Group Learning System
Summary:
This technology, in general, has created a computerized professor that monitors and responds to the learning of students in a virtual classroom as a group. The computerized professor learns from and responds to group dynamics.
Features include:
- Monitor and analyze each student's input while they are learning together.
- Guide a student back to the subject when the student has been distracted for some time.
- Restrict one student from communicating with another student.
- Identify and restrict a student from dominating the group discussion.
- Identify and restrict a student from communicating irrelevant information.
- Identify and restrict a student from disrupting the group discussion.
- Determine if an outsider can study with the group of students.
- Allow existing students to determine if an outsider can join them.
- Help the students to take notes.
Patent Number: 6,029,043 [View Patent PDF]
Date of Patent: Feb 22, 2000
Patent Number: RE38,432 [View Patent PDF]
Date of Patent: Feb 24, 2004
Patent Number: RE39,942 [View Patent PDF]
Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
