DYNAMIC CONTENT MANIPULATION ENGINE

• US 20150243180A1
• Filed: 05/07/2015
• Published: 08/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2014
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Pearson Education Incorporated (Pearson plc)
• Original Assignee: Pearson Education Incorporated (Pearson plc)
• Inventors: Kim, Brom, Krieg, James
• Application Number:
  US14/706,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20150243180A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/08 providing for individual presentation of information to a plurality of student stations
• 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

Abstract

A content delivery system is disclosed herein. The content delivery system includes a content management server, a survey server, and a database server that are communicatingly connected with a plurality of user devices. The database server includes a plurality of databases that are organized in a tiered memory such that prioritized data is placed in memory tier having faster components and non-prioritized data is placed in a memory tier having relatively slower components. The content distribution system can generate an evaluation and evaluation data by identifying a cohort for receipt of the evaluation, compiling the evaluation, and receiving evaluation results.

Claims

1. A system for creating a virtual classroom for the high-speed generation of evaluation data, the system comprising:

a supervisor device connected to a plurality of user devices via a local communications network to form a virtual classroom, wherein the supervisor device is configured to;

identify a survey comprising a plurality of questions;

identify a survey group for receipt of the survey, wherein the survey group comprises one or several student users of the user devices selected to complete the survey;

provide the survey to the user devices associated with the one or several student users of the survey group;

receive survey data from the user devices associated with the one or several student users of the survey group; and

segregate the survey data into a first data portion designated for real-time analysis and a second data portion designated for non-real-time analysis;

providing the first data portion and the second data portion to the survey server; and

generate an analysis report based on the first data portion.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the analysis report comprises the aggregation of the survey data and results of the analysis of the survey data.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the supervisor device is configured to generate a change report, wherein the change report identifies a deficiency and contains a proposed remedy for the deficiency.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein supervisor device is configured to provide the change report to a user of the supervisor device.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the supervisor device is further configured to select the survey group from a group of students in a course.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein identifying the survey group from the group of students in the course comprises:

retrieving student data for the group of students in the course, wherein the student data uniquely identifies each of group of students in the course;

retrieving academic performance information from a database, wherein the academic performance information identifies the academic performance of the students in the course;

retrieving learning information from the user profile database, wherein the learning information identifies one or several learning styles for some of the group of students in the course;

retrieving feedback performance information, wherein the feedback performance information indicates the usefulness of surveys previously completed by the students in the course;

retrieving selection parameters, wherein the selection parameters identify a criteria for inclusion of one of the students in the course in a survey group, wherein the survey group is selected to complete a survey;

comparing at least one of the student data, the academic performance information, the learning information, and the feedback performance information to the selection criteria;

identifying the survey group based on the comparison of the at least one of the student data, the academic performance information, the learning information, and the feedback performance information to the selection criteria.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein identifying the survey comprises receiving data comprising the survey from the survey server.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein identifying the survey group comprises receiving information identifying the survey group from the survey server.

9. A system for creating a virtual classroom for the high-speed generation of evaluation data, the system comprising:

a tiered memory comprising hardware forming;

a first tier; and

a second tier, wherein the second tier comprises relatively slower hardware than the first tier;

a database stored in the tiered memory, the database comprising a survey database comprising a first database portion located on the first tier, and a second database portion located on the second tier, wherein the first database portion comprises data received in response to a survey and wherein the second database portion comprises data used in creating the survey; and

a processor configured to;

select the survey group from a group of students in a course;

provide identification of the survey group to a supervisor device, wherein the supervisor device connected to a plurality of user devices via a local communications network to form a virtual classroom;

generate a survey comprising a plurality of questions, wherein generating the survey comprises retrieving at least one question from the memory;

providing the survey to the supervisor device;

receiving survey data from the supervisor device; and

providing an analysis report to a user.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the received survey data comprises a first data portion designated for real-time analysis and a second data portion designated for non-real-time analysis.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to store the first data portion in the first tier of the tiered memory, and wherein the processor is configured to store the second data portion in the second tier of the tiered memory.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein selecting the survey group comprises:

retrieving student data for the group of students in the course, wherein the student data uniquely identifies each of group of students in the course;

retrieving academic performance information from a database, wherein the academic performance information identifies the academic performance of the students in the course;

retrieving learning information from the user profile database, wherein the learning information identifies one or several learning styles for some of the group of students in the course;

retrieving feedback performance information, wherein the feedback performance information indicates the usefulness of surveys previously completed by the students in the course;

retrieving selection parameters, wherein the selection parameters identify a criteria for inclusion of one of the students in the course in a survey group, wherein the survey group is selected to complete a survey;

comparing at least one of the student data, the academic performance information, the learning information, and the feedback performance information to the selection criteria;

identifying the survey group based on the comparison of the at least one of the student data, the academic performance information, the learning information, and the feedback performance information to the selection criteria.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the analysis report comprises the aggregation of the survey data and results of the analysis of the survey data.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to generate a change report, wherein the change report identifies a deficiency and contains a proposed remedy for the deficiency.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the first tier comprises first memory components and the second tier comprises second memory components, wherein the first memory components are relatively faster than the second memory components.