Personalized testing of learning application performance in a modular learning system

• US 9,875,663 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Issued: 01/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Monk Akarshala Inc.
• Original Assignee: Monk Akarshala Design Private Limited, Monk Akarshala Inc.
• Inventors: Kapoor, Samridh
• Primary Examiner(s): Gishnock, Nikolai A
• Application Number:
  US14/344,438
• Publication Number:
  US 20140342339A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,959 Days
• Field of Search: 434322, 434323, 434350, 434362
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06311 Scheduling, planning or task assignment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063116 Schedule adjustment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06313 Resource planning in a project environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06314 Calendaring for a resource
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/20 Education
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/06 of the multiple-choice answer-type, i.e. where a given question is provided with a series of answers and a choice has to be made from the answers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A modular learning system is provided for providing learning users a plurality of learning applications. On occasion, learning users may wish to develop personalized testing systems to determine the learning user'"'"'s progress. In the modular learning system, individual learning applications are selected by the learning users. The learning applications include learning content and are provided to the user with a learning facility, tutoring user, and other learning services. The personalized testing systems allows learning users to construct personalized testing for the user comprised of particular learning applications for performance by the learning user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for personalized testing of a learning application, the method comprising:

receiving over the Internet a trial scheduling request from a user device operated by the learning user, the trial scheduling request being a request from the learning user to schedule a trial performance for testing the performance of the learning user of a learning application on the user device operated by the learning user, the trial performance occurring at a controlled learning facility that offers trial performances of learning applications stored in a learning application database;

determining the learning application of the learning applications to be practiced or performed by the learning user based on the trial scheduling request by receiving learning applications for testing from an electronic trial management interface on the user device operated by the learning user;

generating a trial performance item for the learning user'"'"'s trial scheduling request, the trial performance item including the determined learning application to be practiced or performed by the learning user;

determining a nature of a performance review based on the trial scheduling request by accessing scoring metrics application metadata of the determined learning application;

determining compatibility of the determined learning application to the controlled learning facility;

responsive to determining that the determined learning application can be performed at the controlled learning facility, scheduling a trial performance of the determined learning application at the controlled learning facility;

receiving a trial performance request for the determined learning application from the learning user through an electronic trial management interface on the user device operated by the learning user over the Internet;

determining availability of at least the controlled learning facility for the trial performance request;

responsive to determining that the controlled learning facility is available for the trial performance request, granting the trial performance request, when services are available at at least the controlled learning facility for the trial performance request, to the learning user via the trial management interface and to a tutoring user through a tutoring management interface operating an authorized user device, the tutoring user tutoring the learning user in the performance or practice of the trial performance of the trial performance request;

displaying by an electronic interface generator on a device screen of the authorized user device operated by the tutoring user, a performance review of the learning application performed by the learning user, the performance review including an associated manual score or review data based on the scoring metrics application metadata of the determined learning application and obtained by the performance or practice of the trial performance of the determined learning application by the learning user;

receiving manual score or review data inputted from the tutoring user via the authorized user device for at least some of the scoring metrics in the scoring metrics application metadata of the determined learning application performed by the learning user over the Internet;

storing the manual score or review data as updated trial performance score and review data associated with the learning user; and

updating a learning user profile associated with the learning user to reflect the updated trial performance score and review data.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the controlled learning facility is selected from a pre-defined set of controlled learning facilities.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the trial scheduling request designates a usage request for a plurality of learning applications.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the tutoring user is selected from one or more tutoring users who have not previously tutored the learning user.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having tangibly embodied thereon a program of instructions executable by a processor for performing steps comprising:

receiving a trial scheduling request over the Internet from a user device operated by a learning user, the trial scheduling request being a request from the learning user to schedule a trial performance for testing the performance of the learning user of a learning application on the user device operated by the learning user, the trial performance occurring at a controlled learning facility that offers trial performances of learning applications stored in a learning application database;

determining the learning application of the learning application to be practiced or performed by the learning user based on the trial scheduling request by receiving learning applications for testing from an electronic trial management interface on the user device operated by the learning user;

generating a trial performance item for the learning user'"'"'s trial scheduling request, the trial performance item including the determined learning application to be practiced or performed by the learning user;

determining a nature of a performance review based on the trial scheduling request by accessing scoring metrics application metadata of the determined learning application;

determining compatibility of the determined learning application to a controlled learning facility;

responsive to determining that the determined learning application can be performed at the controlled learning facility, scheduling a trial performance of the learning application at the controlled learning facility;

receiving a trial performance request for the determined learning application from the learning user through an electronic trial management interface on the user device operated by the learning user over the Internet;

determining availability of at least the controlled learning facility for the trial performance request;

responsive to determining that the controlled learning facility is available for the trial performance request, granting the trial performance request when the services are available at at least the controlled learning facility for the trial performance request, to the learning user via the trial management interface and to a tutoring user through a tutoring management interface operating an authorized user device, the tutoring user tutoring the learning user in the performance or practice of the trial performance of the trial performance request;

displaying by an electronic interface generator on a device screen of the authorized user device operated by the tutoring user, a performance review of the learning application performed by the learning user, the performance review including an associated manual score or review data based on the scoring metrics application metadata of the determined learning application and obtained by the performance or practice of the trial performance of the determined learning application by the learning user;

receiving manual score or review data inputted from the tutoring user via the authorized user device for at least some of the scoring metrics in the scoring metrics application metadata of the determined learning application performed by the learning user over the Internet;

storing the manual score or review data as updated trial performance score and review data associated with the learning user; and

updating a learning user profile associated with the learning user to reflect the updated trial performance score and review data.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the controlled learning facility is selected from a pre-defined set of controlled learning facilities.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the trial scheduling request designates usage request for a plurality of learning applications.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5, wherein the tutoring user is selected from one or more tutoring users who have not previously tutored the learning user.

9. An apparatus comprising:

a network interface;

a processor coupled to the network interface;

a memory coupled to the processor, including instructions configured for execution on the processor comprising steps for;

receiving a trial scheduling request over the Internet from a user device operated by a learning user, the trial scheduling request being a request from the learning user to schedule a trial performance for testing the performance of the learning user of a learning application on the user device operated by the learning user, the trial performance occurring at a controlled learning facility that offers trial performances of learning applications stored in a learning application database;

determining the learning application of the learning application to be practiced or performed by the learning user based on the trial scheduling request by receiving learning applications for testing from an electronic trial management interface on the user device operated by the learning user;

generating a trial performance item for the learning user'"'"'s trial scheduling request, the trial performance item including the determined learning application to be practiced or performed by the learning user;

determining a nature of a performance review based on the trial scheduling request by accessing scoring metrics application metadata of the determined learning application;

determining compatibility of the determined learning application to a controlled learning facility;

responsive to determining that the determined learning application can be performed at the controlled learning facility, scheduling a trial performance of the learning application at the controlled learning facility;

receiving a trial performance request for the determined learning application from the learning user through an electronic trial management interface on the user device operated by the learning user over the Internet;

determining availability of at least the controlled learning facility for the trial performance request;

responsive to determining that the controlled learning facility is available for the trial performance request, granting the trial performance request when the services are available at at least the controlled learning facility for the trial performance request, to the learning user via the trial management interface and to a tutoring user through a tutoring management interface operating an authorized user device, the tutoring user tutoring the learning user in the performance or practice of the trial performance of the trial performance request;

displaying by an electronic interface generator on a device screen of the authorized user device operated by the tutoring user, a performance review of the learning application performed by the learning user, the performance review including an associated manual score or review data based on the scoring metrics application metadata of the determined learning application and obtained by the performance or practice of the trial performance of the determined learning application by the learning user;

receiving manual score or review data inputted from the tutoring user via the authorized user device for at least some of the scoring metrics in the scoring metrics application metadata of the determined learning application performed by the learning user over the Internet;

storing the manual score or review data as updated trial performance score and review data associated with the learning user; and

updating a learning user profile associated with the learning user to reflect the updated trial performance score and review data.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the controlled learning facility is selected from a set of predefined controlled learning facilities.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the trial scheduling request designates usage request for a plurality of learning applications.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the tutoring user is selected from one or more tutoring users who have not previously tutored the learning user.