Education and demonstration – Question or problem eliciting response – Response of plural examinees communicated to monitor or...
Reexamination Certificate
1998-10-16
2001-01-23
Cheng, Joe H. (Department: 3712)
Education and demonstration
Question or problem eliciting response
Response of plural examinees communicated to monitor or...
C434S322000, C434S358000, C434S362000, C702S108000, C382S276000, C706S927000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06178308
ABSTRACT:
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A system and method for providing computer-assisted teaching is disclosed. Personal Computers (PCs) are common in today's classroom, but are not available to most K-12 school students for more than special purposes. Paper and pencil are ubiquitous, but do not have the processing flexibility that one associates with PCs. With printers, paper is a computer output medium. With scanners, paper is an input medium. It has been determined that paper can be used more intimately with computer driven processes—playing a role between output and input, supporting work with paper and pencil, while enabling some of the flexibility associated with computer processes. The present invention utilizes various paper based technologies, such as embedded data, paper user interface and intelligent forms in an architecture that supports creation and execution of interactive educational applications and other teaching and student progress reporting tools.
The system of the present invention is generally comprised of one or more application preparation clients for creating teaching applications; a first database for storing educational content; a second database for storing teaching applications; an application server coupled to said first database and said second database, said application server for executing said teaching applications to prepare and process educational materials responsive to said teaching application, wherein said teaching application enables concurrent interactive engagement with multiple students through said educational materials; and a form server coupled to said application server, said form server further coupled to an output device for presenting original educational materials and coupled to an input device for receiving marked educational materials, said form server further for providing said application server with information characterizing said marked educational materials.
The method of the present invention as implemented for a teaching application would generally be comprised of the steps of: generating and printing a first educational material having user markable areas, human readable areas and an encoded data area, said human readable areas having teaching information and instructions and said encoded data area containing information relating to said first educational material; providing said first educational material to a student; said student marking said first educational material in said user markable areas responsive to said teaching information and instructions; inputting said marked first educational material to a form server; identifying a subsequent course of action based on said student markings on said first educational material such as printing out second educational material based on the marks presented on the first educational material. A subsequent or concurrent step may involve collecting information about said students learning progress based on said student annotations on said first educational material or any other educational material provided by said students. A further subsequent step may involve generating further materials based on said collected information and presenting the materials to teachers, parents or school administrators. These materials in paper form may be used as part of an interactive loop for the teacher, parents and school administrators to participate in the educational process.
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Bobrow Daniel G.
Everett John O.
Cheng Joe H.
Domingo Richard B
Xerox Corporation
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