Abstract: In a method for presenting questions by a host computer receiving questions from users, a question most suitable to an user can be presented. In an education system wherein plurality of students' personal computers PC are connected to an education center through a network, at the time of the FAQ search from a student, a plurality of FAQ questions are presented in the order appropriate to the student, by matching the FAQ level and FAQ keywords to the student's level and the keywords learned by the student. The student can easily select a question compatible with his/her own question, from the presented questions.

Abstract: A system, method and computer program product are provided for giving feedback in an educational environment using networked devices. Initially, an image stimulus is displayed to a plurality of individual group members regarding material being presented by a group leader utilizing a plurality of networked devices operated by the group members. Thereafter, feedback is received from the individual group members in response to the image stimulus utilizing the networked devices. The feedback is then aggregated after which the aggregated feedback is transmitted to the networked device operated by the group leader. Such aggregated feedback reflects the feedback received from each of the individual group members for allowing the group leader to view the aggregated feedback.

Abstract: A reflective analysis methodology based upon an interactive, dynamic questioning procedure that implements reflective practices of individual learners. Comprehensive educational activities are designed to model cognitive behaviors of successful students. During interactive diagnostic testing, the learner is asked to reflect on the degree of certainty for each of his answers. After completing the diagnostic test, reflective questions are posed specifically responsive to the learner's answers to selected items. This series of reflective questions is designed to cause the student to search for patterns, clues, and problem-solving strategies related to the specific content being studied. In so doing, thinking behaviors that the student has used or should have used are analyzed, and concomitantly constructs strategic modeling from a database of comprehensive instructional activities for addressing a given concept or skill in the future.

Abstract: A learner clicks “Understood” button when he or she could understand a learning material or clicks “Not Understood” button when he or she could not understand. When the “Not Understood” button is clicked, the learning server machine transmits an explanation choice information to display a Web page including a knowledge tree that shows a structure of the learning material. The Web page contains headings of explanations and choosing ratios as end-nodes of the knowledge tree. The explanation describes the learning material in detail. The choosing ratio is a ratio of each of the explanations chosen by learners who attended the same lecture using the same learning material.

Abstract: A web-based mission certification quiz for educating various persons involved in a fundraising campaign is disclosed. A web-based method for educating solicitors, donors, participants and others involved in a fundraising campaign about the campaign's mission includes providing, on a website, information about the campaign's mission, taking, on the website, a mission certification quiz by answering one or more questions, wherein the questions are designed to test a participant's knowledge about the campaign's mission. The method further includes determining a final score based on the number of correct answers, and creating a mission certificate on the website based on the final score.

Abstract: A network-based educational system. Lessons for a course are received from an instructor in an ordinary word-processor format. The invention converts the lessons into HTML format, or other format suitable to the network being used. The converted lessons are made available to students over the network. Provision is made for administering examinations over the network, and making statistical information available to administrators of the system.

Abstract: A Consolidated Online Assessment System (COLA System) that creates, manipulates, and distributes an objected-oriented paradigm that represents the scoring and related activities as a unified and integrated family of loosely coupled objects, most notably a “Case” representing a state-machine that replaces the constructed response from the test taker as the unit of work. The Scoring Model and associated Properties that encapsulate the business rules associated with what actions are appropriate or required for a unit of work and the Responses to the unit of work which represent the test-taker-contributed content (e.g., essays or other text-based responses, audio responses, digitized video responses, scanned images, diagrams, lessons plans, etc.) and ties that content to its creator are linked to a Distinct Scorable Unit (DSU) which represents a tree-based mechanism that connects and provides inheritability for the other primary system objects.

Abstract: A computer network enabled process is devised in which the memory faculties of the contestants are exercised by viewing a sequential set of randomly generated symbol groupings for a first interval of time and thereafter the specific symbols and their groupings are to be recreated on a further screen image in a second interval of time. The symbol groupings may be inscribed on images of the faces of a set of virtual flash cards which are uniformly random. The cards are revealed for the first time interval and following a delay or immediately thereafter the contestants are directed to recreate correctly the symbols and their groupings during the second time interval. The number of symbols groupings correctly recalled comprises the score.

Abstract: A method for providing educational services to at least one user engaging in at least one activity, the method including: enabling an agent to automatically monitor the user's engaging in the at least one activity; detecting an occurrence of at least one criteria using the enabled agent; automatically and temporarily interrupting the engaging in the at least one activity using the enabled agent dependently upon the detecting; automatically presenting educational services to the at least one user using the enabled agent; and, allowing the at least one user to reengage with the activity based upon user interaction with the enabled agent; wherein, the user interaction is associated with the educational services.

Abstract: An interactive tutorial system with operating method being capable of mounting in a web server is disclosed. When commands input in clients by customers are transferred to the web server for interpreting, assignments such as tutorial interfaces, courses, review intervals, or even examination questions are then provided by the server according to the commands. The disclosed system and method permits customers to get into a custom-made or a review mode for design/assign and review, respectively. The customers may assign tutorial interfaces, courses, and review intervals in the custom-made mode and study courses or receive testing via examination questions according to previous determinations in the review mode. Additionally, when customers next time enter the disclosed system, the tutorial interfaces previously assigned will be shown for tutorial purpose.

Abstract: An education set used for education of a work including a series of work steps. The education set includes segment diagrams (105a, 105b, 105c) where work directions for executing the series of work steps, work directions including work guide information from which part of information is excluded, or work guide information are shown and subsegment diagrams (106a, 106b, 106c) where the information excluded from the segment diagrams are shown.

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 (21) and student (23) 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.

Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of learning, retaining and retrieving knowledge and skills includes a learning engine that includes a novel model of human learning that adaptively determines a memory indicator for each item to be learned for each user during all phases of learning, including a short active phase of learning in which items are actively recalled and a long passive phase of learning in which items are passively forgotten. The memory indicator is determined based on a user's actual memory performance during the short-term active phase of learning and is accurately predicted based on mathematical modeling during the long-term passive phase of learning. The learning model makes use of a target level and an alert level of memory performance for each item of information for each user and the learning engine schedules presentation of items for review or study based on the user's performance with respect to the target and alert levels.

Abstract: Computer implemented training exercises present stimuli to a user and receive responses by the user to the stimuli. The stimuli are specifically selected to challenge and improve a cognitive ability of the user, e.g., the ability to perceive and understand spoken language. As a result, the stimuli cannot be changed or adapted to motivate the user through entertainment. Motivation is therefore provided by periodic reward animations which include persistent plots and characters. Progress indicators represent progress toward reward animations and represent such progression with smooth, entertaining progress animations. Randomly appearing animations and variations in rewards and immediate feedback add to the surprise and curiosity of the user and motivate further correct responses to see further random animations and variations. Progress indicators also represent a relation between the number of steps taking toward completion of a task and a maximum number of steps which should be needed to complete the task.

Abstract: A correction support system enabling transmitting and receiving of a handwritten answer from a student, support for a corrector, and transmitting to and receiving by the student of a correction result is provided.

Abstract: A question generation means is developed for intelligent tutors wherein a question menu having dynamic questions is capable of being displayed after each step of a problem. The generated question set contains both elementary and advanced questions and changes after each step is performed, thereby enhancing the potential that a student using the tutorial understands every aspect of a problem.

Abstract: A user inputs the conclusion of a paper using a client device. A server device asks the user a question about a reason to support the inputted conclusion, and the user answers the question using the client device. If the answer is not self-evident, the server device treats the received answer as a new assertion and asks the user a question about a reason to support the new assertion. The server device repeats questions until all reasons inputted by the user become self-evident. The server device displays a logical structure of the paper which indicates a logic of the paper based on the assertion and reason given by the user.

Abstract: A vocabulary teaching aid system generally includes a computer that is operably connected to a video monitor and one or more user-interactive peripherals, e.g., keyboard or mouse. The computer operates under direction of a program whose directions include providing an interactive screen presentation on the video monitor, providing for selection of a desired vocabulary word from the screen presentation through use of the user-interactive peripheral, and presenting an example of usage of the selected vocabulary word on the video monitor.

Abstract: A multimedia teaching system and method incorporates portable electronic textbooks, connected in a seamless and secure fashion to supplementary materials, for example on the Web or an intranet. Instructors identify student mistakes as they are being made and direct students to supplementary material. Real-time two-way communication between student and instructor is initiated by both the student and the instructor.

Abstract: The education intermediary system and method for facilitating an interested learner to have a worldwide choice of an instructor who is best matched with his expectations are disclosed. The education intermediary system comprises a first database and a first processing means. The first database contains data of a plurality of instructors. The first processing means receives a first set of data inputted by an interested learner and, based on selection criteria containing the first set of data, selects from the first database an instructor who is best matched with the selection criteria, and provides from the first database at least part of the data of the selected instructor to the interested learner.

Abstract: Computer implemented training exercises present stimuli to a user and receive responses by the user to the stimuli. The stimuli are specifically selected to challenge and improve a cognitive ability of the user, e.g., the ability to perceive and understand spoken language. As a result, the stimuli cannot be changed or adapted to motivate the user through entertainment. Motivation is therefore provided by periodic reward animations which include persistent plots and characters. Progress indicators represent progress toward reward animations and represent such progression with smooth, entertaining progress animations. Randomly appearing animations and variations in rewards and immediate feedback add to the surprise and curiosity of the user and motivate further correct responses to see further random animations and variations. Progress indicators,also represent a relation between the number of steps taking toward completion of a task and a maximum number of steps which should be needed to complete the task.

Abstract: A user inputs the conclusion of a paper using a client device. A server device asks the user a question about a reason to support the inputted conclusion, and the user answers the question using the client device. If the answer is not self-evident, the server device treats the received answer as a new assertion and asks the user a question about a reason to support the new assertion. The server device repeats questions until all reasons inputted by the user become self-evident. The server device displays a logical structure of the paper which indicates a logic of the paper based on the assertion and reason given by the user.

Abstract: A method of and system of creating, delivering, and administering training materials, The system permits rapid development of large amounts of interactive content without requiring authoring experts. The content is deliverable via a client-server or Application Service Provider environment, such as the Internet. Content teaches skills necessary to perform a job. The system provides administrative management of the lerning process. In one embodiment, the invention teaches a set of skills by exposing candidates to enough realistic examples for them to begin recognizing the patterns involved, and by allowing them to participate in simulations of the environment. Embodiments of the invention employ a conversational technique for teaching particular skills, simulating an apprentice-mentor relationship. Some embodiments allow for evaluating the learner's proficiency or understanding of the content.

Abstract: A method of classifying an individual's personal preference for an image, comprising: viewing an image for a period of time; and ranking the image on a scale extending between a “detached” feeling and an “attached” feeling, where “detached” is a feeling of not being able to personally connect to the object or situation depicted in the image, and “attached” is a feeling of a personal connection to the object or situation depicted in their image.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus embodying techniques useful in testing students for mastery of educational topics. A plurality of fact elements are accessed and a first fact element is presented in a first semantic format, a first response is received to the fact element in the first semantic format, the first fact element is presented in a second semantic format, and a second response is received to the fact element in the second semantic format. In another aspect, the techniques iteratively present a plurality of fact elements in a plurality of different question formats, and also presents a memory aid. A memory aid may be presented with the fact element.

Abstract: The present invention is a system and method of interactive multimedia teaching and learning, through the use of audiovisual presentations. The invention provides a computer based multimedia presentation which may include pictures, sound, graphics and text to provide a trainee with a presentation regarding the performance of an occupational skill.

Abstract: A computerized learning approach that enables a user to improve their performance on multiple-choice exams is disclosed. Although the learning approach includes various aspects and implementations, in general, the invention forces test-takers to practice their examination skills and subject matter knowledge in a systematic way. The systematic way forces the users to follow a proven problem-solving approach designed to improve their performance. The invention provides important performance feedback to user's, for example, elapsed time per question and percentage of correctly answered questions. The invention can also pinpoint for the user the substantive areas of the exam which the user is either weak or strong. Further, the invention is able to assist the user in predicting his/her eventual score.

Abstract: A method for registering students in courses and generating, collecting, processing and reporting student performance is provided. The process involves the use of a database including information related to institutions, the courses they offer and their faculty to register students for courses periodically inputting student performance data into the database and using the database to analyze the data and provide periodic reports related to student performance.

Abstract: A method and system for performing constructive, modality-focused learning, includes the steps of storing a collection of multi-media content segments in a database, the multimedia content having an associated learning modality tag profile. The invention then assigns a learning modality proclivity profile to a learner for reflecting the learning modality proclivity demonstrated by the learner. The learner is presented for selection by the learner the collection of multi-media content segments for responding to said constructive learning challenge. The system presents to the learner a constructive learning challenge, the constructive learning challenge formed so as to demonstrate the accomplishment of predetermined learning objectives and require the learner to construct a result.

Abstract: A method and a system to teach a user a subject based on his questions. The system allows the user to control his learning process, and helps to fill in gaps of misunderstanding in the subject. In one embodiment, the system, including a database, presents study materials on the subject to the user. After working on the presented materials, the user enters his question into the system, which generates an answer to the question, and presents it to him. Then the system compares the question with one or more questions previously entered by the user to determine his understanding level in the subject. Based on the determination, the system may present to the user appropriate study materials. The user typically asks more than one question, and the process of answering his question by the system repeats.

Abstract: A system is provided for utilizing educational materials. The system has a registration part for prompting to input at least one code (such as a subject code for expressing a subject of an educational material) to store said educational material with said inputted code in an educational material database, a code receiving part for receiving code inputted by a developer or a user, and an educational material transmitting part for reading out an educational material corresponding to said received code from a database in accordance with the received code to transmit the educational material to the developer or the user.

Abstract: A computer-based fully customizable training system for companies and organizations that includes personalized training modules incorporating employee information within the training module. The system provides authorized company representatives the ability to edit and/or augment the training content from a web browser according to the company's specific needs. Online, user-friendly training is provided in an educational and enjoyable format. With this system, an organization's representative(s) may create versions of the training modules specifically for employees of that organization. A further advantage is a cost-effective training program that is significantly less expensive than printed manuals, videos, CD-ROMs, etc.

Abstract: A method and system for computer instruction is provided. The method includes displaying a question to a user. Subsequently, a list of possible answers is displayed to the user in response to an action taken by the user. The user can then select those answers that the user believes is the correct answer(s) to the question.

Abstract: A method and system for assessing educator/student skills, managing the teaching, evaluating, verifying, and reporting of an instructional segment to a given user accessing the instructional segment via a computer system are disclosed. The system for skills assessment and knowledge, managing the instructional segment and providing the verification, evaluation, teaching, and reporting of the user's activity with the instructional segment is implemented within a computer system, typically a network connected system that has access to the Internet. The managing system includes means for streaming or broadcasting the instructional segment to the user for review by the user, means for evaluating the user's comprehension of the instructional segment, means for verifying whether the user has completed or accessed the instructional segment, and means for reporting the user's evaluation results of the instructional segment to an administrator or administrators.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and apparatus providing a self-directed online interactive experience, such as a learning experience or a game playing experience, by multiple participant users on user general purpose computers that are coupled to a global computer network. A host computer system is also coupled to the network and is provided with a storage medium storing a database of interactive experiences. The host computer system is programmed for multithreaded access of the host computer database whereby multiple participant users may simultaneously access and participate in the dynamically stored interactive experiences. The host computer system is further programmed for providing navigation capabilities in the host computer system whereby a participant user may selectively navigate the host learning management system.

Abstract: A tutorial method for teaching the scoring of open-ended questions holistically includes displaying a student response to a scorer and permitting the scorer to access a rubric containing the rules for scoring that response. The scorer can choose a display form from a handwritten form and a typed text form that retains and originally present errors. Following the scorer's having entered a score, a model score is displayed so that a scoring efficacy may be determined. Annotations prepared by expert scorers may be accessed to enhance the learning process. In addition, a running correlation between the model and entered scores is calculated and displayed for the scorer over a tutorial session that includes attempts at scoring different responses. The system includes a processor, a workstation, and software for performing the above-described method.

Abstract: Computer assisted instructional schemes have only begun to exploit the potential of client-server systems and networking technologies. Client systems, running under sophisticated operating systems, can support advanced object based software applications, including high speed graphics, animation and audio output. At the other end, servers can store gigabytes of data and programs at central or distributed locations at quite reasonable cost. Object oriented database systems have been developed to store structured data on servers. The Internet has emerged as a means of providing an inexpensive means of connecting computers to provide effective communications and access to information and other resources such as software.

Abstract: An apparatus and a system to teach a user a subject based on his questions. The system allows the user to control his learning process, and helps to fill in gaps of misunderstanding in the subject. In one embodiment, the system, including a database, presents study materials on the subject to the user. After working on the presented materials, the user enters his question into the system, which generates an answer to the question, and presents it to him. Then the system compares the question with one or more questions previously entered by the user to determine his understanding level in the subject. Based on the determination, the system may present to the user appropriate study materials. The user typically asks more than one question, and the process of answering his question by the system repeats.

Abstract: A method for testing a working memory of a subject includes the steps of presenting to a subject a first representation of a plurality of items and asking the subject to select a first item from the first representation. Next the subject is presented with a second representation of the plurality of items and is asked to select a second item from the second representation, the second item different from the first item. These steps test a subject's ability to select a different item from a plurality thereof, a first type of information. As a next aspect of the test the subject is asked to recall an order of the selected items. This step requires the subject to track the order of selection, another type of information. This juxtaposition of testing aspects increases the working memory load on the subject.

Abstract: A system where a child or other individual arranges one or more computer-recognizable characters on a working platform to spell words or provide a mathematical result in response to computer generated questions or prompts, the system then indicating whether the words or mathematical result is correct.

Abstract: A methodology in which a learner-constructed response is provided in answer to a question presented by the system, the response being evaluated by comparison with pre-defined expected responses and, based upon the evaluation, the system determining whether to proceed to another question or to offer remedial feedback. Such a learner-constructed response based evaluation methodology greatly reduces the potential for “guess-work” based correct responses and improves the training process through remedial feedback and advancement upon demonstration of knowledge.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for learning content creation and reutilization with customizable learning object subsets. It is usable in a basic Internet browsing paradigm to successfully gather and distribute intellectual material and products. The present invention determines the appropriate placement and meaning of intellectual content as a component of a paradigm-based learning matrix. The content is sorted into a cluster from a structured collection of four learning objects. These clusters are then stored and retrieved dynamically, based on content expert determination or user need. The method and system can build a personalized learning preference by noting a pattern creativity of the same user employing the system over a period of time.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for computer-aided assessment of organizational process or system. Method and apparatus are adapted to display questions on a computer to an assessor, who then inputs numerical and/or textual inputs relative to the assessor's perception of the process or system. Filtering techniques inhibit entry of unsupported numerical and/or textual inputs which may be untrue and/or exaggerated. Questions used in combination with additional questions provide more accurate assessment of the system or process, where the question combinations already exist in a database. Questions asked may be directed to one or more recognized standards, and duplicative questions from different standards may be omitted. Evaluations of collected information are performed and additional corrective action questions are asked to identify degrees of risk and areas of weakness of the process or system.

Abstract: A system and/or a method for training a patient/learner, the system or method including one or more training modules, each training module involving a concept or operation to be learned, at least one such training module containing an illustration of at least a part of the concept or operation and including the presentation to the patient/learner of the illustration of a training module, and the presentation to the patient/learner of the concept or the operation; and the demonstration by the patient/learner of the concept or the operation. A system or method of this invention may particularly involve dialysis or peritoneal dialysis patients.

Abstract: The software based interactive system provides accessibility to an institution's own policies via either an internet web site or an intranet home page. Qualified users may search for and access documents related to institution policies for review, including a list of those which the user is required to know. Where required, a test is provided to the user. The responses are scored and the results stored. Administrative users can set and change qualification parameters as to individual, group and/or institution-wide policy access and receive individual, group and/or institution-wide test results. Identification of incomplete, contradictory or obsolete policies, policies awaiting approval, policies due for review and data on user review of policies can be reported.

Abstract: The invention includes a teaching machine that presents questions to the user who responds with answers. Graded interval recall is accomplished by storing the exact time and date when the user learns a correct answer. The machine determines the presentation mode and review schedule for each unit according to the length of real time that has elapsed since the user learns the material. Precise timing is designed to bridge the threshold between short-term and long-term memory by interrupting default sequencing of material to review items at an exact preset interval from the time the user learned the material.

Abstract: A computer-based test creation system and method for generating test items. The test creation process includes creating items in electronic form and allowing access by a plurality of reviewers via a network. The reviewers may review the item for content, fairness and format, and collaborate with each other before indicating that the item is acceptable for inclusion in a test. After the administration of the items to test takers, item performance may be evaluated on-line by reviewing electronic feedback from the administrations and creating electronic evaluation reports. Since the items are created in an electronic form, the items may further include new forms of stimuli such as graphics and multimedia.

Abstract: A learning-support device offers a sufficient learning effect even in a field of learning that sets its goal on mastering a motion itself. A question-screen display part displays a question-screen composed of a question and moving images as choices for an answer. A selection reception part receives a user-selection indicating which of the moving images on the question-screen is selected by a user. A correct/incorrect determination part determines whether the user-selection is correct or incorrect. When the user-selection is determined as correct, a correct-answer-explanation-screen display part displays a correct-answer-explanation-screen including an explanation for the correct answer and the correct moving image. When the user-selection is determined as incorrect, an incorrect-answer-explanation-screen display part displays an incorrect-answer-explanation-screen including an explanation for the incorrect answer and the correct moving image.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for quiz question game play. In order to check the correctness of answers to quiz questions or the like over the media and in events, the correctness of answers given by a participant to questions asked by the organizer is checked. This is done by converting answers into a question-related control data word by automatically allocating a confirmation data word verifying the correctness of the answer given by the participant to the organizer.

Abstract: A system and method for verifying compliance with predetermined examination procedures. The system comprises at least one examination site data processing system comprising a data processing device, a user interface in data communication with the data processing device, and a recording device for recording audio and video information about the examination site and a user, and a central data processor in data communication with the data processing device of the examination site data processing system. The central data processor is configured to correlate video and audio data received from the examination site data processing device with user data inputted into the user interface in order to determine whether the user is complying with predetermined examination procedures.