Abstract: An online learning system includes a student engine, a courses engine and a reports engine. The student engine processes identification information for students registered in an online university. The courses engine includes a competencies engine, a challenges engine and a milestones engine. The competencies engine organizes online courses into topics of study. The challenges engine provides one or more series of open-ended questions on the topics of study. The milestones engine provides a series of multiple choice questions on the topics of study. The multiple choice questions are only accessible when a percentage of the open-ended questions in each of the series of open-ended questions are answered correctly. The reports engine provides data relating to student performance.

Abstract: A teaching and learning system includes a data store and a server computing device. The server computing device is programmed to retrieve digital data from the data store and to generate and transfer digital data across a network to user computing devices associated with users. The digital data is configured to be interpreted by the user computing devices to display to the users an interactive web site, the web site including a plurality of learning packets. Each learning packet includes a title and multiple content sections. The title includes a text description of a topic associated with an academic topic. The multiple content sections include at least one content window, where each content window includes content having a content type selected by the author of the learning packet from a plurality of different available content types. The content of each content section includes information to teach the user about the topic identified in the title.