intelligibility status of other learners who attend the same learning material content;

further comprising calculating and transmitting a ratio of the number of learners who cannot understand said learning material content to the number of learners who completed said learning material content.